Nasem Badreldin

University of Manitoba | UMN · Department of Soil Science

This review highlights the critical role of software sensors in advancing biosystem monitoring and control by addressing the unique challenges biological systems pose. Biosystems—from cellular interactions to ecological dynamics—are characterized by intrinsic nonlinearity, temporal variability, and uncertainty, posing significant challenges for tra...

Potatoes are a vital part of our diet worldwide, but their cultivation poses challenges due to environmental impacts from traditional farming methods. Precision agriculture offers a promising solution by managing variability in crop growth and reducing environmental disturbance. Remote sensing technologies have become crucial for monitoring crops a...

This review article explores the innovative application of software sensors for monitoring and controlling biosystems, emphasizing their advantage in managing the complexities of various biological processes. Biosystems—from cellular interactions to ecological dynamics—are characterized by intrinsic nonlinearity, temporal variability, and uncertain...

Knowledge of soil volumetric water content (VWC) on agricultural soils as influenced by different soil management practices is important, but the measurement outputs of frequently used traditional sampling techniques are restricted to point‐based measurements with limited spatial coverage. Remote sensing (RS) techniques are therefore being explored...

Land cover classification is one of the most common applications of remote sensing and is used for developing and modifying land management policies on agricultural landscapes to achieve conservation and economic goals, such as reducing grassland degradation and improving livestock and crop production. In this study, the grassland classification of...

Runoff and erosion reduction rate Direct and indirect effects Semi-arid area Plant measures/Vegetation cover A B S T R A C T Quantitative analyses of runoff and erosion under specific climatic (precipitation characteristics) and underlying surface conditions (slope, antecedent soil moisture) with different types of vegetation cover (or plant measur...

The use of social media and online platforms has revolutionized the way we access information about agriculture. However, these platforms are also frequently used to spread fake news. Spreading misinformation and disinformation is a complex global issue in agriculture that impacts everyone involved in the industry, from farmers to consumers. Common...

Gully erosion has been identified in recent decades as a global threat to people and property. This problem also affects the socioeconomic stability of societies and therefore limits their sustainable development, as it impacts a nonrenewable resource on a human scale, namely, soil. The focus of this study is to evaluate the prediction performance...

The prevention of soil salinization and managing agricultural irrigation depend greatly on accurately estimating soil salinity. Although the long-standing laboratory method of measuring salinity composition is accurate for determining soil salinity parameters, its use is frequently constrained by the high expense and difficulty of long-term in situ...

Canada is known for its massive and fertile landscape, and one of the biggest industries in Canada is crop production, which is responsible for contributing to the national economy as well as the global food supply. Soil erosion is considered the top challenge facing Canadian farmers in the 21st century. This study aims to evaluate soil erosion’s i...

China’s Loess Plateau regions have experienced severe soil erosion for many decades due to fragmented landscapes, steep slopes, and concentrated rainfall storm-events. Restoring sub-optimal or marginal farming fields, mostly on steep, hilly terrain, to plantation forests has been a long-standing strategic policy in China aimed at rehabilitating deg...

Agriculture-related nonpoint source pollution has been a worldwide issue in the past few decades. Estimating pollutant sources at the basin scale remains a challenge due to the complexity of pollutant transport mechanisms affected by land use, variable climatic condition, geological formation, and lack of long-term observation data. This study was...

Accurate spatial distribution information of native, mixed, and tame grasslands is essential for maintaining ecosystem health in the Prairie. This research aimed to use the latest monitoring technology to assess the remaining grasslands in Saskatchewan’s mixed grassland ecoregion (MGE). The classification approach was based on 78 raster-based varia...

The Nile Delta of Egypt is increasingly facing sustainability threats, due to a combination of nature- and human-induced changes in land cover and land use. In this paper, an analysis of big time-series data from remotely sensed satellite images and the Random Forests classifier was undertaken to assess the spatial and temporal dynamics of urbaniza...

This presentation provides an assessment of the cost of soil losses by wind, water and tillage erosion in Canada as a result of lost crop production from 1971 to 2011. These costs have increased over the years to $3 billion per year in 2011, and a cumulative loss of $40-60 billion between 1971 and 2011. Although there has been widespread adoption o...

The wind erosion equation (WEQ) was used for several decades for predicting soil loss by wind erosion, but few systematic studies on the uncertainty of predicting wind erosion have been conducted. Several researchers found that WEQ is not accurately representing soil erosion and under-represents soil erodibility which consequently results in WEQ un...

Desertification is responsible for depleting natural resources in arid lands, which is globally happening in an alarming rate. It is considered as the major environmental threat that affects about 40% of the world dry lands, which are populated by approximately one billion humans. In this paper the main objective is to discuss the recent and past r...

Obtaining information about the spatial distribution of desert plants is considered as a serious challenge for ecologists and environmental modeling due to the required intensive field work and infrastructures in harsh and remote arid environments. A new method was applied for assessing the spatial distribution of the halophytic species (HS) in an...

Assessing biomass dynamics is highly critical for monitoring ecosystem balance and its response to climate change and anthropogenic activities. In this study, we introduced a direct link between Landsat vegetation spectral indices and ground/airborne LiDAR data; this integration was established to estimate the biomass dynamics over various years us...

Desertification is the major environmental threat in the arid and semiarid regions. The soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) was used as an indicator to monitor the desertification change in Egypt. A multi-temporal satellite data of moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer were used to estimate SAVI and land surface temperature. Also, Global...

Supplementary material related to figure 8, recorded by the authors during the field work in North Sinai, Egypt in January 2010.

This research focuses on monitoring the desertification change as a result of mitigation and adaptation strategies in arid environmental condition. Exploring environmental hazards, specifically desertification development, is important for understanding loss of productivity in dry lands. Developing a new satellite-based algorithm for monitoring des...

Environment in arid conditions is dynamic and needs more investigation to understand the complexity of change. This spatiotemporal study will help to assess and monitor the land use and land cover change in the arid region of El-Arish area, where the climate and human activities are the major threats to rural development. In the past 11 years, dram...

presentation

The Sodium Adsorption Ratios (SAR's) were determined and corrected for ion-pairing and ion-pairing plus activities in saturation extracts of 124 soil samples collected from EL-Hosainiya plain East Nile Delta. The actual ionic concentrations, ionic activities, and ion-pair concentrations were determined using a special computer program. Sulphate ion...

The Sodium Adsorption Ratios (SAR's) were determined and corrected for ion-pairing and ion-pairing plus activities in saturation extracts of 124 soil samples collected from EL-Hosainiya plain East Nile Delta. The actual ionic concentrations, ionic activities, and ion-pair concentrations were determined using a special computer program. Sulphate ion...