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Corresponding Author

Ahmed A. F. Abd El Hamed

Subject Area

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Article Type

Case Study

Abstract

Understanding land use / land cover changes is essential for planning sustainable development. It represents the transformation of the land due to human activities, which is related to sustainable development that aims to achieve the needs of the present generations without affecting the future. Land use / Land cover is studied in Al Alamein region, northern Egypt, with supervised classification methods using satellite images from Landsat 8 and Sentinel - 2A in 2023 and analyzes the accuracy assessment, which shows Maximum likelihood is better in both sensors achieving overall accuracy (91.80% and 91.02%) and kappa coefficient (0.814 and 0.8799). Then indices are applied in 2013, 2018, and 2023 using Landsat 8 data. The results of accuracy assessment show that SAVI for vegetation, WVWI for water, and NDBI for urban are the suitable indices for the study area. Moreover, increasing ratios are calculated which provides data for decision makers.

Keywords

Land use, Land cover, indices, accuracy assessment, sustainability

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