Impact of land use/land cover changes on groundwater resources in Al Ain region of the United Arab Emirates using remote sensing and GIS techniques

Liaqat, Muhammad Usman; Mohamed, Mohamed M.; Chowdhury, R. K.; Elmahdy, Samy Ismail; Khan, Qasim; Ansari, Rubina

doi:10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100587

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“…Liaqat et al [27] evaluated the impact of urban expansion on the demand for groundwater resources in Al Ain city from 2006 to 2016. The demand is classified based on the requirements of land-use growth, which is obtained by tracing the changes on satellite data over the study period.…”

Section: Hydrological Issues Associated With Urban Growthmentioning

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A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates

Almheiri

Rustum

Wright

et al. 2023

Water

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The increasing interest in hydrological studies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has resulted in the publication of several papers on hydrology and its broad use for addressing contemporaneous challenges confronting humans and the environment in the region. However, for several reasons, these efforts have remained invisible and unrecognized. This paper has reviewed the literature on hydrological research in the UAE to provide a comprehensive source of information for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders. The documented studies were carefully selected, relying on a bibliometric analysis methodology of five phases to specify the boundary of the study area, adopt the primary keywords for the search, evaluate the obtained papers, exclude the non-conforming ones, and classify the final results into four distinguished topics—namely, rainfall analysis, urban growth and flood hazards, cloud seeding and changing climate, and groundwater situation and utilization. The evaluation process considered assessing the papers’ relevancy, authenticity, and coverage of the main issues of interest. In all, a total of 50 published papers were identified based on the specified criteria and reviewed. The main findings were first that the amount of rainfall over the UAE has been declining in the last decade, and this trend is expected to continue, although intensities are rising, suggesting shorter duration events. Secondly, the extensive urban growth in the country has resulted in increasing incidences of urban floods and declining groundwater recharge. Both of these are to be expected as consequences of the increased imperviousness from urbanization and the higher intensities from shorter-duration rainfall events. Thirdly, although the cloud-seeding program has proved to be successful in increasing precipitation amounts, the impact of this on flooding due to more extreme rainfall intensities and on air quality remains worrisome. Finally, groundwater analyses have shown that it is still the main freshwater resource in the country, but its long-term sustainability and quality are being threatened by the declining recharge. This calls for a national policy for groundwater management in the UAE to tackle the challenges associated with the increasing demand for water in all sectors of the economy. The study recommended addressing the gap in the hydrological literature of the UAE, specifically in the field of big meteorological data analysis, the socioeconomic impacts of urban floods, the impacts of climate change in urbanized regions, and the possibility of using alternative resources to recharge groundwater as part of sustainable water management.

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Section: Hydrological Issues Associated With Urban Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates

Almheiri

Rustum

Wright

et al. 2023

Water

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“…The maximum likelihood classifier (MLC) was performed to produce LULC maps. MLC, which is one of the most precise supervised classifiers (Lillesand and Kiefer, 1994;Liaqat et al, 2021), requires using an adequate number of training samples that represent distinct spectral signatures of land cover classes. Depending on the FCC images, which were gathered with old maps and Google Earth imagery, the regions of interest (ROIs) samples were visually determined using image interpretation keys (tone, shape, and association between land covers).…”

Section: Retrieving and Classification Of Land Use/land Covermentioning

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Multi-temporal analysis of Coastal Urbanization and Land Cover Changes in Suez City, Egypt Using Remote Sensing and GIS

Gemail

Sugita

Saada

et al. 2022

Frontiers in Scientific Research and Technology

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“…Spatialtemporal variability influence groundwater especially water recharge and groundwater storage. Some studies reported drawbacks to groundwater due to land use degradation and climate change (Goderniaux et al, 2011;Liaqat et al, 2021). Whereas, groundwater is a primary factor in water balance as contributes around one-third of the annual water source and imperative for domestic freshwater resources (Yeh et al, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Groundwater Potential Zone Classification Using Geospatial Approach

Hardanto

Mustofa

Ardiansyah

2023

JTEP-L

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Groundwater is an important process in the watershed hydrological system. Serayu watershed, the largest in Central Java Province, has bio-physic spatial variability that influences groundwater recharging. The aim is to derive the groundwater potential zone of the Serayu watershed. Five thematic maps used and applied for groundwater potential analysis, were lithology, land use land cover, lineament density, drainage density, and slope gradient. Distribution of Lithology data, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and Landsat 8 image were analyzed to thematic raster with 1 x 1 km resolution. Weighted index was calculated regarding the relation of five influence parameters then were overlaid and calculated by using QGIS-calculator. Groundwater classified into five categories, namely poor, low, moderate, good, and very good. Based on the final groundwater potential map, 0.02% of 3,727 km2 is poor category, however most of Serayu watershed have moderate to good (48.77 and 29.77 %, respectively). The percentage of very good (10.57%) and low (10.87%) classes were rather similar. Spatial variability of groundwater distribution indicates the complex characteristics of the Serayu watershed, so more serious attention from the perspective of research and management of water resources in the future, is needed. Keywords: Groundwater, Multi-criteria, QGIS, Recharging, Serayu watershed.

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Impact of land use/land cover changes on groundwater resources in Al Ain region of the United Arab Emirates using remote sensing and GIS techniques

Cited by 46 publications

References 28 publications

A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates

A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates

Multi-temporal analysis of Coastal Urbanization and Land Cover Changes in Suez City, Egypt Using Remote Sensing and GIS

Groundwater Potential Zone Classification Using Geospatial Approach

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