The combined impact of shallow groundwater and soil salinity on evapotranspiration using remote sensing in an agricultural alluvial setting

dc.creatorAboelsoud, Hesham
dc.creatorHabib, Ayman
dc.creatorEngel, Bernard A.
dc.creatorHashem, Ahmed A.
dc.creatorEl-Hassan, Waleed Abou
dc.creatorGovind, Ajit
dc.creatorElnashar, Abdelrazek
dc.creatorEid, Mona
dc.creatorKheir, Ahmed M.S.
dc.date2023-06-01
dc.date2024-09-11T17:22:23Z
dc.date2024-09-11T17:22:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:23:28Z
dc.descriptionStudy region: The Nile Delta, Egypt Study focus: Shallow groundwater (GW) and soil salinity are major issues for irrigated agriculture, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, but more research is needed to link both issues with evapotranspiration. Satellite-based evapotranspiration from Landsat images (ETLS) has the potential to be an efficient method of estimating evapotranspiration (ET), which can integrate ETLS with groundwater and soil salinity, particularly in data-scarce areas. This study examines shallow GW and soil salinity effects on crop water use in the North Nile Delta during the summer season of 2017 and winter season of 2017/2018. New hydrological insights for the region: The ETLS was moderately affected by groundwater depth (GWD), decreasing from 4.3 to 4.0 mm day− 1 when GWD was reduced from 75 to 120 cm, then increasing to 4.4 mm day− 1 when GWD was increased to 140 cm. The study also highlighted a significant negative correlation between ETgw and GWD; which increased with shallower GW (>75 cm) and then decreased with deeper GW. The shallower the GW, the greater the contribution to crop water requirements, with GW contributing 1.6 and 1.7 mm day− 1 for seed melon and cotton, respectively, while GW contributed 0.9 mm day− 1 for sugar beet and 1.3 mm day− 1 for wheat and clover. The study’s findings highlight the importance of remote sensing and GIS techniques for quickly and cheaply assessing the impact of shallow GW and soil salinity on evapotranspiration over large geographic areas.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152178
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/78296
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHesham Aboelsoud, Ayman Habib, Bernard A. Engel, Ahmed A. Hashem, Waleed Abou El-Hassan, Ajit Govind, Abdelrazek Elnashar, Mona Eid, Ahmed M. S. Kheir. (1/6/2023). The combined impact of shallow groundwater and soil salinity on evapotranspiration using remote sensing in an agricultural alluvial setting. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 47.
dc.subjectgroundwater
dc.subjectremote sensing
dc.subjectcrop water use
dc.subjectlandsat 8
dc.subjectarid regions eddy covariance
dc.titleThe combined impact of shallow groundwater and soil salinity on evapotranspiration using remote sensing in an agricultural alluvial setting
dc.typeJournal Article

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