NARSS
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences

The objective of this study was to assess the current situation of Damietta area for the possibility of agricultural expansion and to identify priorities for the optimal use of integrated development in the region using remote sensing and GIS techniques.

July 01, 2017

The Egyptian government is exerting great efforts to establish horizontal agricultural expansion projects in addition to creating new urban communities in the desert areas to fill the food gap resulting from population increase, relieve population pressure from the valley and the Delta, create wide investment opportunities, increase national income and create new job opportunities. The practical purpose of this study was to assess the current situation of the Damietta area for the possibility of agricultural expansion and to identify priorities for the optimal use of integrated development in the region using remote sensing and GIS techniques.

Division : Agriculture Applications, Soils, and Marine
Prof       : Prof.Dr.Abdel-Aziz Belal
About NARSS

NARSS has been established in 1991 as a General Authority for Remote Sensing belongs to the Ministry of State for Scientific Research.

NARSS was then organizationally restructured in 1994; following the Presidential Decree No. 261 for 1992, as a National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences belongs to the Ministry of Scientific Research.

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  • Phone : (202)26251299 - (202)26251200

  • Fax : (202)26225800 - (202)26225833

  • E-mail : info@narss.sci.eg

  • Address : 23 Joseph Tito Street, El-Nozha El-Gedida (P.O. Box : 1564 Alf Maskan).

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