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Abstract
The Egyptian government and the private sector are interested in developing Aswan governorate, which represents a large future sustainable zone for different types of land use including agricultural, urbanization, wastewater disposal, landfill and industrial sites. The area is about 62726 km². However, the inhabited area does not exceed 2%. The current study focus on the analysis of the land use changes in the area since 1986 till 2003, by using the integration of RS data and GIS programs.
The interpretation and analysis of satellite images will be done through using the multi-temporal resolution images including Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM 1986) and (TM 1998) as well as Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+ 2003) using ENVI 4.7 digital image processing software and Arc GIS 9.3 supported with field and laboratory investigations.
The results showed that there were obvious changes in land use in the study area since 1986 till 2003 where it was found a lack of arable land and a shortage of the desert lands. On the other hand, the urbanized area increased. These lands were utilized for building and other activities.
The results also showed that although the reclaimed area increased but the old agricultural land changed to other uses such as building construction and other activities. This was clarified by producing maps showing the changes in land use.
The results of field and laboratory studies for 14 soil profiles that represented the soil types in Aswan governorate according to Soil Taxonomy showed that the studied soils that were classified down to the subgroup level recognized, namely Typic Quartzipsamments, Typic Torriflovents, Typic Torriorthents and Typic Haplotorrerts. Moreover, most of these soils had coarse texture and low calcium carbonate and salinity contents. The pH values of these soils ranged between 7.68 (moderately alkaline) to 8.88 (alkaline). Moreover, all of these soils contained low amounts of soluble cations and anions. They are considered normally. These soils may be suitable for cultivation of most crops.
Key word: RS, GIS, Land use map, Change detection, Aswan governorate.