Remote sensing of agriculture change in Oman

Harris, Ray

doi:10.1080/0143116031000068178

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“…In a country like Oman, where mountains and valleys are enclosing the capital area within a thin coastal strip, any flat land in this territory was good to be built. Therefore, the old urban centers and agricultural lands of Al-Batinah have dramatically shrunk under the pressure of an urban sprawl facilitated by the improvement in transportation infrastructure in this region [22], [23]. With the exception of relatively rare studies [24]- [26], research is very limited about the effect of urbanization on the traditional towns and villages in Oman.…”

Section: The Urban Expansions Infringe Agricultural Lands and Traditimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since the early 1980s, French and German researchers led the progress of modern Oman studies. With specialties in social geography and anthropology, their research interest covered, among other topics, general geographical studies, urban development and socio-spatial transformations [22], [36]. After this first movement, Oman was mainly overlooked in the research about the Gulf.…”

Section: State Of the Research About Urbanization In Omanmentioning

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Urban Development in Oman: An Overview

Benkari

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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During the past two decades, the Gulf countries have experienced the most rapid urban growth in the world. The traditional societies in this region have been guilelessly opened on the market economy and western lifestyle. In spite the progress realized at many levels, these societies became victims of its consumerist style. This article aims to present an overview of the urban development in Oman since it started its 'modernization'. This study is not only interested in how the country has been developing since its "renaissance" in the 1970s, but also how does this development appear, compared to its traits in the neighboring Gulf countries. Based on the assumption that urban research is a tool of analysis that can enlighten future decisions and actions in the domain of urban development, this study is also a critical review of the published research about the urbanization in Oman since the 1970s. This research showed that, although it shares several aspects with what the other Gulf cities have witnessed, urbanization in Oman was slower, less drastic and relatively more controlled. The scrutiny of the published research on this topic also revealed that the urban studies about Oman, and the GCC countries in general, were insignificant before the rise of leading cities such as Dubai, then Doha, to the international scene. It concluded that even if these urban studies have progressively broadened in their topics, disciplines and case studies, their effect on the new orientations chosen for the future developments in these countries remains negligible.

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Section: The Urban Expansions Infringe Agricultural Lands and Traditimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State Of the Research About Urbanization In Omanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Development in Oman: An Overview

Benkari

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…NDVI data are also affected by sensor degradation, orbital drift, cloud cover, the anisotropic and transmissive radiation properties of plant canopies, soil moisture and soil colour (Bannari et al 1995, Mennis 2001. For some arid and semi-arid regions, where bare soil reflectance accounts for a large percentage of the reflectance of a pixel (Harris 2003), soil colour and conditions may cause large NDVI variations spatially (Huete and Tucker 1991).…”

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Changing patterns of global‐scale vegetation photosynthesis, 1982–1999

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Harris

2005

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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Abstract. The primary objective of this research was to assess changes in global vegetation photosynthesis between 1982 and 1999. Global-scale AVHRR NDVI data from the PAL and GIMMS data sets were analysed for 96% of the nonAntarctic land area of the Earth. The results showed that over 30% of the Earth's surface increased and less than 5% decreased in annual average photosynthesis greater than 4%. Although both the PAL and GIMMS data sets produced broadly similar patterns of change, there were distinct differences between the two data sets. Changes in vegetation photosynthesis were occurring in spatial clusters across the globe and were being driven by climate change, ENSO events and human activity.

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“…Based on these findings, several studies were able to correlate spectral characteristics and vegetation health (Alhammadi and Glenn 2008;Peñuelas et al 1997;Wiegand et al 1992). However, date palm tree was not intensively studied with remote sensing due to the special characteristics of canopy structure and the variations of the tree spacing (Harris 2001, Alhammdi and Glenn 2008, Alhammadi 2010. Alhammadi and Glenn (2008) used two types of satellite sensors, Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) to study the health of date palm trees grown in salt-affected environment.…”

Section: Remote Sensing Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has the ability to observe vegetation changes at different periods, which assists in the study of vegetation change quickly and precisely (Alhammadi & Glenn, 2008;Howari, 2003;Jackson, 1986). Several attempts were carried out using various satellite sensors to study the date palm responses to salinity (Harris 2001;Alhammadi & Glenn 2008).…”

Section: Remote Sensing Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%