Use of remote sensing and geographic information system for monitoring agricultural development processes in the desert hinterland of Al-Buhaira Governorate

Elfiky, Elwy; Alsersy, Magdy; A. Abdou, Said; Elnahry, Alaa; Nada, Noura

doi:10.21608/buhuth.2021.60806.1070

Use of remote sensing and geographic information system for monitoring agricultural development processes in the desert hinterland of Al-Buhaira Governorate

Document Type : Academic research papers

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¹ NARSS

² Professor of Economic Geography - Geography Department- Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams – Egypt

³ Professor of Economic Geography - Geography Department- Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams - Egypt

⁴ Professor of pedology – National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science – Egypt

⁵ Lecture of Economic Geography - Geography Department- Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams – Egypt

10.21608/buhuth.2021.60806.1070

Abstract

The study depended on 10 satellite images were produced by Landsat satellite series, for monitoring the progress of agricultural land amount in the desert hinterland of Al-Buhaira Governorate in the period (1985-2020), the required image preprocessing were performed to procedure the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), also the accuracy assessment process were performed by using 200 ground truth points. The results showed that the agricultural development process in the study area were passed by three main phases, from the beginning of reclamation in year 1985, from this time the cultivated land were in progressing but by low rates, which reached 1614.23 feddan in year 2000, at the end of this phase in 2005 the cultivated land represented 2.1% of the total area. At the start of year 2006 the agricultural development process were progressed due to the government intervention and legalization, so the cultivated lands represented 15.42% of the total area in year 2015, then the study area has had a huge progress in agricultural development due to the Cairo-Dabaa road, which raised the annual progress rate to 53099.3 feddan in year 2020, and so the cultivated area reached 288570.26 feddan, which represent 28.85% of the total area.

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