Ayman Abdelkarim Ahmed Salem <br/><br/>
Monitoring land degradation  in the north western coast of Egypt and Algeria /  
 رصد تدهور الأراضي  في الساحل الشمالي الغربي  لمصر والجزائر  
Ayman Abdelkarim Ahmed Salem ; Supervised Adel S. Elhassanin , Rafat R. Ali , Naglaa Saleh Mohamed  
 - Cairo :   Ayman Abdelkarim Ahmed Salem ,   2018 
 - 144 P. :   charts , facsimiles , maps ;   25cm  
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Institute of African Research and Studies - Department of Natural Resources 
<br/><br/> The present study aims to detect vegetation changes in North Western Coast of Egypt "EL-Dabaa  EL-Hammam area" between Latitude(30 41' 45" N and 31 5' 30" N) and longitude (2822' 59" E and 29 29' 30" E)  and Algeria "Beni Saf - Oran area" between Latitude(35 20' 30" N and 35 54' 45" N) and longitude (112' 30" W and 02' 0" E) Remote sensing technology was used through satellite images acquired by the US satellite Landsat-8 and Landsat-5 for the years  (2016  2000  1984) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Application Programs such as ENVI 5.3 and Arc-gis 10.4 in order to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and producing to soil properties map and based land degradation assessment.The results of this study indicated that there was a  change of vegetation cover  between 1984 and 2016 images and increases in water bodies, wet sabkha and  some features included cultivated lands in the study area 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Geographic Information Systems (GIS)  Monitoring land degradation  Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)