Use of radar data to unveil the paleolakes and the ancestral course of Wadi El-Arish, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

AbuBakr, Mostafa; Ghoneim, Eman; El-Baz, Farouk; Zeneldin, Mahmoud; Zeid, Salah A. M.

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.005

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“…Optical imagery can be utilized to map surface features, present land cover/use, vegetation distribution patterns in addition to lithological details of the study area. Space-borne radar images, on the other hand, are a powerful tool in mapping surface roughness and sand-buried fluvial features such as paleo river courses and lakebeds (e.g., Mccauley et al, 1982;Ghoneim & El-Baz, 2007;AbuBakr et al, 2013). In addition, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is the most common source of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and powerful in delineating the surface drainage networks (e.g., Ghoneim et al, 2007).…”

Section: Remote Sensing Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This indexing has been developed based on the authors previous experience in geologic, hydrogeologic, and geospatial researches in some regions with similar conditions (e.g., AbuBakr et al, 2013;Abrams et al, 2018). Furthermore, field investigations in the study area and literature review were significantly contributed in the assignment of the GWP indexing.…”

Section: Semi-quantitative Weighted Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integration of Geospatial Techniques for Mapping Groundwater Potentialities in El-Qaa Plain, Southwest Sinai, Egypt

2018

Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science

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Groundwater represents the essential source of fresh water in most arid regions, such as the Sinai Peninsula. Exploration of groundwater resources in dry lands requires survey of vast areas with conventional land-based techniques. This study performs criteria for groundwater probabilities in the southwestern part of Sinai Peninsula by mapping Groundwater Potential (GWP) using advanced remote sensing and geospatial techniques along with field validation, as a complemented tool for the conventional land-based methods. The main goal of this work is delineating groundwater recharging by identifying and examining the influence of physiographic variables that affecting groundwater storage. Therefore, multi-sensors remote sensing data from ASTER, Landsat-8, MODIS, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), and Radarsat-1 were used to construct several geospatial thematic layers (variables). These layers include elevation, slope, curvature, drainage density, topographic wetness index, surface roughness, frequency of thermal anomaly, accumulated precipitation, Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and lineament density. All variables were arranged and weighted based on their contributions in groundwater recharge through infiltration and percolation processes of near surface aquifers. The Simple Additive Weight (SAW) method was adopted for computing the variables weights and producing the GWP map. This aggregated map was then classified into 5 classes, from very high to very low potentiality zones. The highest GWP zone was defined along Wadi El-Awaj, the northern part of Wadi Araba, and near the outlets of several wadies south of El-Tour City. The GWP was observed to be associated with low terrain, high surface ruggedness, increased drainage and lineament densities, and relatively close to thermal anomalies in wadi deposits and adjacent sandy areas. The results were validated by field observations including, soil infiltration rate, water wells data and vegetation patterns in the study area. Based on the outcomes, remote sensing data along with geospatial techniques can provide a powerful tool for groundwater probabilities in arid lands, and thus can be applied in regions with similar conditions, such as the Middle East countries.

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Section: Remote Sensing Datamentioning

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Integration of Geospatial Techniques for Mapping Groundwater Potentialities in El-Qaa Plain, Southwest Sinai, Egypt

2018

Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science

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“…2012; Tooth, 2013; Saville, 2013; AbuBakr et al . 2013), which limits the usefulness of GIS for analysing such regions. In this study, the problem of erroneous DEM terrain elevations was rectified by importing a hand-corrected 90m Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM into Global Mapper (J. de Ferranti & C. Hormann, unpub.…”

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“…For example, AbuBakr et al . (2013) used Google Earth to manually trace faults and lineaments in the Sinai Peninsula and Fisher et al . (2012) measured fault slip using Google-Earth-hosted imagery of the Owens Valley of California.…”

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Reconstruction of ancestral drainage patterns in an internally draining region, Fars Province, Iran

Lee¹

2015

Geol. Mag.

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Google Earth imagery is used here in conjunction with a Geographic Information System to identify transverse drainages and recreate palaeodrainage in an internally draining region in Iran. At least 35 water gaps and 34 wind gaps are shown to exist in the region, as well as evidence for an integrated palaeodrainage that originated north of the internally draining region and emptied into the Mand watershed to the west. The topographic characteristics of the transverse drainages suggest a strong control by local topography, and support formation of the internally draining region by basin filling and overflow. Both climatic and tectonic factors may have controlled the loss of external connectivity.

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“…Regional geomorphological syntheses are available since the introduction of satellite imageries (e.g. AbuBakr, Ghoneim, El-Baz, Zeneldin, & Zeid, 2013;El-Baz, 2000;El-Baz & Warner, 1979;Ghoneim & El-Baz, 2007;McCauley et al, 1982;Perego, Zerboni, & Cremaschi, 2011;Pesce, 1969;Petit-Maire & Page, 1992;Robinson, El-Baz, Al-Saud, & Jeon, 2006;Symeonakis & Drake, 2004): they illustrate the main aspects of the landscape, but in many cases they were drawn without accurate field control. In contrast, detailed geomorphological maps of some localities are available, but with scarce reference to large-scale processes.…”

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Geomorphological Map of the Tadrart Acacus Massif and the Erg Uan Kasa (Libyan Central Sahara)

2014

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Here we present a geomorphological map of the Tadrart Acacus Massif and Erg Uan Kasa (SW Libya, central Sahara). The geomorphological mapping of the area was carried out by means of satellite imagery analysis followed by detailed control of units in the field. The Tadrart Acacus is a sandstone massif delimited to the West by a high scarp and cut by a dendritic fossil drainage network of W-E-oriented wadis. The massif has been shaped since the Tertiary by etchplanation and solutional processes; the latter is demonstrated by the ruiniform landscape and the high number of caves and rock shelters that dot the vertical cliffs of the wadis. To the East, the Tadrart Acacus merges below a complex system of sand ridges that form the Erg Uan Kasa. The large interdune corridors of the sand sea are dotted by lake sediments, which formed during the Pleistocene interglacials and the African Humid Period of the Holocene, when piezometric lakes were sustained by intense monsoonal rainfall. Geomorphological investigation demonstrates that the extant landscape originated thanks to the overlap of surface processes triggered by divergent (humid/arid) environmental conditions.

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Use of radar data to unveil the paleolakes and the ancestral course of Wadi El-Arish, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Integration of Geospatial Techniques for Mapping Groundwater Potentialities in El-Qaa Plain, Southwest Sinai, Egypt

Integration of Geospatial Techniques for Mapping Groundwater Potentialities in El-Qaa Plain, Southwest Sinai, Egypt

Reconstruction of ancestral drainage patterns in an internally draining region, Fars Province, Iran

Geomorphological Map of the Tadrart Acacus Massif and the Erg Uan Kasa (Libyan Central Sahara)

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