Hafsa Aeman

• Researcher - Remote Sensing and GIS at International Water Management Institute

Ramsar sites serve as vital guardians of ecosystem diversity, crucially mitigating the impacts of climate change and enabling sustainable management. However, challenges in monitoring and associated factors persist, as many studies narrowly focus on water extents, often overlooking climate change influences. The aim of this study is to establish a...

The potential of agriculture land monitoring serves as the lifeblood of communities, nourishing populations and fostering economic growth on a global scale. Towards the advancement of the computational approach, this study employed an analytical hierarchal process modeling for agriculture land suitability assessment by integrating a comprehensive a...

Monitoring agricultural land over vast geographical areas presents challenges due to the absence of accurate, comprehensive and precise data, which has become a complex process that is difficult to do in terms of both timespans and consistency. Hence, this study presents an improved approach for the identification of agricultural land by utilizing...

Insufficient freshwater recharge and climate change resulted in seawater intrusion in most of the coastal aquifers in Pakistan. Coastal aquifers represent diverse landcover types with varying spectral properties, making it challenging to extract information about their state hence, such investigation requires a combination of geospatial tools. This...

Although it is a globally significant wetland, the ecological environment of Soon valley (Ucchali and Khabeki wetland lakes, Pakistan) is being negatively impacted by the rapid transformation of its land-use change brought about by economic and human activities. Through supervised classification and interpretation, we extract land use categories fr...

The research demonstrated the spatial analysis of site suitability using physical parameters in the Metropolitan expanse that requires environmental safety and sustainability. The location of petrol filling stations that are already developed without following any standard criteria is drastic. This research finds out the level of compliance of petr...

This study focused on an integrated assessment of coastline change and its impacts on the deltaic sustainability of the Indus Delta, the world's fifth-largest delta. The increase in salinity and degradation of mangrove habitat was examined using multi-temporal Landsat satellite imagery for the period 1990-2020. The tasselled cap transformation indi...

InSAR-based deformation analysis and the geomorphic hypsometric integral (HI) technique are powerful tools for assessing the susceptibility and comparison of seismic sites to earthquakes. Therefore, this paper mainly focuses on surface deformation analysis associated with the Mw 5.0 earthquake (2019) in Mach and Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Senti...

The study on Appraisal of Snow in Context of Temperature Variations in Gilgit Basin was conducted to find the snow cover change over Gilgit and Hunza Rivers. Hypsometric curve for this catchment was convex upward between normalized area and elevation. Using the MODIS snow cover product classification of snow cover was done which indicate the presen...

The objective of this appraisal is to determine the feasibility of dam sites in Swat Valley and its peripheries (Northern Pakistan). We exploited SRTM DEM with a spatial resolution of 90m to extract various geomorphic indexes for the dam site feasibility. This research aims at pinpointing areas which can be opted for small dam constructions to over...