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Land use changes and its impacts on water resources in Nile Delta region using remote sensing techniques

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  • Mohamed Elhag
  • Aris Psilovikos
  • Maria Sakellariou-Makrantonaki

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Sustainable water resources management plans depend on reliable monitoring of land use –land cover (LULC) changes. The use of the remote sensing techniques in LULC changes detection brings consistency and reliability to the decision maker at regional scale. Three temporal data sets of images were used to obtain the land cover changes in this study: Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) acquired in 1984, and Landsat-7 enhanced Thematic Mapper acquired in 2000 and 2005 consequently. Each temporal data set consists of four Landsat scenes, which were mosaicked to cover the whole Nile Delta. Two different supervised classification algorithms were implemented to produce classification maps in thematic form. Support vector machine showed higher classification accuracies in comparison with maximum likelihood classification. The results indicated that the rapid imbalance changes occurred among three land cover classes (urban, desert, and agricultural land). These changes powered the land degradation and land fragmentation processes over the agricultural land exclusively due to urban encroachment. Slight land cover changes were detected between fish farms and surface water land cover classes. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

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  • Mohamed Elhag & Aris Psilovikos & Maria Sakellariou-Makrantonaki, 2013. "Land use changes and its impacts on water resources in Nile Delta region using remote sensing techniques," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 15(5), pages 1189-1204, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:15:y:2013:i:5:p:1189-1204
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-013-9433-5
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    1. Aris Psilovikos & Mohamed Elhag, 2013. "Forecasting of Remotely Sensed Daily Evapotranspiration Data Over Nile Delta Region, Egypt," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(12), pages 4115-4130, September.
    2. Mohamed Elhag, 2014. "Sensitivity analysis assessment of remotely based vegetation indices to improve water resources management," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 16(6), pages 1209-1222, December.
    3. Jarbou Bahrawi & Hatem Ewea & Ahmed Kamis & Mohamed Elhag, 2020. "Potential flood risk due to urbanization expansion in arid environments, Saudi Arabia," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 104(1), pages 795-809, October.
    4. Célestin Defo & Bernard Palmer Kfuban Yerima & Nestor Bemmo, 2017. "Investigating soils retention ratios and modelling geochemical factors affecting heavy metals retention in soils in a tropical urban watershed," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 19(5), pages 1649-1671, October.
    5. Mohamed Elhag & Silvena Boteva, 2020. "Quantitative Analysis of Different Environmental Factor Impacts on Land Cover in Nisos Elafonisos, Crete, Greece," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(18), pages 1-17, September.
    6. Molle, François & Gaafar, Ibrahim & El-Agha, Doaa Ezzat & Rap, Edwin, 2018. "The Nile delta's water and salt balances and implications for management," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 197(C), pages 110-121.

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