Afify. Abbas. Afify
Agricultural Research Center
Egypt
Biography
Afify Abbas Afify is currently a Chief of Research in Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute. Egypt. Part times of his scientific and technical activities were managed for the Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Egypt. His conceptual approach is to optimize the use of land resources in Egypt for more food production. Afify shared with different international teams for land evaluation and land cover mapping, using the remote sensing data for Egypt and some other countries. His publications is covering the field of physiographic-soil identification; land cover assessment and land use planning; monitoring the land degradation and urban encroachment over the Nile Alluvium and the identification of new promising areas for the agricultural development. He always uses his publications to launch precautionary calls for protecting the Nile Alluvium to be a protectorate.