IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/onl/scmare/v2y2017i1p37-47id452.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Using Remote Sensing Techniques and Historical Records to Estimate Agricultural Area

Author

Listed:
  • Khalil A. A
  • A. A. A. Mohamed
  • Y.H. Essa

Abstract

Reliable and timely information on agricultural land area, crop production, and land use are of great importance to planners and policy makers for efficient agricultural development. This study aims to estimate of agricultural area using remote sensing data and historical records from Agricultural Statistics Bulletin (ASB) during the period from 2001 to 2013. The results showed that, there is variability between the data from remote sensing and historical records especially when in studying the separated regions. The estimated agricultural area by remote sensing data is higher than historical records data from ASB in all regions inside Nile Valley (lower, middle, and upper Egypt regions), while outside valley region found agricultural area in satellite data lower than observed in historical records data from ASB. The remote sensing technique discussed in this paper provides several improvements. It covers large geographical areas, the assessment is updated monthly, it is easily obtained, and inexpensive.

Suggested Citation

  • Khalil A. A & A. A. A. Mohamed & Y.H. Essa, 2017. "Using Remote Sensing Techniques and Historical Records to Estimate Agricultural Area," Scientific Modelling and Research, Online Science Publishing, vol. 2(1), pages 37-47.
    • Handle: RePEc:onl:scmare:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:37-47:id:452
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/smr/article/view/452/710
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/smr/article/view/452/1323
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:onl:scmare:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:37-47:id:452. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Pacharapa Naka (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.onlinesciencepublishing.com/index.php/smr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.