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Contents
Remote Sensing and GIS for Land Use/Land Cover Change
Detection in Dakhla Oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Adel Shalaby and Hossam S. Khedr
Crop Diversification and Its Efficiency in Rashda Village, Dakhla
Oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Erina Iwasaki and Kenichi Kashiwagi
Hydrological Aspects and Water Resources
Hydrologeological and Hydrological Conditions of Dakhla Oasis . . . . . . . 185
Salwa F. Elbeih and Elsayed A. Zaghloul
History of Wells in Rashda Village, Dakhla Oasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Erina Iwasaki
Development of Land Use and Groundwater in Rashda Village
(Dakhla Oasis), 1960s–2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Erina Iwasaki, Adel Shalaby, Salwa F. Elbeih, and Hossam S. Khedr
Detecting and Controlling the Waterlogging in Dakhla Basin . . . . . . . . . . 241
El-Sayed E. Omran
Hydrogeophysical Investigations Using DC Resistivity Survey
to Assess the Water Potentialities of the Shallow Aquifer Zone
in East of Dakhla Oasis, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Khaled S. Gemail, Alaa A. Masoud, Mohamed M. El-Horiny,
Mohamed G. Atwia, and Katsuaki Koike
Conclusions
Update, Conclusions, and Recommendations of “Sustainable
Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis” . . . . . . . . . 287
Erina Iwasaki, Abdelazim M. Negm, and Salwa F. Elbeih