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The chapter shows capabilities of high-resolution satellite optical imagery to monitor in details natural vegetation and agricultural fields around the Nile River. The course of the Nile was divided into 19 scenes of OLI Landsat-8 images acquired in July–September 2018 to show spatial and vegetation peculiarities of every sub-region. Besides, the NASA Giovanni online data system v.4.30, developed and maintained by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), was used to show seasonal and interannual (2000–2018) variability of NDVI as a measure of vegetation health. We did this analysis for the whole Egypt, the area around the Nile Valley, the Nile Delta, and two important agricultural areas of Egypt located along the Nile in the southern and northern part of the country. The obtained results show that during the past two decades, there is a general growth of NDVI in all observed areas, but with different rates. This is likely explained by the growth of arable and irrigated lands. For larger areas, like Egypt or the whole Nile River, two clear cycles of about 10 years were observed, which is likely explained by regional climate change oscillations.
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Analyses and visualizations used in this study were produced with the Giovanni online data system v.4.30, developed and maintained by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). A. G. Kostianoy was partially supported in the framework of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS budgetary financing (Project No. 149-2019-0004). Abdelazim M. Negm acknowledges the partial financial support from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) of Egypt via the bilateral collaboration Italian (CNR)–Egyptian (ASRT) project titled “Experimentation of the new Sentinel missions for the observation of inland water bodies on the course of the Nile River”.
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Kostianoy, A., Kostianaia, E.A., Soloviev, D.M., Negm, A.M. (2020). Satellite Monitoring of the Nile River and the Surrounding Vegetation. In: Elbeih, S., Negm, A., Kostianoy, A. (eds) Environmental Remote Sensing in Egypt. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39593-3_13
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