Wetlands are important ecosystems which have mostly been dried due to inappropriate management. In drying process, wetlands are converted into desert-like conditions in long term. This research has studied the effect of Gavkhouni international wetland drying on desertification processing the east of Isfahan province. Land use/cover maps of the study area including water surface, bare land, salty land and vegetation over were produced using MSS 1976, ETM + 2006 and TM 2011 Landsat images and maximum likelihood supervised justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: ltr; mso-line-height-alt: .6pt" Keywords: Gavkhouni wetland, soil properties, soil shear strength, wind threshold speed, MEDALUS model, satellite data