Research Centres


Remote Sensing Centre - activities

I- Special Events

     Soil Map of Lebanon 1/50000 

II- Scientific Projects
A- Current Projects

1. Mapping watersheds in Lebanon and their sustainable management.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Amin Shaban
2. Establishing Mass Movements Susceptibility and Hazard maps for the Lebanese territory using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chadi Abdallah
3. Land cover/use map.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ghaleb Faour
4. Space atlas of Lebanon 2008.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ghaleb Faour
5. Paléobiogéographie et dynamiques écologiques au Liban: Analyses polliniques sur 15 ans.
Chercheur Principal: Dr. Carla Khater
6. Environmental and health risks of nitrates dynamics in the soil-groundwater-food chain.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Talal Darwish
7. Influences of land use changes on soil deposits: application of remote sensing and GIS to mountainous regions in Tunisia, Sweden and Lebanon.
Joint project with Lund University (Sweden) and RSC (Tunisia).
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rania Bou Kheir
8. Activation of mechanisms to sustain rural territories and communities in Lebanon (Tercom).
Joint project with CIHEAM-IAMB & MoA (Lebanon).
Principal Investigator: Dr. Talal Darwish

B- Ph.D. Theses

1. Mapping and long term monitoring fragmentation of Mediterranean forests in Lebanon using spatial landscape ecology and satellite images.
Chercheur Principal: Ihab Jomaa
2. Implementing an adaptive system for multi-component image classification and fusion.
Chercheur Principal: Mohamad Awad
3. Geomorphological dynamics and coastal risk in Lebanon: Contribution of remote sensing and GIS.
Chercheur Principal: Samer Al-Hachem

III- Main Recent Publications by staff

Year 2005

Apport de la télédétection et du SIG pour la cartographie du risque d’incendies de forêts, cas d’étude Liban
Authors: Faour, G., and Bou Kheir. R.
Journal: Revue de la Télédétection. Vol. 5, n°4, pp. 359-377.

Beirut: 40 years of urban growth.
Authors: Faour, G., Haddad T., Velut S., and Verdeil E.
Journal: Revue Mappemonde, N° 79, 12 pages: mappemonde.mgm.fr/num7/articles/art05305.pdf. (French)

Effectiveness of using very high resolution imagery (IKONOS) for land use mapping.
Authors: Faour, G., and Bou Kheir. R.
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/ip/techip_002pf.htm

Detecting major terrain parameters relating to mass movements' occurrence using GIS, remote sensing and statistical correlations, case study Lebanon.
Authors: Abdallah, C., Chorowicz, J., Bou Kheir, R., and Khawlie, M.
Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment 99 (2005) 448 – 461.

Modeling Lebanese Sea Coast Water Quality Using Telemac and GIS.
Authors: Awad, M., and Khawlie M.
ITI 6th Arab GIS Conference, Cairo, Egypt.

Salinity evolution and crop response to secondary soil salinity in two agro-climatic zones in Lebanon.
Authors: Darwish, T., Atallah, T., El Moujabber, M and Khatib, N.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management, 78 (2005): 152-164.2.

Inventory and management of Lebanese soils integrating the soil geographical database of Euro-Mediterranean countries.
Authors: Darwish, T., Jooma, I., Awad, M., Msann., J., and Aboudaher., M.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal, 6 (2):57-70.

Year 2006

Pollutants in Qaraaoun Lake, Central Lebanon.
Authors: Shaban, A., and Nassif, N.
Journal: Environmental Hydrology, 15(11) 2007.

Regional soil erosion risk assessment in Lebanon.
Authors: Bou Kheir, R., Cerdan, O. and Abdallah, C.
Journal: Geomorphology, 82:347-359.

Caractérisation sous SIG des incendies de forêts dans la région méditerranéenne: cas d’étude Liban
Authors: Faour, G., Bou Kheir. R., and Verdeil, E.
Journal: Revue Forêt Méditerranéenne T. XXVII, n°4, pp. 339-352.

Comparative analysis of drainage networks extracted from DEMs and conventional approaches in Lebanon.
Authors: Abdallah, C., Bou Kheir, R., Khawlie, M., and Faour, G.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal, 7(1), 49-62.

Interprétation visuelle des images satellitaires (Landsat TM, SPOT 4, IRS et IKONOS) et mouvements de masse – cas d’étude au Liban.
Authors: Abdallah, C., Khawlie, M., and Bou Kheir, R.
Journal: Photo-interprétation, 1:3-10.

Land Suitability Mapping of Lebanese Territory for Carob Trees Plantation using GIS.
Authors: Masri T., Darwish T., El Masri N., and Awad M.
Journal: Remote Sensing Journal, no. 19.

Incremental Genetic Algorithm.
Authors: Mansour N., Awad M., and El-Fakih K.
Journal: International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT), vol. 3, no. 1.

Nitrogen and water use efficiency of fertigated processing potato.
Authors: Darwish, T., Atallah, T., Hajhasan, S., and Haidar, A.
Journal: Agricultural Water Management 85: 95-104.

Water balance and allocation policy to maintain sustainable agriculture in Lebanon.
Authors: Darwish, T.
MEDCOASTLAND International Conference: Managing natural resources through implementation of sustainable policies. Beirut – Lebanon.

Soil Map of Lebanon 1/50000.
Authors: Darwish T., Khawlie M., Jomaa I., Abou Daher M., Awad M., Masri T., Shaban A., Faour G., Bou Kheir R., Abdallah C. and Haddad T.
CNRS-Lebanon, Monograph Series 4, pp. 367.

Regeneration capability and economic losses after fire in Mediterranean forests – Lebanon.
Authors: Masri, T., Khater, C., Masri, N., Zeidan, C.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal. Vol 7 (1): 37-48.

Year 2007

A post-conflict assessment to characterize the oil spill off-shore Lebanon by using ASTER images.
Authors: Shaban, A., Ghoneim, E., Hamzé, M., and El-Baz, F.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal. Vol. 2(8) 2007.

Analyzing ASTER and Landsat 7 ETM+ images to identify geomorphologic ring structures in Lebanon.
Authors: Shaban, A.
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 29 (6)2008.

Use of Satellite images to identify marine pollution along the Lebanese coast.
Authors: Shaban, A.
Journal: Environmental Forensics Journal Vol. 2(8) 2007.

The relation between water-wells productivity and lineaments morphometry: Selected zones from Lebanon.
Authors: Shaban, A., Farouk El-Baz and Khawlie, M.
Journal: Nordic Hydrology. Vol., 38(2) 178-201.

Importance de la prise en compte du MNA dans les trois dimensions pour la cartographie du potentiel de ruissellement, application au Liban.
Authors: Bou Kheir, R., Cerdan, O., Girard, M-C., and Abdallah, C.
Journal: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 51(2), 207-225.

A conditional GIS-interpolation-based model for mapping soil-water erosion processes in Lebanon.
Authors: Bou Kheir, R.
Journal: Land degradation and development, 18:1-14.

Use of terrain variables for predictive gully erosion mapping in Lebanon.
Authors: Bou Kheir, R., Wilson, J., and Deng, Y.
Journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32, 1770-1782.

Atlas du Liban Territoires et sociétés
Authors: Verdeil E., Faour G., and Velut S.
IFPO/CNRS-Liban, 2007, ISBN 978-2-35159-053-9. (Book)

KARSTERO: A specified quantitative model for predicting soil-erosion process using ArcGIS Model builder, case study Lebanon.
Authors: Abdallah, C., Bou Kheir, R., and Khawlie, M.
Journal: ArcUSER, January (1), 20-26.

Satellite image analysis for mass movements' detection, case study Lebanon.
Authors: Abdallah, C., Chorowicz, J., Bou Kheir, R., and Dhont, D.
Journal: International Journal for Remote Sensing, 28:19, 1 - 20.

Contribution to the characteriszation of forest fragmentation on the Eastern flank of Mount Lebanon over 33 years.
Authors: Jomaa I., Auda Y., and Khater C.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal, 8 (2), 59-74.

Multi-component Image Segmentation Using Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Network
Authors: Awad M., Chehdi K., and Nasri A.
Journal: IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters , vol. 4, no. 4.

Application of restoration ecology principles to the practice of limestone quarry rehabilitation in Lebanon
Authors: Khater, C., and Martin, A.
Journal: Lebanese Science Journal, Vol 8 (1): 19-28.

Year 2008

Soil and bedrock distribution estimated from gully form and frequency: a GIS-based decision-tree model for Lebanon.
Authors: Bou Kheir, R., Chorowicz, J., Abdallah, C., Damien, D.
Journal: Geomorphology, 93, 482-492.

Rangeland degradation in two watersheds of Lebanon.
Authors: Darwish, T. and Faour, G.
Journal:Lebanese Science Journal, Vol. 9, N 1: 71-80.

Assessment of abandoned quarries for revegetation and water harvesting in Lebanon, East Mediterranean.
Authors:Darwish, T., M., Stehouwer, R, Miller, D., Sloan, J., Jomaa, I., Shaban, A., Khater, C., and M. Hamzé.
Journal:National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Richmond VA, New Opportunities to Apply Our Science June 14-19, 2008: 271-284. R.I. Barnhisel (Ed.) Published by ASMR, 3134 Montavesta Rd., Lexington, KY 40502.

Environmental risk of nitrate accumulation in the soil-groundwater system in Central Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
Authors:Darwish, T., Atallah, T., Baydoun, S., Jomaa, I. and M., Kassem.
Journal:Zdruli, P. and Costantini, E. (Eds), 2008. “Moving ahead from assessments to actions: Could we win the struggle with land degradation?” Book of Abstracts. 5th International Conference on Land Degradation. Bari-Italy 18-22 September 2008: 499-503.

Rehabilitation of deserted quarries in Lebanon to initial land cover or alternative land uses.
Authors:Darwish, T., M., Stehouwer, R, Jomaa, I., Miller, D., Sloan, J., Khater, C., Shaban, A., and M. Hamzé.
Journal:Zdruli, P. and Costantini, E. (Eds), 2008. “Moving ahead from assessments to actions: Could we win the struggle with land degradation?” Book of Abstracts. 5th International Conference on Land Degradation. Valenzano, Bari, Italy 18-22 September 2008: 505-510.