Successful participants in this programme are awarded a double/joint degree in their chosen field, by the Egyptian and European partners. Five main fields are offered within this programme:

 

• 1- Costal & Environmental Management 
• 2- Water Resources Management
• 3- Urban Water Management
• 4- Groundwater Modeling
• 5- Industrial use of Minerals and Rocks

 

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Sand dunes are common landforms which occupies 16% of Egypt landscapes. These sand dunes are actively migrating representing a major threat on the human activities. Detecting the magnitude of sand dune migration as well as the direction could help reduce their threats. The conventional methodologies fail to provide a wide coverage with both magnitudes and directions of sand dune movements, particularly in complicated sand dune areas like North Sinai. The imageodesy technique using the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) algorithm has been automated on SPOT 4 L1A panchromatic multi-temporal images to determine the magnitude and direction of sand dune movement. This technique is able to determine the spatial true pixel offset given the removal of the spatial false pixel offset that result from the artifacts of sensor systems along with the topographic errors. Eventually, the technique produced vector displacement field. The length of the vector arrows indicate for the magnitude of the sand dune movements, however the arrow denotes for the direction of movements. The figure below shows an example of both the magnitude and direction of sand dune movements in a particular location of the study area with high level of accuracy comparing with the field studies and previous literatures. Although, these measurements have been carried out using medium resolution satellite imagery, it generates a high level of accuracy to the subpixel resolution. Further implementation using fine resolution satellite imagery is required to determine the smallest sand dune movements on the individual sand dunes.

Using SAR and ALOS Satellite data for the exploration of archaeological remains and sites around Dahshur area.

The project aims at updating the building material map of Egypt using Remote Sensing and GIS technologies.

The work of the project has been undertaken by keeping in mind two aspects: i) a study involving the production of geological maps to a scale 1: 250 000 for the Phanerozoic exposures of Sinai (carried in two Phases: South and North Sinai) and, ii) the training of a team of geologist to produce these maps according to most up to date geological practices. The training aspect of the work was covered by discussion between the members of the layer (on job training), seminars between members of the layer and members of other layers involved in the UNESCO/UNDP Project and seminars involving invited local experts. The training aspect has been also fulfilled in two field seminars (one in South Sinai and the other in North Sinai) involving 6 days trainning through the presentation and discussion of methodologies for the recognition in the field, classification and interpretation of rock units used for mapping. The field seminars, involving junior and senior staff members of both EGSMA and NARSS, was also a very useful training basis for teamwork between members of the two organizations. The finalized geological maps involve 12 sheets, established according to international standards and subdivisions on a 1: 250 000 scale. They have been prepared to be digitized and stored as a GIS layer

Ghard Abu Muharik dune field lies in the central part of the Western Desert of Egypt. It extends from the NE of the Baharia depression and runs in a southeastern direction to the depression of Kharga and further southward up to the Egypt-Sudan borders. In this region, important development plans are foreseen. Here, sustainable development can be impaired by hazards due to movements of dunes. The project is a contribution for the study of generation, evolution and mobility of the northern part of this dune field and its comparison to its southern part (“head” section of the field). Samples collected from the sand of the dunes at different locations have been subjected to XRD analysis, mechanical analysis, and their grains observed under a scanning electron microscope to investigate their surface characteristics. A geological map of the area surrounding the dune field is presented and new geomorphologic maps and 3D DEM of some selected areas have been prepared. The study gives clues to some aspects of the genesis, evolution and movement of the dune field. Different images acquired at different times (1974, 1984 and 2001) have been used to estimate the movements of single dunes, which proved to be directly proportional to dune sizes. The northern half of the part of the dune field studied in this work includes many tracks and projects for asphalt roads to rely the Bahariya and Farafra oases to the Nile Valley and to some significant sites visited by tourists (a cave situated at the eastern side of the dune fields). The paths of these roads should be carefully planed to avoid hazards caused by dune movements.

This project concerns the building materials and the industries based upon them in the Egypt and aims a new map for distribution of building materials such as limestone, sandstone, sands, gravels, clay, gypsum, granite, serpentinites, marble etc., by using Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS system. The work of the project includes a discussion of the industries which could be related to these materials and suggestions for future development plans in each governorate. This development includes the exploitation of building material in the concerned governorates and in the deserts surrounding them. This is done to help the decision makers and local authorities in the governorates in planning for sustainable development. It also includes the erection of housing settlements and new industrial areas aiming to prepare the stage to attract local and foreign capital and new investments. It also involves the establishment of industries based on the processing of the building material. All these activities should promote the urban, economic and social development of

The project aimed towards developing and implementing methodologies for using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) C/X Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) data to understand the tectonic evolution of El-Faiyum epression in the Western Desert of Egypt. We propose to link some tested methods of utilizing satellite imagery with new potentially more powerful remote sensing techniques and higher resolution active sensor SAR images have been used to map lithologies and structures of El-Faiyum Depression. One objective of our study is to evaluate the possibility of using radar interferometry to help monitor regions including large engineering structures, for any type of controls on deformation (tectonics, earthquakes, artificial loading as at Lake Qarun in El-Faiyum region). We will link these satellite techniques with field studies to determine the physical characteristics of the faults. This project is based on our experience in geologic studies of the NE Africa and and our success in using orbital remote sensing data to solve geologic problems in arid regions (Kusky et al., 2002; Kusky and Ramadan, 2002; Ramadan et al., 2001; El-Motaal and Ramadan, 1998).

The general objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive method for the study of the water use and the resistance to the drought of the natural and irrigated vegetation in north eastern coastal zone of Egypt, by means of a combined historical and current space-based remote sensing database, vegetation models and field measurements. A retrospective study of east Mediterranean Basin at the regional level, using NOAA – AVHRR, (5 km) data from 1981 to present. The using of such data will lead to improve water management practices in the coastal area for environment-friend and sustainable development as well as contributing to the design of a global information system for better management of water resources in the coastal area.

The main goal of this project can be summarized in updating the shoreline changes and seabed information of El-Dabaa coastal area, through qualitative detection of the erosion / accretion patterns along El-Dabaa coast based on remote sensing data, using LANDSAT Thematic Mapper "TM" (1984, 2000 and 2001), analyze shoreline variations between 1984 and 2001 from satellite LANDSAT Thematic Mapper "TM", in addition to identifying the bottom texture of the investigated area and the distribution of sedimentation patterns. A recent intensive survey during April 2001 serve to identify the erosion and accretion changes patterns occurred during the long term period (17 year).