Analysis of urban growth at Cairo, Egypt using remote sensing and GIS英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.4, No.6, 355-361 (2012) Natural Science /10.4236/ns.2012.46049 Analysis of urban growth at Cairo, Egypt using remote sensing and GIS Mohamed E. Hereher Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science at Damietta, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; mhereher@ Received 21 January 2012; revised 22 February 2012; accepted 11 March 2012 ABSTRACT by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) on- board the Space Shuttle Endeavor in its journey during Dec. 2000. DEM images are available in 30, 90 and 1000 m spatial resolutions. The 30 m resolution DEMs are available only to the United States, whereas the 90 m and 1000 m resolution are available to the entire world and could be accessed from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) online open resources. In Egypt, remote sensing and its applications have emerged as early as this technology was invented. Early studies were based on visual interpretation of MSS data to map sand accumulations in the Western Desert [2]. During 1980s, soil salinization was a good target to mo- nitor in satellite images [3]. Advanced image processing was observed in the literature during 1990s as many spe- cialists applied image classification, principal component analysis and digital change detection [4-6]. Advanced techniques for mapping land cover change detection, such as vegetation indices and water indices were ap- plied in research since late 1990 until now [7,8]. Analysis of regional DEM is very recent topographic application of remote sensing in Egypt [9]. The main objective of the present study was to highlight and analyze the exchange between the land cover components at Cairo with focusing on urban area and agricultural land between 1973 and 2006 using Landsat satellite data with the aid of Digital Elevation Models (DEM). The techniques utilized in this investigation involved a rigorous supervised classification of t