The role of geographic information systems inmonitoring agricultural areas threatened by natural hazards in the province of Driouch (the case of the Ijarmaouas commune)

Abstract

This scientific paper deals with some aspects of the environmental and spatial imbalances that the agricultural activity witnesses in the rural communes affiliated to the province of Driouch in general, and particularly in the Ijarmaouas commune in Boudinar basin, as it is an activity of great importance in the field of study. Through it, we aim at highlighting the most important constraints of this agricultural activity, which depends on the quality and size of the available natural resources, and the extent to which they are affected by natural and human factors. To identify these general shifts, it is necessary to control the knowledge of the characteristics and features of the natural environment in the field of study by analyzing and processing data based on geographic information systems using the “Arc Gis” program and field work, to determine the most important of these risks and their impact on the sustainability of agricultural exploitation in the field studied