Agricultural changes detection in Khartoum Area

Dissertant

Hamid, Muhammad al-Qurashi Khidr

Thesis advisor

al-Sinnari, Adil Muhammad Ahmad

University

Omdurman Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Agriculture

Department

Department of Crop Science

University Country

Sudan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2010

English Abstract

The research study work focused on agricultural land use changes in the Khartoum area with the aim of investigating the agricultural land use changes that has occurred in the Khartoum area from 1987 to 2000 using the remote sensing technique.

This is important for agricultural land use planning and sustainability monitoring to reduce the negative impact of agricultural land use for crop production and increase long term resource use and environmental sustainability. Two remote sensing methods were used for the classification analysis to identify the land use changes namely the NDVI and the parallelepiped classification techniques. The NDVI method was used to identify the changes in the agricultural land use vegetation cover classes and determine the magnitude of changes in land area use that has occurred from 1987 to 2000 when the former and latter remote sensing images were acquired.

The parallelepiped classification technique was however used to identify the aggregate agricultural land use changes in the area of study and conversion to and from other categories of land use.

A qualitative analytic technique was also used to identify the possible causes of the changes that have occurred in Khartoum area in the study period using empirical materials.

Main Subjects

Agriculture

Topics

• Agricultural development
• Agriculture
• Sudan
• Khartoum

No. of Pages

54

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-364069