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Effect of Land Use Change on Agricultural Soils in Northern Nile Delta of Egypt Using Remote Sensing and GIS
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Abowaly, Mohamed Moghanm, Farahat Saad El-Nahry, A. H. Shalaby, A. A. Khedr, Hassan A. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Egypt Nile delta has very limited area of fertile soils which threatening by urban sprawl. Assessment of thebuilt-up areastretch effect on agricultural lands of the Egyptian Northern Nile delta has been detected by using Landsat TM, Landsat ETM and Landsat OLI satellite images (1984, 2002 and 2016 respectively). + Monitoring of urban sprawl was applied by visual interpretation viasupervised classification, on-screen digitizing and change detection techniques.The urban thematic layerand the land capability map using GISmade it possible to highlight the hazards of urban growth on the soils that have high capability. The obtained results showed that theoverallincrease of urban area amounted to 28 Km (210% of the built-up area) during the study 2 from1984 to 2016. The built-up areagrowththroughout the 1984 – 2016 was on the expense of the soils that have good capability with amount of 18 km (4 % of the good capability soil area). While the soils with fair capability 2 lost 9 km (4 % of the fair capability soil area). The built-up area growth over the noncapable soils (barren land) 2 wasvery large during the 1984 and 2002 period, where it has been amounted to 11 km was converted to urban. 2 The urban sprawlpattern has been changed during the period from 2002 to 2016, where very partial area amounted to (1km ) of the non capable soils (barren land) was changed to built-up area. It could be summarized 2 that the urban sprawl represents one of themainsoil loss and degradation processesin theNile delta. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
