Land Use Land Cover Change : in Ash-Sharqiyah Governorate of Egypt from 2005 to 2015

ISBN-13: 9786200653468 / Angielski

Ahmed Nabil Reda Abdelkhalek

Opis

Agriculture is also one of the most important sectors in the Egyptian economy. However, Egypt has experienced changes in Land use / Land Cover quickly over the past few decades. According to World Bank data for agricultural land of Egypt, between 2005 to 2015 the area of agricultural land fluctuated between increases and decreases. Which negatively affected the loss of many agricultural lands because of the urban encroachment. According to estimates of the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture for 2015 Ash-Sharqiyah governorate produces about 35% of wheat production in Egypt. For these reasons, the goal of the current study is to monitor changes of Land use / Land Cover in Ash-Sharqiyah province of Egypt from 2005 to 2015. using two different classification approach (Pixel-based and Object-based) to compare between them then choose the closest to reality by assessing accuracy

O autorze

Reda Abdelkhalek, Ahmed Nabil
I am Ahmed Nabil, hold a master's degree from the University of Salzburg from Austria, according to the program UNIGIS Masters of Science (MSc) program, which provides an understanding of the conceptual, technical, and organisational aspects of GIScience