An overview of land degradation, desertification and sustainable land management using GIS and remote sensing applications

MAE AbdelRahman - Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 2023 - Springer
Land degradation (LD) poses a major threat to food security, livelihoods sustainability,
ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. The total area of arable land in the world …

Soil erosion assessment by RUSLE model using remote sensing and GIS in an arid zone

P Li, A Tariq, Q Li, B Ghaffar, M Farhan… - … Journal of Digital …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this research, we used the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and
Geographical Information System (GIS) to predict the annual rate of soil loss in the District …

Policy instruments for soil protection among the EU member states: A comparative analysis

S Ronchi, S Salata, A Arcidiacono, E Piroli… - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Many factors threaten European Soils, and currently, all the Member States (MS)
are introducing many types of soil protection measures. Erosion, pollution, sealing and …

A study of urban heat island effects using remote sensing and GIS techniques in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, India

M Bagyaraj, V Senapathi, S Karthikeyan, SY Chung… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
Aspects of ecological issues arising from rapid urbanization are investigated in this paper
using Land Surface Temperature (LST) in terms of radiation budgets studied by heat …

[HTML][HTML] GIS applications in agriculture

P Ghosh, SP Kumpatla - Geographic Information Systems and …, 2022 - intechopen.com
Technological innovations during the recent centuries have enabled us to significantly boost
agricultural production to feed the rapidly increasing global population. While advances in …

Mapping and quantifying comprehensive land degradation status using spatial multicriteria evaluation technique in the headwaters area of upper Blue Nile River

A Ewunetu, B Simane, E Teferi, BF Zaitchik - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mapping and quantifying land degradation status is important for identifying vulnerable
areas and to design sustainable landscape management. This study maps and quantifies …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of land degradation using comprehensive geostatistical approach and remote sensing data in GIS-model builder

MAE AbdelRahman, A Natarajan, R Hegde… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study was conducted to assess Land Degradation (LD) status under different land use.
Geostatistical technique used to interpolate spatially distribution of soil physical, chemical …

Assessment of soil fertility status under soil degradation rate using geomatics in West Nile Delta

MAE AbdelRahman, MM Metwaly, AA Afifi, P D'Antonio… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The presence of a noticeable rate of degradation in the land of the Nile Delta reduces the
efficiency of crop production and hinders supply of the increasing demand of its growing …

Development of a spatial model for soil quality assessment under arid and semi-arid conditions

MS Shokr, MA Abdellatif, AA El Baroudy, A Elnashar… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Food security has become a global concern for humanity with rapid population growth,
requiring a sustainable assessment of natural resources. Soil is one of the most important …

Detecting and mapping salt-affected soil with arid integrated indices in feature space using multi-temporal Landsat imagery

MAE AbdelRahman, AA Afifi, P D'Antonio, SS Gabr… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salinity systems are well known as extreme environmental systems that occur either
naturally or by certain human activities, in arid and semiarid regions, which may harm crop …