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Utilizing Landsat-8 and ASTER data in geologic mapping of hyper-arid mountainous region: case of Gabal Batoga area, South Eastern Desert of Egypt

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Landsat-8 and ASTER images were utilized to derive geological information and mapping of a hyper-arid mountainous region. Principal component analyses and band rationing techniques in conjunction with petrography and field investigations enabled to produce a modified new geologic map of Gabal Batoga area, along the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The area is built by non-consanguineous diverse Pan-African basement rock units. These rock units are widely distributed in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. ASTER principal component images (PC2, PC5, PC7) and (PC2, PC3, PC8) as well as band ratio images (b4/b7, b3/b4, b2/b1) were effective in accurate lithological discrimination of the exposed rock units in the study area. The process was also enhanced and emphasized by Landsat-8 principal component images (PC2, PC4, and PC7) and band ratio (b6/b2, b6/b7, b6/b5 × b4/b5). The used methodology and techniques can be applicable in many similar arid and hyper-arid areas in the Arabian-Nubian Shield and elsewhere.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. Safaa Mohamed Hassan for her kindly help in remote sensing data interpretation. The authors express their grateful thanks to Dr. Hosam Gab Alla and Dr. Kareem Hamid for their help in the GIS and cartographic parts to produce the geological map of the study area. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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    Baher A. El-kalioubi

  3. Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

    Mohamed W. Ali-Bik, Mariam A. El Hefnawi & Ahmad A. Elnazer

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Sadek, M.F., El-kalioubi, B.A., Ali-Bik, M.W. et al. Utilizing Landsat-8 and ASTER data in geologic mapping of hyper-arid mountainous region: case of Gabal Batoga area, South Eastern Desert of Egypt. Environ Earth Sci 79, 101 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-020-8845-4

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