Spatial analysis of damaged heritage houses of worship in the city of Mosul Using geographic information systems techniques

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1 قسم الجغرافية - كلية التربية للعلوم الإنسانية- جامعة الموصل

2 Department of Geography - College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Mosul

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       The spatial analysis of damaged heritage houses of worship in the city of Mosul was studied using geographic information systems techniques. The researcher divided this study into two aspects: the theoretical side of the study, which is the introduction, the research topic, the location of the study area, the research methodology and its approaches, then previous studies that have a direct and indirect relationship to the topic. The study, as for the practical aspect, was represented by a presentation of the geographical distribution of the damaged heritage houses of worship in the city of Mosul using geographic information systems, then a spatial analysis of the damaged heritage places of worship in the city of Mosul, using some spatial analysis tools provided by geographic information systems techniques, such as: Mean Center, Central Feature analysis, (Standard Deviational Ellipse) analysis, Average Nearest Neighbor analysis, in addition to Density analysis, with a display The results of these analyzes are presented in the form of maps and figures showing the distribution and characteristics of the studied phenomenon, in addition to arriving at a set of results and recommendations that were reached through the study

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 32, Issue 61
October (Humanities)
October 2023
Pages 199-240

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