Desertification and desertification are important and fundamental issues facing humanity and affecting various deserts. The purpose evaluates and analyze comprehensive strategic desert management in order to preserve and restore desert ecosystems in the Ardestan region using Landsat satellite images and the SWOT model. In this regard, statistics and information were collected using documentary studies and field visits, and data on the required variables were also collected by completing a questionnaire. The questionnaire questions were divided into four parts, the first part related to the respondents' individual factors, the second and third parts related to internal and external factors affecting comprehensive desert management, respectively; and the fourth part related to the level of knowledge about the region's natural resource activities. The data in the questionnaire were measured and evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively with a rank scale based on a four-point Likert scale. Statistical samples were randomly selected from 35 people in the statistical population, including experts and indigenous people of Ardestan city. The validity and reliability of the items were also examined and confirmed. The results showed that the highest variable of awareness of the desertification category was related to natural resource activities with 22 items and Cronbach's alpha of 0.81 by the respondents, and the lowest awareness was related to the rangeland management category, where the variable of external factors affecting comprehensive desert management was used with 23 items and Cronbach's alpha of 0.77, and the variable of internal factors affecting comprehensive desert management was used with 52 items and Cronbach's alpha of 0.80. Also, vegetation cover was examined at 8 points between 1984 and 2018 using the NDVI vegetation cover index, with the highest and densest vegetation cover corresponding to the period of 1984 and the lowest and least dense vegetation corresponding to the period of 1992.