الهيئة القومية للإستشعار عن بعد وعلوم الفضاء - القاهرة
Previous work of NARSS projects has covered the development of a comprehensive method for the study of the water use and the resistance to the drought of the natural and irrigated vegetation in North eastern region of Egypt by means of a combined historical and current space-based remote sensing database, vegetation models, and field measurements.
The general concept is to integrate all available data of the studied environments. NARSS has experience on activities related to:
1. Using NOAA – AVHRR, (5 km) data from 1981 to present. Also a set of higher resolution NOAAAVHRR, (1.1 km) acquired through the last ten years. These data could be used to:
1.1 Carry out a climatologic survey of the study area to distinguish the most susceptible areas to the drought. This allows studying the land cover change in the chosen time period.
1.2 Provide maps of critical parameters at regional scale, such as land surface temperature, missivity, atmospheric total water vapour content, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).
2. A study of water use efficiency in Egypt. This study could be made by using field measurements and high resolution imagery NARSS owns and operates an Aircraft for aerial mapping (with onboard GPS), Airborne laser data acquisition system, GPS, surveying and photogrammetric HW/SW (mobile mapping), Photographic processing and production laboratory, Remote sensing laboratory (ground station and RS satellite).
It has participated in over 300 projects on National and large scale surveying and mapping, Coastal erosion and desertification modeling, Transportation and energy studies, Land and water resources assessment, Soil and geological mapping, Natural hazards and environmental investigation.