Environmental changes, remote sensing, and infrastructure development: The case of Egypt's East Port Said harbour

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-288

  Kaiser, M F ^a  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

El Tina coastal zone; Engineering structures; Environmental changes; Erosion; Multispectral image classification; Remote sensing and vector analyses

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; PORT SAID [EGYPT];

TINA;

EID: 61649095161     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Abu Asi I.M. The geographic criteria for the East Port Said along the Mediterranean (1998), Egyptian Geographical Association 29 pp (in Arabic)
2. Cross A.M., Mason D.C., and Dury S.J. Segmentation of remotely - sensed images by a split-and-merge process. International Journal of Remote Sensing 9 (1988) 1329-1345
3. Csillage F. Comparison of some classification methods on a set site (Kiskore, Hungary): separability as a measure of accuracy. International Journal of Remote Sensing 7 (1986) 1705-1714
4. Deiab, A. F. A. (1998). Geology, pedology and hydrogeology of the Quaternary deposits in Sahl El-Tina and its vicinities for future development of north Sinai, Egypt. Ph.D. thesis, Mansoura University, Faculty of Science, Geology Department, 242 pp.
5. Dewidar Kh.M. Landfilling detection of Hurghada, North Red Sea, Egypt, by using Thematic Mapper. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23 (2000) 939-948
6. Dewidar Kh.M. Detection of the land use/land cover changes for the northern part of the Nile delta (Burullus region), Egypt. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25 20 (2004) 4079-4089
7. Dewidar Kh.M., and Frihy O.E. Thematic Mapper analysis to identify geomorphologic and sediment texture of El-Tineh plain, north-western coast of Sinai, Egypt. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 (2003) 2377-2385
8. Eastman J.R. Supervised classification in IDRISI for windows version 2, tutorial exercises (1997), Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts pp. 86-94
9. Eklundh L., and Singh A. A comparative analysis of standardized and unstandardized principal components analysis in remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing 14 (1993) 1359-1370
10. El-Bastawisy, M., Helmy Abd-Al wahab and Ali, R. H. (2006). Integrated socio-economic development for accelerating regional role of Port-Said in tourism development of Egypt. 42nd ISoCaRP Congress, 16 pp.
11. El-Raey M., Nasr S.M., and El-Hattab M.M. Change detection of Rosetta promontory over the last forty years. International Journal of Remote Sensing 16 5 (1995) 825-834
12. Frihy O.E. Sea-level rise and shoreline retreat of the Nile delta promontories, Egypt. Natural Hazards 5 (1992) 65-81
13. Frouin R., Schwindling M., and Deschamps P.Y. Spectral reflectance of sea foam in the visible and near-infrared, in situ measurements and remote sensing implications. Journal of Geophysical Research 101 (1996) 14361-14371
14. Fung T., and LeDrew E. Application of principal components analysis change detection. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 53 (1987) 1649-1658
15. Hixon M.M., Davis B.J., and Bauer M.E. Sampling Landsat classification for crop area estimation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 47 (1981) 1343-1348
16. Howarth P.J., and Boasson E. Landsat digital enhancement for change detection in urban environment. Remote Sensing of Environment 13 (1983) 149-160
17. Howarth P.J., and Wickmore G.M. Change detection in the Peace-Athabasca delta using digital Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment 11 (1981) 9-25
18. Janssen L.L.F., and Molenaar M. Terrain objects, their dynamics and their monitoring by the integration of GIS and remote sensing. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 33 (1995) 749-758
19. Kaiser, M. F. M. (2004). Monitoring and modelling the impact of engineering structures on coastline change, Nile Delta, Egypt, Ph.D. thesis, University of Reading, UK, 270 pp.
20. Kettig R.L., and Landgrebe D.A. Classification of multispectral image data by extraction and classification of homogeneous objects. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics 14 (1976) 19-26
21. Lillesand T.M., and Kiefer R.W. Remote sensing and image interpretation (1994), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 750 pp
22. Lillesand T.M., Kiefer R.W., and Chipman J.W. Remote sensing and image interpretation (2004), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 763 pp
23. Mather P.M. Computer processing of remotely-sensing images, an introduction. 2nd ed. (1999), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester pp. 1-75
24. Nelson R.F. Detecting forest canopy change due to insect activity using Landsat MSS. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 49 (1983) 1303-1314
25. Picchiotti A., Casacchia R., and Salvatori R. Multitemporal principal component analysis of spectral and spatial features of the Venice Lagoon. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18 1 (1997) 183-196
26. Richards J.A. Remote sensing digital image analysis: An introduction (1993), Spring-Verlag, Berlin
27. Sabins F.F. Remote sensing principles and interpretation (1987), W.H. Freeman, New York
28. Salem B.B., El-Cibahy A., and El-Raey M. Detection of land cover classes in agro-ecosystems of northern Egypt by remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing 16 14 (1995) 2518-2594
29. Shalaby A., and Tateishi R. Remote Sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring land cover and land-use changes in the Northwestern coastal zone of Egypt. Applied Geography 27 (2007) 28-41
30. Singh A., and Harrison A. Standardized principal components. International Journal of Remote Sensing 6 (1987) 883-896
31. Sonka M., Hlavac V., and Boyle R. Image processing, analysis and machine vision (1993), Chapman & Hall, London 555 pp
32. Stanley D. Subsidence in northeastern Nile Delta: rapid rates, possible causes and consequences. Science 240 (1988) 497-500
33. In: Thomas I.L., Benning V.M., and Ching N.P. (Eds). Classification of remotely sensed images (1987), Adam Hilger, Bristol
34. Todd W.J. Urban and regional land use change detection by using Landsat data. Journal of Research US Geological Survey 5 (1977) 529-534
35. Welch R., Jordan T.R., and Ehlers M. Comparative evaluations of the geodetic accuracy and cartographic potential of Landsat-4 and Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper image data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 51 (1985) 1249-1262
36. White K., and EL-Asmar H. Monitoring changing position of coastlines using Thematic Mapper imagery, an example from the Nile Delta. Geomorphology 29 (1999) 93-105
37. Wilson, J. R., Blackman, C., & Spann, G. W. Land use change detection using Landsat data. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Remote Sensing of Earth Resources Conference, 1976, Tullahoma, Tennessee, p. 91.
38. Wilson P.A. Rule-based classification of water in Landsat MSS images using the variance filter. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 63 (1997) 485-491