This research depends on the relationship between the reflected spectrum, the nature of each target, area and the percentage of its presence with other targets in the unity of the target area. The changes occur in Land cover have been detected for different years using satellite images based on the Modified Spectral Angle Mapper (MSAM) processing, where Landsat satellite images are utilized using two software programming (MATLAB 7.11 and ERDAS imagine 2014). The proposed supervised classification method (MSAM) using a MATLAB program with supervised classification method (Maximum likelihood Classifier) by ERDAS imagine have been used to get farthest precise results and detect environmental changes for periods. Despite using two classification methods, the results of the suggested method (MSAM) have been proved its superiority, where the classification accuracies are 88%, 91% and 92% for years 1986, 2000 and 2018, respectively. The results indicated that during the last three decades for study area subjected to many artificial and natural changes, these changes have impacts on land cover, vegetation, and the aquatic environment. In this paper from the results, one can see these marshes suffered was dryness, rareness in vegetation and increasing in alluvial soil during the period 1986 – 2000, while during 2000 - 2018 there were increasing in water and vegetation with a decreasing in the alluvial soil.
