US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Application of Remote Sensing/GIS Technique in Sustainable Development, Southern Egypt

0204156斯特恩描述：该奖项是为了支持德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UTD）岩石圈研究中心的Robert Stern博士和埃及开罗国家遥感和空间科学局（NARSS）的Mamdouh Abbriah博士的研究项目。 他们计划研究利用遥感地理数据帮助上埃及，特别是Aswan-Kom Ombo-Gallaba平原地区的发展。 这两名研究人员将重点了解努比亚隆起的构造抬升导致的中更新世排水重组，并确定新的地下水资源。该项目将有三个组成部分：1）利用探地雷达和挖沟调查古水系; 2）利用大地卫星专题成像仪和SPOT图像以及航天飞机成像雷达绘制地表和浅层地下水系和结构图; 3）建立地理信息科学数据库。 实地考察的重点是评估假设，即加拉巴平原是由一个埋藏的河道，排水东部沙漠。 遥感图像的处理和判读将为理解水系重组提供区域视角，并将用作地理信息系统的一个图层。这两位科学家计划建立一个完整的地理信息系统数据库，该数据库涵盖尼罗河两侧80公里宽的走廊，从阿斯旺向北延伸。 该项目将是一个由UTD在得克萨斯州和NARSS在Egypt.Scope的联合活动的延续：该提案汇集了新技术，地质雷达，遥感创建一个数据库，可用于确定更新世的历史排水在加拉巴平原地区。 埃及一百万年的气候变化表现为沙漠和尼罗河谷不同地区的几代不同的排水系统，这项研究是为了测试可能存在古老河道的地区之一。 这种认识将有助于确定新的地下水储量。 这项研究最终将改善埃及这一地区的供水，并可能改善对自然灾害的评估。 开发的数据库将用于科学研究和未来的发展努力。 这两个团队都是合格的，并且有着成功的合作记录，该项目的优势在于涉及美国的初级研究人员和研究生。 将对美国和埃及的研究人员进行关于使用探地雷达以及开发和使用地理信息系统数据库的培训。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

0204156SternDescription: This award is for support of a research project by Dr. Robert Stern, Center for Lithospheric Studies, University of Texas, Dallas (UTD), Dallas, Texas and Dr. Mamdouh Abdeen, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt. They plan to study the use of remotely sensed geographical data to help in the development in Upper Egypt, specifically the Aswan-Kom Ombo-Gallaba Plain region. The two investigators will focus on understanding mid-Pleistocene drainage reorganization resulting from tectonic uplift of the Nubian Swell, and on identification of new groundwater resources. The project will have three components: 1) Investigation of paleodrainages using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and trenching; 2) Mapping of surface and shallow subsurface drainages and structures using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and SPOT images and Shuttle Imaging Radar and 3) Building a Geographical Information Science (GIS) database. Fieldwork will focus on evaluating the hypothesis that the Gallaba Plain is underlain by a buried river channel, which drained the Eastern Desert. Processing and interpretation of remote sensing imagery will provide regional perspective for understanding drainage reorganization and will be used as a layer in the GIS. The two scientists plan to build up a complete GIS database of an 80 km wide corridor flanking the Nile and extending from Aswan north. This project will be a continuation of joint activities by UTD in Texas and the NARSS in Egypt.Scope: This proposal brings together new technology, GPR, and remote sensing to create a database that can be used to determine the Pleistocene history of drainage in the Gallaba plains region. A million years of climate change in Egypt are represented by several different generations of drainage in separate parts of the desert and Nile valley, and this research is to test one of the areas where an old river channel may exist. Such an understanding will potentially aid in the identification of new groundwater reserves. The research will ultimately lead to an improved supply of water for this region of Egypt, and possibly to an improved evaluation of natural hazards. The developed database will be of use for scientific studies and also for future development efforts. The two teams are qualified and have a successful record of past collaboration, and the project has the advantage of involving U.S. junior researchers and graduate students. There will be training of U.S. and Egyptian researchers in the use of the GPR and in the development and use of the GIS database. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.