Abstract: Recognizing land use changes (LUC) and evaluating their relationship with producing dust sources are considered effective to manage the environment. Taking Kermanshah Province, Iran as study area, dusty days from 2008 to 2015 were selected and dust sources were identified applying thermal-infrared dust index (TDI), hybrid single-particle lagrangian integrated trajectory (HYSPLIT), false color composite (FCC) and true color composite (TCC) of MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images. Afterwards, the land use change map was produced using Landsat images in 2000 and 2015. Then, the distribution and frequency of the sources in each land-use change class and important dust production areas were specified. Eventually, two non-parametric tests including Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis were applied to examine the relationship between LUC and dust sources. Results indicated that the distribution of dust sources was not identical in the study area, and the sources were mainly generated in the areas where land-use change had occurred. In fact, different classes of LUC have different contributions to dust production, and the highest contribution refers to the deflation in gentle slope areas and lowlands where the rangeland has been converted into agriculture land. The findings from this study are useful to manage and control dust in the identified sources.