Agricultural land monitoring in the Egyptian Nile delta using Landsat data

摘要: The quest to bring new land under cultivation has been the cornerstone of Egyptian agricultural policy since 1950s. At same time, overpopulation in Nile delta and valley, gradual shifting economy from an industrial base together with different forms desertification processes have led loss highly fertile land. Therefore, there is urgent need address analyse these changes order serve development plans country. In this paper a maximum likelihood supervised classification was applied subsets Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) Enhanced (ETM +) images acquired on 26 March 1989 19 2001, respectively, monitor Eastern Delta Egypt between two dates. A carried out six reflective bands for individually ground truth data were used assess accuracy classification. Generally, ...