Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications: Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Strong Interactions Indicated Between Dust Aerosols and Precipitation Related Clouds in the Nile Delta  (Hesham M. El-Askary, Wenzhao Li, Maram El-Nadry, M. Awad, Alaa R. Mostafa)....Pages 3-6
 Exploring Desert Aquifers and Polar Ice Sheets and Their Responses to Climate Evolution: OASIS Mission Concept  (Essam Heggy, Paul A. Rosen, Richard Beatty, Tony Freeman, Young Gim, The OASIS Team)....Pages 7-10
 Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Modelling in Natural Hazards and Environmental Applications  (Biswajeet Pradhan)....Pages 11-13
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
 Visualization of Subsurface Data Using Three-Dimensional Cartograms  (Ziqiang Li, Saman A. Aryana)....Pages 17-19
 GIS Contribution to the Implementation of an EOSID Process Followed in Case of an Engine Failure After the Take-off of a Boeing 737-500 Aircraft from Tabarka-Aïn Draham International Airport (NW of Tunisia)  (Mohamed Hafedh Hamza, Meriem Saddour, Hanen Mokrani, Raouf Khelif)....Pages 21-24
 On Geo-informatics Ecosystem Framework for Energy Resources Management in the Frontier Sedimentary Basins  (Nimmagadda L. Shastri, Said Hanafy, Sharaf Eldin Mahmoud)....Pages 25-27
 Comparative GIS-Based Automated Landform Classifications: Application of Jenness and Shary Methods to the Jebel Chaambi Area (West-Central Tunisia)  (Meriem Labiadh, Ibtissem Amri, Mohamed Chedly Rabiaa)....Pages 29-31
 A GIS-Based Spatially Distributed Crop Water Demand Modelling for Pullambadi Canal Command Area in Lower Cauvery Basin, Tamil Nadu, India  (Saravanan Subbarayan, Jacinth Jennifer J., Abijith D., Singh Leelambar)....Pages 33-35
 Solar Power Plant Site Location Suitability Analysis Using GIS Weighted Average Raster Overlay [Lebanon]  (Amal Iaaly, Oussama Jadayel, Nabil Karame, Nachaat Khayat)....Pages 37-40
 Producing a Three Dimensional Model for the University of Baghdad Campus Using GIS Environment  (Zahraa E. Hussein, Layla K. Abbas, Mohammed R. Falih, Wasan M. Mohammed)....Pages 41-44
 Seasonal Hydrological Loading from GPS Observed Data Across Contiguous United States Using Integrated Apache Hadoop Framework  (Pece V. Gorsevski, Yuning Fu, Kurt S. Panter, Jeffrey Snyder, Asanga M. Ramanayake)....Pages 45-47
 Characterization of Periodic Signals and Noises of Geocenter Motion from Space Geodesy Techniques Data  (Bachir Gourine)....Pages 49-52
 Geo-Informatics for Optimal Design of Desalination Plants Using Renewable Energy Sources: The DESiRES Platform Paradigm  (Eftichios Koutroulis, George Petrakis, Dionissios Hristopulos, Achilles Tripolitsiotis, Nabila Halouani, Arij Ben Naceur et al.)....Pages 53-55
 Combination of Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Hierarchical Analysis Process (HAP) Methods for the Determination of Construction Suitability Zones in the Eastern Part of the Jijel Region (North East Algeria)  (Karim Remoum, Azzedine Bouzenoune)....Pages 57-59
 Building Segmentation of Aerial Images in Urban Areas with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks  (Yaning Yi, Zhijie Zhang, Wanchang Zhang)....Pages 61-64
 A Hybrid Approach to Super Resolution Mapping for Water-Spread Area and Capacity Estimation of Reservoir Using Satellite Image (India)  (Heltin Genitha Cyril Amala Dhason, Indhumathi Muthaia)....Pages 65-68
 Multi-source System for Accurate Urban Extension Detection  (Hassna Kilani, Hichem Ben Abdallah, Takoua Abdellatif, Rabah Attia)....Pages 69-71
 3D Reconstruction of Residential Areas with SfM Photogrammetry  (Murat Yakar, Yusuf Dogan)....Pages 73-75
 Logistic Regression-based Geomorphological Mapping in the Arabian Platform: Implications for the Paleohydrology and the Paleoclimate of the Arabian Desert  (Racha Elkadiri, Abotalib Z. Abotalib, Mohamed Sultan)....Pages 77-79
 Validation of TRMM Satellite Rainfall Algorithm for Forest Basins in Northern Tunisia  (Saoussen Dhib, Zoubeida Bargaoui, Chris M. Mannaerts)....Pages 81-83
 Contribution of Remote Sensing to Cartography (Application in the Djanet Area, East Hoggar, Algeria)  (Dalila Nemmour-Zekiri, Yamina Mahdjoub, Fatiha Oulebsir, Zakaria Hamimi)....Pages 85-89
Front Matter ....Pages 91-91
 Producing of Land Cover Map for Marshes Areas in the South of Iraq Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques  (Hussein Sabah Jaber)....Pages 93-95
 A Modified Triangle with SAR Target Parameters for Soil Texture Categorization Mapping  (Shoba Periasamy, Divya Senthil, Ramakrishnan S. Shanmugam)....Pages 97-99
 Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Monitoring Highly Dynamic Phenomena: Case of the Ephemeral Lakes in the Chott El Jerid, Tunisia  (Khairat Abbas, Jean-Paul Deroin, Samir Bouaziz)....Pages 101-103
 Land Use Land Cover Diachronic Change Detection Between 1996 and 2016 of Region of Gabes, Tunisia  (Wided Batita)....Pages 105-108
 Impact of Land-use Change on Soil Erosion in the Coonoor Watershed, Nilgiris Mountain Range, Tamil Nadu, India  (Saravanan Subbarayan, Jennifer Jacinth J., Singh Leelambar, Saranya T., Sivaranjani S.)....Pages 109-111
 Exploring the Influence of Land Use Type and Population Density on Urban Heat Island Intensity  (Mir I. Parvez, Yusuf A. Aina)....Pages 113-115
 Land Use Classification and Change Detection Using Multi-temporal Landsat Imagery in Sulaimaniyah Governorate, Iraq  (Karwan Alkaradaghi, Salahalddin S. Ali, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Jan Laue)....Pages 117-120
 NDWI Based Change Detection Analysis of Qarun Lake Coastal Area, El-Fayoum, Egypt  (Noha Donia)....Pages 121-124
 Effects of Land Use on the Chemical Characterization of Imo River Basin and Its Catchments (Nigeria): A GIS Approach  (Chukwudi Nwaogu, Olutoyin Fashae, Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Vilém Pechanec)....Pages 125-129
 Toward Satellite-Based Estimation of Growing Season Framing Dates in Conditions of Unstable Weather  (Evgeny Panidi, Ivan Rykin, Giovanni Nico, Valery Tsepelev)....Pages 131-133
 Investigating Land Surface Temperature (LST) Change Using the LST Change Detection Technique (Gomishan District, Iran)  (Maliheh Arekhi)....Pages 135-139
Front Matter ....Pages 141-141
 Remote Spectral Imaging Using a Low Cost sUAV System for Monitoring Rangelands  (Mounir Louhaichi, Steven L. Petersen, Teresa Gomez, Ryan R. Jensen, Grayson R. Morgan, Chuck Butterfield et al.)....Pages 143-145
 Correlation Between Surface Modeling and Pulse Width of FWF-Lidar  (Fanar M. Abed)....Pages 147-149
 An Innovative Technique for Estimating the Radius of Buried Cylindrical Targets Using GPR  (Rim Ghozzi, Samer Lahouar, Chokri Souani)....Pages 151-154
 Classification of Landslide Features Using a LiDAR DEM and Back-Propagation Neural Network  (Jee-Cheng Wu, Chia-Hao Chang)....Pages 155-158
 Building Hights and Floor Estimation Using 3D Maps, Central Part of Kucukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey  (Arzu Erener, Gulcan Sarp, Muhammet İbrahim Karaca)....Pages 159-162
 Automatic Building and Height Determination from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data  (Efdal Kaya, Arzu Erener)....Pages 163-166
 Estimating Crown Biomass of Oak Trees Using Terrestrial Photogrammetry in Zagros Forests  (Zahra Azizi)....Pages 167-169
 Estimation of Available Canopy Fuel of Coppice Oak Stands Using Low-Density Airborne Laser Scanning (LiDAR) Data  (Farzad Yavari, Hormoz Sohrabi)....Pages 171-173
Front Matter ....Pages 175-175
 Nile Delta Sedimentary Basin—A Big Data Guided Digital Petroleum Ecosystem  (Nimmagadda L. Shastri, Said Hanafy, Torsten Reiners)....Pages 177-180
 Toward Lithological Mapping of Arabian Peninsula Using ASTER Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data  (Yoshiki Ninomiya)....Pages 181-184
 Research Issues on Geovisual Analytics for Petroleum Data Management  (Rifaat Abdalla)....Pages 185-187
 Spatial Variations Prediction in Carbonate Porosity Using Artificial Neural Network: Subis Limestones, Sarawak, Malaysia  (Yasir Ali, Eswaran Padmanabhan, S. Andriamihaja, A. Faisal)....Pages 189-191
 Potential Artisanal to Small Scale Cement Production Site Determination Using Qualitative Site Multifactor Analysis: Case Study—South Africa  (Freeman Senzani, Antoine Mulaba-Bafubiandi)....Pages 193-195
 Lineament Mapping Using RS and GIS Techniques at Mbateka, SE Cameroon: Implication for Mineralization  (Melvin Tamnta Nforba, Linus Api, Nelvice Berinyuy, Salomon César Nguemhe Fils)....Pages 197-201
 Prediction of Lamination Patterns in Heterolithic Sedimentary Sequence, Offshore Sarawak (Malaysia)  (Yasir Ali, Eswaran Padmanabhan)....Pages 203-205
 Investigation of Aqueous and Light Non-aqueous Phase Liquid in Fractured Double-Porosity Soil  (Hossein Moayedi, Loke Kok Foong, Ramli Nazir, Biswajeet Pradhan)....Pages 207-210
 A Review on Soil Erosion Control Studies  (Hossein Moayedi, Ramli Nazir, Loke Kok Foong, Biswajeet Pradhan)....Pages 211-213
 Spatial Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Content Using Remote Sensing Data in Southern Tunisia  (Emna Medhioub, Moncef Bouaziz, Samir Bouaziz)....Pages 215-217
 Applicability of Landsat TM Images to Detect Soil Salinity of Coastal Areas in Bangladesh  (Jannatul Ferdous, M. Tauhid Ur Rahman)....Pages 219-221
Front Matter ....Pages 223-223
 Monitoring Dynamics of Date Palm Plantations from 1984 to 2013 Using Landsat Time-Series in Sahara Desert Oases of Algeria  (Ali Mihi, Tarai Nacer, Haroun Chenchouni)....Pages 225-228
 VegMeasure: Image Processing Software for Grassland Vegetation Monitoring  (Mounir Louhaichi, Sawsan Hassan, Douglas E. Johnson)....Pages 229-230
 Assessing the Impact of Vegetation Cover on Total Column Ozone Over West Africa  (Samuel Ogunjo, Ibiyinka Fuwape, Babatunde Rabiu, Sunday Oluyamo, Eunice Owoola)....Pages 231-233
 Contribution of Satellite Imagery to Study Salinization Effect of Agricultural Areas at Northern Eastern Oasis Algerian Region  (Madina Khelifi Touhami, Seyfallah Bouraoui, Mohamed-Chérif Berguig)....Pages 235-238
 Monitoring of Grasslands Management Practices Using Interferometric Products Sentinel-1  (Ons Chiboub, Amjad Kallel, Pierre-Louis Frison, Maïlys Lopes)....Pages 239-242
 On the Drying Trends Over the MENA Countries Using Harmonic Analysis of the Enhanced Vegetation Index  (Wenzhao Li, Hesham M. El-Askary, Mohamed Qurban, Mohamed Allali, K. P. Manikandan)....Pages 243-245
Front Matter ....Pages 247-247
 Case Study of Debris-Flow Alluvial Fan at Dabaini Catchment, Yunnan Province, China  (Yanji Li, Kaiheng Hu)....Pages 249-251
 Spatial Modeling of Gully Erosion Using Different Scenarios and Evidential Belief Function in Maharloo Watershed, Iran  (Mahdis Amiri, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Gholam Abbas Ghanbarian, Sayed Fakhreddin Afzali)....Pages 253-256
 Mapping Information of Fire Events, from VGI Source (Twitter), for Effective Disaster Management (in Greece); The Fire of North-East Attica, August 2017, (Greece) Case Study  (Stathis G. Arapostathis, Marianthi Karantzia)....Pages 257-260
 Sinkhole Susceptibility Hazard Zones Using GIS Framework and Heuristic Method  (Mohd Asri Hakim Mohd Rosdi, Zulkiflee Abd Latif, Ainon Nisa Othman, Nasyairi Mat Nasir)....Pages 261-264
 Two Dimensional Flood Inundation Modelling in Urban Areas Using WMS, HEC-RAS and GIS (Case Study in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia)  (Kuswantoro Marko, Amro Elfeki, Nassir Alamri, Anis Chaabani)....Pages 265-267
 Detecting Recent Deformation Patterns Using Geomorphometric Indices and Remote Sensing: A Case Study from the Sahel of Sfax (Eastern Tunisia)  (Mourad El Koundi, Radhia Mansour, Abdessalem El Ghali)....Pages 269-271
 GIS Based Multi-criteria Analysis for Flood Risk Assessment: Case of Manouba Essijoumi Basin, NE Tunisia  (Salwa Saidi, Anis Ghattassi, Brice Anselme, Salem Bouri)....Pages 273-279
 Adaptation of MEDALUS Method for the Analysis Depicting Land Degradation in Oued Labiod Valley (Eastern Algeria)  (Bouhata Rabah, Bensekhria Aida)....Pages 281-285
 Measuring and Monitoring Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia: Inferences from InSAR  (Abdullah Othman)....Pages 287-291
 GIS and Remote Sensing-based Approach for Desert Risk Reduction  (Khamis Sayl)....Pages 293-296
Front Matter ....Pages 297-297
 Quantification of Groundwater Storage Variations and Stressed Areas Using Multi-temporal GRACE Data: A Case Study of Upper Indus Plains, Pakistan  (M. Amin, M. R. Khan, Ahsan Jamil)....Pages 299-304
 Groundwater Productivity Potential Mapping Using Logistic Regression and Boosted Tree Models: The Case of Okcheon City in Korea  (Saro Lee, Chang-Wook Lee, Jeong-Cheon Kim)....Pages 305-307
 Radar Space Measurements of the Deforming Trends at Northern Greece Resulting from Underground Water Activity  (Nikos Svigkas, Ioannis Papoutsis, Constantinos Loupasakis, Paraskevas Tsangaratos, Anastasia Kiratzi, Charalambos (Haris) Kontoes)....Pages 309-313
 Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zones for Hard Rock Region in Karnataka Using AHP and GIS  (Mohit Aggarwal, Subbarayan Saravanan, J. Jacinth Jennifer, D. Abijith)....Pages 315-317
Front Matter ....Pages 319-319
 Evaluating and Predicting Changes Occuring on Coastal Borders of the Jeddah City Using Satellite Images  (Hamdy Aboulela, Rashad Bantan, Ramadan Zeineldin)....Pages 321-327
 Quantification of Phytoplanktonic Algae Density in Algiers Bay (Algeria) by Combining In Situ Measurements and Landsat Satellite Images  (Redouane Boufeniza, Fouzia Bachari Houma, Mohammad Alsahli, Nour el Islam Bachari)....Pages 329-332
 Active-Fault Controlled Fluvial Geomorphology Along the Coastal Plain of Odisha: East Coast of India  (Chinmay Dash, Pitambar Pati)....Pages 333-337
 Evaluation of Coastal Vulnerability and Exposure to the Risk of Erosion and Submersion in the Coasts of Bou Ismail Bay  (Walid Chaib, Mokhtar Guerfi, Yacine Hemdane)....Pages 339-342
 Oil Pollution in the Persian Gulf: Satellite-Monitoring Results in 2017  (Natalia Evtushenko, Andrey Ivanov, Vyacheslav Evtushenko)....Pages 343-347
Front Matter ....Pages 349-349
 Aerosol Optical Depth of Dust in Urban and Desert Area of Kuwait  (Noor Al-Dousari, Ali Al-Dousari, Modhi Ahmad)....Pages 351-353
 Seasonal Air Pollution Investigation and Relation Analysis of Air Pollution Parameters to Meteorological Data (Kocaeli/Turkey)  (Arzu Erener, Gülcan Sarp, Özge Yıldırım)....Pages 355-358
 High Resolution Passive Microwave Sounder Observation on South Indian Region Using Megha-Tropiques Payload  (M. P. Vasudha, G. Raju)....Pages 359-361