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6 Recommendations
As an output of this extensive study, a number of recommendations could be
extracted:
1. Assessment of impacts of the ongoing land reclamation is in urgent need. Since
land use development is related to the well digging, water depth, and quality, it
requires the study on the groundwater quality and groundwater levels.
2. The study of the drainage ponds is also an urgent need. Accumulation of drainage
water in the desert land will be an obstacle for agricultural development.
3. Further study is required to detect the behavior of the stackholders on the groundwater usage. Especially, the study of the farmers and enterprises that invested
on “surface springs” and “investment wells” is required to detect the ongoing
process of well development and changes in land use.
4. A full database of existing wells should be available from the irrigation directorate in Dakhla Oasis. This database includes all available information for each
well (including depth to water and water quality). This information will help
in studying the exact relationship between land use and water quality of the
groundwater in the study area.
References
Devadas R, Denham RJ, Pringle M (2012) Support vector machine classification of object-based
data for crop mapping, using multi-temporal Landsat imagery. Int Arch Photogramm Remote
Sens Spat Inf Sci 39:185–190
Hegazy IR, Kaloop MR (2015) Monitoring urban growth and land use change detection with
GIS and remote sensing techniques in Daqahlia governorate Egypt. Int J Sustain Built Environ
4(1):117–124
Kato H, Iwasaki E (2008) Rashda. A village in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Mediterranean World 19,
Hitotsubashi University
Kato H, Iwasaki E, Nagasawa E, Anyoji H, Matsuoka N, Kimura R (2010) Rashda: system of
irrigation and cultivation in a village in Dakhla Oasis. Mediterranean World 20:1–15
Kato H, Kimura R, Elbeih SF, Iwasaki E, Zaghloul EA (2012) Land use change and crop rotation
analysis of a government well district in Rashda village—Dakhla Oasis, Egypt based on satellite
data. Egypt J Remote Sens Space Sci 15(2):185–195
Kato H, Elbeih S, Iwasaki E, Sefelnasr A, Shalaby A, Zaghloul E (2014) The relationship between
groundwater, landuse, and demography in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. J Asian Netw GIS-Based Hist
Stud 2:3–10
Saleem A, Corner R, Awange J (2018) On the possibility of using CORONA and Landsat data for
evaluating and mapping long-term LULC: case study of Iraqi Kurdistan. Appl Geogr 90:145–154
E. Iwasaki et al.
6 Recommendations
As an output of this extensive study, a number of recommendations could be
extracted:
1. Assessment of impacts of the ongoing land reclamation is in urgent need. Since
land use development is related to the well digging, water depth, and quality, it
requires the study on the groundwater quality and groundwater levels.
2. The study of the drainage ponds is also an urgent need. Accumulation of drainage
water in the desert land will be an obstacle for agricultural development.
3. Further study is required to detect the behavior of the stackholders on the groundwater usage. Especially, the study of the farmers and enterprises that invested
on “surface springs” and “investment wells” is required to detect the ongoing
process of well development and changes in land use.
4. A full database of existing wells should be available from the irrigation directorate in Dakhla Oasis. This database includes all available information for each
well (including depth to water and water quality). This information will help
in studying the exact relationship between land use and water quality of the
groundwater in the study area.
References
Devadas R, Denham RJ, Pringle M (2012) Support vector machine classification of object-based
data for crop mapping, using multi-temporal Landsat imagery. Int Arch Photogramm Remote
Sens Spat Inf Sci 39:185–190
Hegazy IR, Kaloop MR (2015) Monitoring urban growth and land use change detection with
GIS and remote sensing techniques in Daqahlia governorate Egypt. Int J Sustain Built Environ
4(1):117–124
Kato H, Iwasaki E (2008) Rashda. A village in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Mediterranean World 19,
Hitotsubashi University
Kato H, Iwasaki E, Nagasawa E, Anyoji H, Matsuoka N, Kimura R (2010) Rashda: system of
irrigation and cultivation in a village in Dakhla Oasis. Mediterranean World 20:1–15
Kato H, Kimura R, Elbeih SF, Iwasaki E, Zaghloul EA (2012) Land use change and crop rotation
analysis of a government well district in Rashda village—Dakhla Oasis, Egypt based on satellite
data. Egypt J Remote Sens Space Sci 15(2):185–195
Kato H, Elbeih S, Iwasaki E, Sefelnasr A, Shalaby A, Zaghloul E (2014) The relationship between
groundwater, landuse, and demography in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. J Asian Netw GIS-Based Hist
Stud 2:3–10
Saleem A, Corner R, Awange J (2018) On the possibility of using CORONA and Landsat data for
evaluating and mapping long-term LULC: case study of Iraqi Kurdistan. Appl Geogr 90:145–154