| Modeling climate change threats to cultural heritage sites: case study Saudi Arabia using RS &GIS |
| Paper ID : 1177-ICRSSSA |
| Authors |
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Rasha Hussien Ramadan ر Ramadan * National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences |
| Abstract |
| This paper aims to investigate and analyze changes in temperature, humidity, and precipitation patterns in order to create classification maps for vulnerable areas affected by climate change risks. Climate changes were tracked using satellite images at various time intervals to determine the extent to which the World Heritage sites in Saudi Arabia were impacted by the climatic indicators studied.This paper assists public authorities and private organizations in making decisions to protect World Heritage monuments in Saudi Arabia threatened by climate change using (RS) and (GIS) techniques.It also provides extensive features for capturing, exploring, managing, and modeling any type of dereferenced data. Temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity were chosen as the three most effective indicators of the consequences of climate change. The paper assumed that all three indicators had equal weights since the results were dependent on the change in the values of the model indicators throughout a 20-year research period on a monthly basis with a five-year gap by evaluating the average rate of change for each indicator each month. Four models were created: three sub-models (temperature changes, rainfall changes, and relative humidity changes),and a composite model. Climate change hazard maps were created and assessed, and the majority of World Heritage sites inside the danger zone were recognized. The vulnerable sites were grouped into five categories, from the least harmful to the most dangerous. According to the study's built model of climate change for heritage within the time period, the majority of World Heritage sites are in the medium-risk area. |
| Keywords |
| Heritage site; Climate Change; Vulnerable Urban Heritage; Heritage climatology; RS; GIS. |
| Status: Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
