CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Vasisth, Shushant |
|---|---|
| Title | Detecting Urban Sprawl in the Middle Nile Delta region of Egypt to understand its potential effect on Egypt's agriculture system |
| Summary | Urban growth is a growing threat along with climate change affecting Nile Delta Region of Egypt. Assessing the impacts of urbanisation to understand the causal factors is very important to be able to combat this problem. For this research, LANDSAT 5 TM for 1997 and 8 OLI TIRS satellite images 2017 were used to study the change in land use/land cover in the study area of Al-Gharbiya and Menoufia governorate in Middle Nile Delta Region. Hybrid or Combined classification method was used to assess the growth of urbanization in the study area. Random Stratified sampling and Kappa statistics were used for accuracy assessment. The accuracy assessment result for the multi-temporal classification was found to be 89% and 85% for the year 1997 and 2017 respectively. Classification showed increase in the agriculture areas by 6.10% while urban areas increased by 21.19 % during the same period. Decrease in surface water and barren areas recorded was by 25.70% and 63.52% respectively. This thesis identified various factors contributing to the rapid urban growth in the Nile Delta region affecting its arable lands. This thesis makes four key recommendations for researchers and policymakers of Egypt to tackle the growing problem to combat future crisis situation |
| Supervisor | Lagutov, Viktor |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/vasisth_shushant.pdf |
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