Type | Journal Article - International Journal of Engineering Inventions |
Title | Investigation on the Impact and Spread of Mesquite in Tokar Delta Using (GIS) Technique |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 1 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2015 |
Page numbers | 20-25 |
URL | http://www.sustech.edu/staff_publications/20151101121303716.pdf |
Abstract | Mesquite ( Prosopis ) had been imported from its original home in North and South America, which is ranked as a desert plants, that bear all environmental conditions, it had been planted in the Tokar Delta, which is located in the Red Sea State in Sudan, as a belt against desert encroachment from which the city is suffering annually, but after few years These trees deployed in the Delta and became a new risk to the agricultural lands and the banks of Khor Baraka producing another problem. Now mesquite covers more than half of the delta's area causing negative impact on all of the agricultural lands, surface, ground water and irrigation channels. This paper is intended to assess the impact of the mesquite on the Tokar Delta and the impact of efforts to control the spread of mesquite trees over 30 years. Also to provide guidelines for the management and control of mesquite trees, using the capabilities of remote sensing and geographic information systems in producing layers of maps and attributes, showing the spatial extent of these trees in the Delta over the study periods of time, and conduct analysis to support decision makers to solve this serious problem |
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