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Evaluation of agricultural crop efficiency is one of the most important applications dealt with remote sensing (RS) science and geographic information systems (GIS) because of their economic importance and relevance to countries food security. Therefore, to know the locations of the farms and count the ones specialized in cultivating the wheat crop, the farms of the Ain al-Tamur Cultivation Division, which are famous as being the pivotal farms dependent on groundwater, were chosen as a study area in this research. The research tries to enumerate and estimate the areas cultivated with the wheat crop, which are difficult to access due to the large cultivated area and assess the quality of the crop simultaneously based on the indicators of remote sensing. Eleven satellite images of Landsat8 and Sentinel-2. They covered the entire agricultural seasons of the period from 01/10/2015 to 01/06/2016. Moreover, the GIS program, a spatial database was prepared, depending on the meteorological data of the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, and using the Cropwat program to calculate the germination evaluation of the crop. Infrared (IR) bands & Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps and crop change detection maps created in addition to color maps representing farm areas and their quality. The research results showed good results in estimating areas and the quality of the crop grown with the technique of pivot sprinklers.

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