Development Spatial Decision Support System Model for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in Kafr Elsheikh Governorate, Egypt Using Remote Sensing and GIS |
Paper ID : 1013-ICRSSSA-FULL (R1) |
Authors |
Ehab Abdelhamid Abdelsalam *, Mohamed Elsayed M. Jalhoum, Mohamed Elsayed Said, Abdelaziz Belal National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt |
Abstract |
The fundamental driver behind the real time data collection offered by remote sensing and GIS is the requirement for efficient planning and disaster prevention. Egypt's Nile delta is rapidly becoming more unplanned as a result of population growth and the human influence that results in rapid changes in land use and land cover. Egypt must create sustainable land management (SLM) methods due to the current strain on its agricultural land resources. The process of creating such systems necessitates the availability of simple tools for evaluating sustainability. To simultaneously satisfy the five pillars of SLM maintaining or improving production services (productivity), lowering the level of production risk (security), protecting the potential of natural resources, and preventing degradation of soil and water quality (protection), being economically viable (viability), and being socially acceptable SLM combines technologies, policies, and initiatives aimed at integrating socio-economic principles with environmental concerns (acceptability). This paper aims to develop SLM indicators under the international Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management (FESLM) by conducting this work in Kafr Elshiekh Governorate. The information and data gathered from the study region were analyzed to create SDSS-SLM indicators that address the five FESLM pillars. The obtained results showed that sustainable land management in, the study area was classified into three categories of sustainability, which are (I) with an area of 51% and sustainability (III) with an area of 25%. All rest units do not meet the sustainability requirements of Class IV. |
Keywords |
Sustainability indicators, Remote Sensing, GIS, SDSS-SLM, Kafr Elsheikh Governorate, Egypt. |
Status: Accepted (Oral Presentation) |