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This chapter introduces the book “Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya”, and summarizes all the chapters presented in this book. The chapters of this book focus on the use and the role of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques in understanding, monitoring, and investigating the extent of environmental disturbance (e.g., desertification, salinization, deforestation, land use changes, etc.) on the surface of the Earth. A wide range of applications for environmental planning and management topics are discussed in the book’s chapters including monitoring and map** soil salinity and prediction of soil properties, monitoring and map** of land degradation, spatiotemporal land cover/land use, agricultural drought monitoring, and hydrological applications such as spatial rainfall distribution, surface runoff, geo-morphometric analysis, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and climate-related geophysical processes.
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CEDARE (2014) Libya water sector M & E rapid assessment report. Monitoring and evaluation for water in North Africa (MEWINA) project, Water Resources Management Program, CEDARE. Available online: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/assessments/libya_water_sector_me_rapid_assessment_2014.pdf. Accessed on 6 Dec 2021
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Hamdi A. Zurqani: conceptualization, methodology, supervision, software, data curation, formal analysis, validation, investigation, writing-original draft, visualization, writing—review and editing, review of analysis. The author has read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Zurqani, H.A. (2022). Introduction to Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya. In: Zurqani, H.A. (eds) Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97810-5_1
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