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Spectral Indices Based Study to Evaluate and Model Surface Water Quality of Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Beni Suef governorate is one of highly population density areas in northern Upper Egypt. The surface water in Beni Suef district suffer from pollution due to the impact of anthropogenic activities such as usage of fertilizers and pesticide, waste disposal, industrial wastes and wastewater. The present study aims to estimate the Water Quality Index (WQI) and concentration of some other parameters through applying water quality estimation models based on Remote Sensing techniques applied on Landsat 8 OLI satellite images. Thirty-four points distributed among the study area are used for the analysis and to compare the data with the results obtained from analyzing water samples tested in the laboratory to investigate the feasibility of utilizing remote sensing data to identify water quality. In the present study, integrated technologies of remote sensing and water quality have been successfully utilized to assess water pollution in the study area and give an explanation for the influence of urbanization, cultivation and other human activities on water quality. The results showed that there are four classes of WQI for surface water samples, about 6 % belong to the excellent class, 65% to good class, 20.6% to poor class and the rest of samples belong to very poor class, while no samples belong to unsuitable class. It could be noted that the very poor category of WQI belongs to Bahr Yusef Canal. on other hand the main classes obtained from the supervised classification show that the agricultural land dominated the whole study area with 75%, which might have an impact on water quality in the study area. The second dominant class is represented by urban areas with 11%. The third class was bare land with 10 %, which are distributed in several separate parts in the study area. The fourth class represented by water bodies with 4%. The most appropriate models which calculated from water indices, band ratios and combination bands of the satellite image for the study area are very significant to detect water quality parameters. They also show the same results as the set of field data which measured from the laboratory tests. It is recommended to continue in the study of water quality by remote sensing techniques.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.112759.5121

Keywords

water quality, Remote Sensing, Water Pollution, surface water, Beni Suef Governorate

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Mohammed

MiddleName

Saad

Affiliation

Geology Department,Faculty of Science,Beni Suef University,Beni Suef

Email

mahmoudsad2000@gmail.com

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First Name

Salwa

Last Name

Elbeih

MiddleName

Farouk

Affiliation

Prof., Engineering Applications Department, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt

Email

saelbeih@gmail.com

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First Name

Essam

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Beni-suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511, Egypt

Email

hassaan69@yahoo.com

City

Beni-Suef

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First Name

Hend

Last Name

Abu Salem

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

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hendsaeed@gmail.com

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ibrahim

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Affiliation

Geology Department, Faculty of Science,Beni-Suef University

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ibrahim.mohamed42@yahoo.com

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First Name

ElSayed

Last Name

ElSayed

MiddleName

ElBastamy

Affiliation

Central Laboratory for Environmental Quality Monitoring (CLEQM), NWRC, Egypt.

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teta707@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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Volume

65

Article Issue

10

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34864

Issue Date

2022-10-01

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2021-12-24

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2022-10-01

Page Start

631

Page End

645

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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22 Jan 2023