Journal Paper

1. "Assessing Edaphic Drivers of Plant Distribution in Contrasting Soil Textures in Arid Environments"
   گلنوش سوارتندرو, Mohammad Jafari, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hosein Azarnivand, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh
   DESERT, Vol. 31, No 1, 2026
2. "Plant diversity of the Lut Desert natural world heritage site: the hottest place on earth"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hasan Yeganeh, Mehran Maghsoudi, Winfried Voigt
   Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, Vol. 10, No 1, pp.328-349, 2026
3. "Assessment of the Climate Variability Effects on Planted Forests (Case study: Dry lands, Semnan Province)"
   Mohsen Abdoulhoseini, Hassan Khosravi, Ali Tavili, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Esmail Heidary alamdarlo
   DESERT, Vol. 30, No 2, 2025
4. "Incorporating climate and land use projections with spatial optimization of best management practices for soil erosion and sediment control in a semi-arid mountainous watershed"
   مرضیه حاجی محمدی, Aliakbar Nazari Samani, Hamidreza Keshtkar, آرش زارع گاریزی, Mahmood Arabkhedr, Vahid Shafahi, Majid Movahedi Rad Movahedi Rad
   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 1008, No 2025, 2025
5. "Generating MODIS hourly land surface temperature under clear sky conditions using Fourier series analysis"
   Hadi Zare Khormizi, Mohammad Jafari, Hamidreza Ghafarian Malamiri, Ali Tavili, Hamidreza Keshtkar
   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 136, No 1, 2024
6. "Quantitative study of spatiotemporal changes in ecology to monitor land degradation in Alborz Province"
   NASER MOSTAFAVI, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Hosein Azarnivand, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hassan Khosravi
   DESERT, Vol. 29, No 1, pp.21-35, 2024
7. "Investigating the role of meteorological drought and geodetic factors on land subsidence vulnerability using fuzzy overlay"
   Marjan Talebiniya, Hassan Khosravi, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Arash Malekian, Hamidreza Keshtkar
   DESERT, Vol. 27, No 2, 2022
8. "Remote sensing-based monitoring of the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought using hydro-meteorological indices"
   Nasrin Moazami, Amirreza Keshtkar, Saeid Hamzeh, Saham Mirzaei, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Ali Afzali
   DESERT, Vol. 27, No 2, pp.343-358, 2022
9. "Mapping spatial patterns of plant species based on machine-learning and regression models"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar, Pariya Pourmohammadi
   DESERT, Vol. 27, No 1, 2022
10. "Large-Scale Automated Sustainability Assessment of Infrastructure Projects Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Multisource Remote Sensing Data"
    Amiradel Shamshirgaran, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Nourzad, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Mahmoud Mohammad Hosein Zadeh Golabchi, Mehrdad Sadeghi
    Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 28, No 4, 2022
11. "Impact of climatic parameters on the extent of mangrove forests of southern Iran"
    Fariba Rostami, Pedram Attarod, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Mohammad Nazeri Tahrudi
    CASPIAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Vol. 20, No 4, pp.671-682, 2022
12. "Forest Cover and Sustainable Development in the Lumbini Province, Nepal: Past, Present and Future"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Nigel Stork, Sushila Rijal
    Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, No 8, 2021
13. "Forest restoration and support for sustainable ecosystems in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Sushila Rijal, Nigel Stork, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Lifu Zhang
    ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, Vol. 193, No 9, 2021
14. "A Comparison of Frameworks for Separating the Impacts of Human Activities and Climate Change on River Flow in Existing Records and Different Near‐Future Scenarios"
    Soghra Andaryani, Vahid Nourani, James Ball, Saeed Jahanbakhsh, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Dennis Trolle
    Hydrological Processes, Vol. 35, No 5, 2021
15. "The utility of a hybrid GEOMOD-Markov Chain model of land-use change in the context of highly water-demanding agriculture in a semi-arid region"
    Soghra Andaryani, Sean Sloan, Vahid Nourani, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    Ecological Informatics, Vol. 64, No 64, 2021
16. "Impact of lake surface changes on climate fluctuation within a lake‐affected region"
    Soudabeh Pakzad, Amirreza Keshtkar, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hadi Atashi, Ali Afzali
    Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 80, No 4, 2021
17. "Investigating the effects of distribution patterns on ecological indices of plant species in a simulated environment"
    Nafiseh Fakhar Izadi, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    DESERT, Vol. 25, No 2, 2020
18. "Comparison of three hybrid models to simulate land use changes: a case study in Qeshm Island, Iran"
    Ali Kourosh Niya, Jinliang Huang, Ali Kazemzadeh-Zow, Hazhir Karimi, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Babak Naimi
    ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, Vol. 192, No 4, 2020
19. "Pattern of Historical and Future Urban Expansion in Nepal"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Sean Sloan, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Roshan Sharma, Sushila Rijal, Uttam Babu Shrestha
    Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, No 4, 2020
20. "A Survey of Landscape Metrics and Land-use/land-cover Structures on Urban Heat Islands Surface: A Case Study on Urmia City, Iran"
    Yasaman Asadi, Kiavan Azimand, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Seyed Kazem Alavi Panah
    DESERT, Vol. 24, No 2, 2019
21. "Use of Intensity Analysis to Characterize Land Use/Cover Change in the Biggest Island of Persian Gulf, Qeshm Island, Iran"
    Ali Kourosh Nia, Jinliang Huang, Hazhir Karimi, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Babak Naimi
    sustainability, Vol. 11, No 7, 2019
22. "Effects of land use and land cover change on ecosystem services in the Koshi River Basin, Eastern Nepal"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Roshan Sharma, Ripu Kunwar, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Nigel Stork, Sushila Rijal, Syed Ajijur Rahman, Himlal Baral
    Ecosystem Services, Vol. 38, No 38, 2019
23. "Simulating urban expansion in a rapidly changing landscape in eastern Tarai, Nepal"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Roshan Sharma, Nigel Stork, Sushila Rijal, Ripu Kunwar
    ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT, Vol. 191, No 4, 2019
24. "A cost-effective and efficient framework to determine water quality monitoring network locations"
    Hossein Alilou, Alireza Moghaddam Nia, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Dawei Han, M.t. Bray
    SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 624, pp.283-293, 2018
25. "Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Urban Expansion and Hazard and Risk Area Identification in the Kaski District of Nepal"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Lifu Zhang, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Xuejian Sun, Sushila Rijal
    Land, Vol. 7, No 1, 2018
26. "Monitoring and Modeling of Spatiotemporal Urban Expansion and Land-Use/Land-Cover Change Using Integrated Markov Chain Cellular Automata Model"
    Bhagawat Rimal, Lifu Zhang, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Nan Wang, Yie Lin
    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol. 6, No 9, 2017
27. "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Drought Severity Using Drought Indices and Deterministic and Geostatistical Methods (Case Study: Zayandehroud River Basin)"
    [] [], Hamidreza Keshtkar, Soudabeh Pakzad, Nasrin Moazami, Maryam Aziz Abadi Farahani, Ali Golpayegani, Elahe Khosrojerdi, Zahra Usefi, MOHSEN TAGHINAGHILOU
    DESERT, Vol. 21, No 2, 2016
28. "Potential impacts of climate and landscape fragmentation changes on plant distributions: Coupling multitemporal satellite imagery with GIS-based cellular automata model"
    Hamidreza Keshtkar, Winfried Voigt
    Ecological Informatics, Vol. 32, No 1, pp.145-155, 2016
29. "Monitoring and detection of land use/land cover change using machine learning algorithms on the google earth engine platform: a case study of the Karun 1 Watershed"
    سینا نبی زاده, علی اصغر نقی پور, عطاالله ابراهیمی, Hamidreza Keshtkar, الهام قهساره
    Watershed managment Journal, Vol. 18, No 1, pp.25-44, 2026
30. "Identification the Factors Affecting the Supply Chain of Medicinal Plants in Nadushan Region Using the Glaser Approach"
    Mohammad reza Sayadi, Mehdi Ghorbani, Mohammad Jafari, Hamidreza Keshtkar, leila avazpour
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 79, No 1, pp.59-74, 2026
31. "Evaluation of the Performance of the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) Algorithm in Reconstructing Missing Data with Different Intensities in the Hourly Land Surface Temperature Time Series"
    Hadi Zare Khormizi, Mohammad Jafari, حمیدرضا غفاریان مالمیری, Ali Tavili, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    Iranian Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS, Vol. 17, No 4, 2026
32. "Predicting the Grazing Capacity of Mountainous Rangelands Using a Machine Learning Approach with Emphasis on Climate Change"
    Mohammadreza Najibzadeh, Hosein Arzani, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi, Javad Motamedi
    Desert Management, Vol. 13, No 4, 2025
33. "Application of Advanced Hidden Markov Model in Hourly Rainfall Simulation"
    زینب افشاری پور, Ali Salajegheh, Behzad Moshiri, Javad Bazrafshan, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    Irrigation and Water Engineering in Iran, Vol. 15, No 60, 2025
34. "Evaluation of machine learning techniques (SVM, GLM, FDA, RF) in preparing flood susceptibility map of a part of Khuzestan province"
    رویت قنواتی, Ali Salajegheh, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    Water and Soil Management and Modeling, Vol. 5, No 1, 2025
35. "Assessment and Monitoring of Drought Using Satellite and Meteorological Time Series Data (Case Study: Zanjan Province)"
    حسین شجاعی شیری, Hosein Arzani, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Setareh Bagheri, Omid Kavoosi
    Iranian Journal of Ecohydrology, Vol. 12, No 1, pp.613-634, 2025
36. "Identification of pests and diseases of Thymus kotschyanus and Thymus pubescens in rangelands of Alborz province"
    مهرداد نوروزی, Hamidreza Keshtkar, سید ابراهیم صادقی, Mohammad Javan-nikkhah, Esmaeil Alizadeh, جلیل علوی
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 77, No 3, 2024
37. "Consequences analysis of hydro-climatic and land use changes on Bakhtegan Lake surface changes using Landsat satellite images"
    Zahra Nosarv, Amirreza Keshtkar, Saeid Hamzeh, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Omid Kavoosi
    Iranian Journal of Ecohydrology, Vol. 11, No 3, pp.301-320, 2024
38. "Application of remote sensing in pest and plant disease monitoring"
    لیلا شریعتی نیا, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    زیست سپهر (گروه محیط زیست دانشکده منابع طبیعی تهران), Vol. 16, No 2, 2024
39. "Investigating the Impact of Climatic Drought Changes on Vegetation Indicators (Case study: Eshtehard city, Alborz province)"
    Aslanpanjeh Behzad, Hosein Arzani, Ali Tavili, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi
    integrated watershed management, Vol. 3, No 4, pp.18-32, 2024
40. "Ecological Habitat Modeling of Ferula gummosa in Ghorkhoud Protected Area Using Machine Learning Algorithms"
    Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hasan Yeganeh, امید کاوسی
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 76, No 3, 2023
41. "Investigation of subsidence trend in Isfahan plain using radar differential interferometry technique"
    Marjan Talebiniya, Hassan Khosravi, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Arash Malekian, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    Journal of applied RS & GIS Techinques in Natural Resource Science, Vol. 14, No 3, pp.5-12, 2023
42. "Defining spatially continuous Hydrological Response Units for hydrological modelling in a mountainous watershed with SWAT (Case Study: Taleghan watershed)"
    مرضیه حاجی محمدی, Aliakbar Nazari Samani, آرش زارع گاریزی, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Mahmood Arabkhedri, Amir Sadoddin
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 75, No 2, 2022
43. "Comparison of machine learning models to prioritize susceptible areas to dust production"
    Serveh Darvand, Hassan Khosravi, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Omid Rahmati
    Journal of Range and Watershed Management, Vol. 74, No 1, 2021

Conference Paper

1. "Spatio-temporal groundwater quality modeling based on the geostatistic and deterministic techniques in the Lut Desert World Natural Heritage Site: The hottest place on the Earth"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar, Sirous Shamshiri
   the 52nd congress of the international association of hydrogeologists, 2025
2. "Identifying the Consequences of Explaining the Supply Chain of Rangelands Medicinal Plants"
   Mohammad reza Sayadi, Mehdi Ghorbani, Mohammad Jafari, Hamidreza Keshtkar, leila avazpour
   15th International Conference on Agricultural Science, Environment, Urban and Rural Development, 2024
3. "Monitoring Land Surface Temperature Changes in Afghanistan over the Last Two Decades: A Satellite Data Analysis"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   3rd.International Conference on Architecture, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Environment and Horizons of Islamic Art In the Second Step Statement of the Revolution, 2024
4. "Investigating the linkage between vegetation and the dust sources and hotspots"
   Serveh Darvand, Hassan Khosravi, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Gholamreza Zehtabian
   The 1st International Conference on Rangeland Management in Iran, 2021
5. "Investigating the condition of vegetation cover using spatial data"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   The Fourth National and First International Conference on Application of Advanced Spatial Analysis Models (RS & GIS) in Land-Use Planning, 2021
6. "Spatial and temporal monitoring of land surface temperature trends using Remote Sensing Data"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   The Fourth National and First International Conference on Application of Advanced Spatial Analysis Models (RS & GIS) in Land-Use Planning, 2021
7. "Is NDVI the best index for vegetation studies?"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   21th National & 9th International Congress on Biology, 2021
8. "Evaluating the predictive performance of habitat models for Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   21th National & 9th International Congress on Biology, 2021
9. "Investigation the trend of LULC changes in a protected area"
   Hamidreza Keshtkar
   the first international conference and the fourth national conference on conservation of natural resources and environment, 2019
10. "Design of water quality sampling locations for data scares region"
    Hossein Alilou, Alireza Moghaddam Nia, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Mohsen Mohseni Saravi, Bahram Bakhtiari Enayat
    8th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Food, Energy, Industry & Environment, Tehran, Iran, 2017
11. "Satellite Images for Production estimation in Arid and Semi-arid Rangelands (Case Study: Northern Fars Province, Iran)"
    Hosein Arzani, Hamid Mohammadi, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    International Conference on Sustainable Development, Ottawa, Canada, 2017
12. "Seasonal Response of Surface Soil Moisture to Rainfall Variations in Isfahan Province"
    پرستو ایزدی, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    1st Iranian Ecohydrology Engineering Conference (IEC 2025), 2025
13. "The Role of Precipitation in Temporal Variations of Subsurface Soil Moisture"
    پرستو ایزدی, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    1st Iranian Ecohydrology Engineering Conference (IEC 2025), 2025
14. "Applications of Remote Sensing Technology in Monitoring Rangeland Wildfires"
    الهه ظفریان, Hosein Arzani, Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Ataollah Ebrahimi
    The 9th National Conference on Rangeland Management of Iran, 2025
15. "Investigating the drought situation in Zanjan province using meteorological indices"
    [] [], Hamidreza Keshtkar
    The First National Jaz Murian Conference; Challenges and Opportunities, 2025
16. "Spatial and temporal monitoring of rainfall fluctuations in Iran using TRMM data"
    Hamidreza Keshtkar
    The First National Jaz Murian Conference; Challenges and Opportunities, 2025
17. "Protection of forests and rangelands through agroforestry against wood imports"
    یاسمن لطفی, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    National Conference of Agroforestry, 2023
18. "Examining the advantages and challenges of Populus plantation"
    Zahra Jamali, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    National Conference of Agroforestry, 2023
19. "Analysis of soil moisture status in the central Iranian plateau"
    Hamidreza Keshtkar
    The 16th National Conference on Irrigation and Evaporation Reduction, 2023
20. "Monitoring wildfire incidents using remote sensing"
    [] [], Hamidreza Keshtkar, Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki
    The 8th Regional Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming, 2023
21. "Introduction of a part of the arthropod fauna and pests of thyme (Thymus spp.) in rangelands of Alborz province"
    مهرداد نوروزی, سید ابراهیم صادقی, Esmaeil Alizadeh, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    The third national conference of protection and conservation of forests and rangelands of Iran, 2023
22. "Monitoring of evapotranspiration in Iran using physical assimilation models"
    Hamidreza Keshtkar
    The 8th National Conference on Water Resources Management of Iran, 2021
23. "Water Sheet Changes in Dam’s Reservoir Using Satellite Imagery"
    Zohre Tasbihi, Hamidreza Keshtkar
    9th National Conference on Watershed Management and Soil and Water Resources Management, 2020