Assessment of the Miocene aquifer in Wadi El Farigh area by using GIS techniques | ||
| NRIAG Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics | ||
| Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2016, Pages 463-473 PDF (6.4 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.1016/j.nrjag.2016.11.001 | ||
| Authors | ||
| M. Gad; M. El Hattab; Sh. Galal | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Land reclamation projects represent one of Egypt’ strategic policies to meet the needs of over-increase in population. In this regard Wadi El-Farigh and surrounding areas are new promising reclaimed areas because it has reclaimable soils and adequate groundwater potentiality. Development of human activities especially agricultural and industrial activities has a negative impact on the groundwater quality. Geographic information systems (GISs) have become a useful and important tool in hydrology in the scientific study and assessment of water resources. Landsat satellite images dated 2005 and 2013 were used in this study to access the changes in date land use/land cover that influenced the groundwater aquifer. ERDAS IMAGIN 9.2 image processing system was used for processing satellite images (geometric correction, classification, and change detection). The integration of image processing and Geographic Information System (ArcGIS version 10) was employed to correlate the data and map the results. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Assessment; Miocene aquifer; Wadi El Farigh; GIS | ||
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