الفهرس 
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Abstract
The area of East Port Said is recently regarded as one of the most important Egyptian potential area that helps improving the Egyptian’s national income. The area is considered as one of the Egyptian good areas for reclamation, and ready to grow as a new one-million citizen-city with full life necessities. Shark El-Tafreaa area now includes a famous harbour for containers and transit-trade. However, many industrial, agricultural and touristic projects are strongly aimed to be initiated and established in such city.
Accordingly, the area requires many intensive and detailed studies to surface and subsurface conditions from the viewpoint of groundwater reservoirs, depth and quality. So, the present thesis comprises remote sensing studies, hydro-geochemical and hydro-geophysical investigations to achieve the aim of the work.
At first, Landsat and Radar-sat satellite images acquired for years 1984, 2010 and 2015 are used to detect temporal changes during period 1984-2015 coupled with field relations, verification, sampling and data treatments were conducted. The land units are defined and changes associated with land use and land cover properties are monitored by multi-temporal and multi-sensor Remote Sensing (RS) data.
After that, the hydro-geochemical analyses are conducted to highlight the groundwater quality of the Quaternary aquifer in the study area. To achieve this target, nineteen groundwater samples were collected and analyzed chemically with respect to major ions, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Cd, Pb, Sr, B, F and NO2. The obtained results revealed that groundwater samples are characterized by high water salinity contents. It has also high sodium and chloride contents.
Finally, geophysical methods have been used and applied to determine the depth of water table and illustrate the lateral and vertical variation of sedimentary sequence. Six deep vertical electrical soundings (VES) were conducted in the suitable area to construct two geo-electrical cross-sections (W-E) crossing the area. Analysis and interpretation of the obtained results reveals that, the geo-electrical cross sections consist of complete geo-electrical successions of four geo-electrical layers (which consist of sand and silt, clay, clayey silt and sand). The water table is interpreted from the geoelectrical study which found at less than 2 m from the ground level