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Hyperspectral Based Assessment of Mosquito Breeding Water in Suez Canal Zone, Egypt

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Environmental Remote Sensing in Egypt

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Suez Canal Zone has an old history of diseases transmitted by mosquito such as Malaria, Lymphatic filariasis, West Nile virus and Rift Valley Fever virus. Water quality of mosquito breeding habitat represents an essential determinant of whether female mosquitoes will deposit their eggs and whether the resulting stages will complete their developmental process or not. Therefore, the objective of this study is to assess physical, chemical and spectral properties of mosquito breeding habitats in the Suez Canal Zone using hyperspectral data and spectral analyses. Fifty-two different sites were sampled, during February and April 2016, for mosquito larvae and were characterized based on water temperature, pH, Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP), Electrical Conductivity (EC), Turbidity, Chlorophyll, Dissolved oxygen (HDO), Crude Oil (CO), Salinity, and Organic Matter (OM). Data were statistically assessed by one-way ANOVA. Hyperion image and ASD Field Spectroradiometer were processed to generate an innovative spectral library for the investigated mosquito breeding habitats. Mosquito larvae were identified as Culex (3 spp.), Anopheles (1 sp.), Ochlerotatus (2 spp.) and Culiseta (1 sp.) at seven different habitats. Analyses showed that the spectral reflectance patterns were specific for each mosquito breeding habitat corresponding to the variability of water quality. Most of habitats reported high levels of total dissolved and suspended solids such as Turbidity, EC, and OM (i.e. >535.93 NTU, >16,642.05 µS/cm, and >38.31 mg/l, respectively). It can be concluded that hyperspectral data analyses help to give more feasible assessment of mosquito breeding habitats which should widely be utilized.

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Acknowledgements

The authors expresses their sincere appreciations and gratitude to the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) for pasturing the study and development project “Modeling spatial/temporal distribution of mosquito breeding habitats and monitoring environmental factors associated with the proliferation in Suez Canal Zone, using remote sensing and GIS” (Period 2014–2016) through which the study data was acquired. Also, to the United States Geological Survey (https://glovis.usgs.gov/) for supporting Landsat-8 (OLI) and Hyperion images.

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    Asmaa El-Hefni, Ahmed M. El-Zeiny & Mohamed Sowilem

  2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science (Girls Branch), Al-Azhar University, Al Nasr Road, Opposite to Cairo International Conference Center, P.O. Box: 11751, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

    Manal Elshaier & Wedad Atwa

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El-Hefni, A., El-Zeiny, A.M., Sowilem, M., Elshaier, M., Atwa, W. (2020). Hyperspectral Based Assessment of Mosquito Breeding Water in Suez Canal Zone, Egypt. 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_7

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