dust storm monitoring in syria using nooa data and gis
- Paper number
IAC-14,B1,P,31,x26677
- Author
Dr. Ahmad Yaghi, Syria
- Coauthor
Mrs. Arwa Rassoq, General Organization of Remote Sensing (GORS), Syria
- Coauthor
Dr. Khansa Mulhem, Damascus University, Syria
- Year
2014
- Abstract
Dust storm Monitoring in Syria Using NOOA Data and GIS Dr Ahmad Yaghi Eng. Arwa Rassoq Dr Khansa Mulhem Dust storm is one of the environmental problems. They affect the urban and agricultural areas causing serious damages. They become popular phenomena in Syria especially in the Eastern part of the country. The people in that area are facing a serious health problems, damage for their agricultural lands and covering the infra structures like roads and rail ways. This research aims to monitor dust storms using NOOA data, producing the dust storms frequent maps using GIS and designs a simple model for estimating the horizontal visibility. NOOA data was a fast and geographically defining the dust storms and their directions and horizontal visibility estimating and GIS was a powerfull tool for mapping and defining the hot spot of affected areas in Syria. Key Words: Dust Storms, NOOA Data, GIS, Visibility
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