Now a days, erosion phenomenon is served as the most determinant lands destructive processes in different parts of the world including Iran. Sand and dust storms are of the main wind erosion catastrophes increased considerably in recent years. Enormous outcomes have been mentioned for these storms which they fall in two general environmental and anthropological ones. The primary step to better management and compete against these natural catastrophes and to reduce its adverse outcomes is to detect endangered regions. In order to evaluate regions affected by dust storm, in present research, Khuzestan province was recognized as an endangered region because of specific geographical position and being neighbor to Arabian deserts. To investigate province dust fronts, horizontal visibility data recorded at meteorological stations were used, the most important involved parameters with horizontal visibility were detected in five metrological stations. Results related to the days with dust frequency indicated that year 2008 accounted for highest frequency. Among studied towns, Abadan and MasjidSuleiman with 164 and 64 had the highest and the least value. Applied and strategic maps from 4 MODIS sensor data were used during 2008 to 2011 to map dust intensity in the region. After conducting geometric corrections and calculating brightness temperature using three indices of Ackerman, Miller ,TDI and NDDI dust intensity maps were produced. In order to distinguish dust mass from other atmospheric phenomena, the threshold less than zero in Ackerman and more than 2 for TDI indices and for Miler and NDDI indices were determined in respect to each dust event and related characteristics. Considering dust concentration in each index, dust storms intensity were Keywords: Dust mapping, Ackerman, Miler , TDI , NDDI and MODIS
