The aim of this study is to assess land cover change in the Qeshm Island in southern Iran by combining the resulting outputs of multiple modeling methods, cellular automata CA , Markov chains, and artificial neural networks ANN based on land cover maps for the years 1996, 2006, and 2016 that have been extracted from satellite imagery Landsat 5, 7, and 8 . ...Due to the climate change, the land area covering vegetation has decreased dramatically. The size of the mangrove forests has increased over the time period of the study 1996 2025 . ...