Use of Remote Sensing and GIS to Analyze Drainage System in Flood Occurrence, Jeddah - Western Saudi Coast

摘要: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the major territory Arabian Peninsula, is located along an active tectonic zone Red Sea Rift System, which makes it unstable region, with complicated geology and geomorphology. Therefore, its known by several natural disasters that occurred in different regions country over past history, but they almost concentrated western coast, between Shield Sea, where area study situated. Several aspects hazards have been witnessed this area, mainly floods, earthquakes dust storms. These are usually considered inhabitants since a direct impact on their lifestyle, while other aspects, such as soil rock erosion, drought not.