Changes in irrigation water consumption in the Nile Delta of Egypt assessed by remote sensing

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 10509-10519

  El Shirbeny, Mohammed A ^a   Alsersy, Magdy A M ^b   Saleh, Nasser H ^a   Abu Taleb, Khaled A ^a  

^a NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Actual evapotranspiration (ETa); Landsat; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); SPOT 4 and MODIS; Vegetation cover; Water deficit index (WDI)

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER RESOURCE;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA;

EID: 84949099351     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-015-2005-2     Document Type: Article

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