| Impact the Thermal Power Stations on Nile Water Temperature Using Landsat 8 OLI/TIR Case Study: Shubra El kheima Thermal Power Station, Egypt |
| Paper ID : 1152-ICRSSSA (R1) |
| Authors |
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Nadia Mohamed Eshra * Naser City , Cairo
El_Qanater Elkhairia, Qalubia |
| Abstract |
| The environmental effects for the cooling system of thermal power stations are becoming a major concern. The hot effluents from thermal stations that are being merged into the River Nile water was affected on its water quality especially water temperature. The most common physical assessment of water quality is the measurement of temperature. Temperature impacts both the chemical and biological of surface water. The present study focuses on utilize the Remote Sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) to estimate the change in River Nile temperature in the area of the outlet of cooling water from Shubra El-kheima station (ie surrounding area of the station by using remote sensing images and GIS). Where Landsat image 8; OLI/TIRS sensor from the enhanced thematic mapper is used. The methodology was based on the simple regression between the water temperatures estimated from satellite image, and actual water temperature measurements. The water samples were taken from the study area around the outlet of Shubra Elkheima station as well as the inlet, Gain and Bias, and radiative transfer equation-based method is used. The results showed a significant relation between the measurement values and estimated values from the images, which take potentiality of remote sensing in estimating the change in water temperature, |
| Keywords |
| Thermal Power Station, Nile Water Temperature, RS, GIS. |
| Status: Accepted (Oral Presentation) |
