Sayed A. Mohamed

The effective management of meteorological forecasting data is crucial for enhancing agricultural sustainability and precision, especially considering climate change. This study presents an innovative framework that integrates multispectral image analysis, advanced weather forecasting, and rule-based models to improve agricultural practices in Egypt’s Al-Sharkia region, specifically targeting rice and wheat cultivation. The framework employs artificial intelligence and sophisticated data processing techniques to analyze information from satellites, remote sensing devices, and meteorological stations, delivering accurate weather predictions and climate forecasts. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model classified agricultural land into appropriate categories, exhibiting exceptional performance with a reduction in training loss from 0.2362 to 6.87e-4. The Recurrent Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory (RNN-LSTM) model demonstrated significant predictive accuracy, achieving a root mean square (RMS) error of 0.19 in forecasting critical meteorological variables. In contrast to prior research that utilizes solely remote sensing or meteorological data, this study introduces an innovative hybrid framework that amalgamates CNN-based image analysis, LSTM-based weather prediction, and rule-based crop advisories. This comprehensive method provides precise, localized forecasts and customized agricultural advice, facilitating informed decisions regarding crop selection, planting schedules, and resource allocation. This thorough methodology, validated by Sentinel-2 and NOAA data, aims to reduce crop losses, decrease operational costs, and encourage sustainable agricultural practices in response to climate change problems.

The accurate identification of extreme weather events (EWEs), particularly cyclones, has become increasingly crucial due to the intensifying impacts of climate change. In the Indian subcontinent, the frequency and severity of cyclones have demonstrably risen, highlighting the need for reliable detection methods to minimize casualties and economic losses. However, the inherent limitations of low-resolution data pose significant challenges to traditional detection methods. Deep learning models offer a promising solution, enabling the precise identification of cyclone boundaries crucial for assessing regional impacts using global climate models data. By leveraging the power of deep learning, we can significantly enhance our capabilities for cyclone detection and contribute to improved risk mitigation strategies in the vulnerable Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this paper introduces an edge-enhanced super-resolution GAN (EESRGAN) leveraging an end-to-end detector network. The proposed approach comprised of a generator network equipped by residual-in-residual dense block (RRDB) and discriminator containing Faster RCNN detector. The precise patterns of cyclone had been effectively extracted to help boundary detection. Extensive experiments have been conducted on Community Atmospheric Model (CAM5.1) data taken into account only seven variables. Four matrices including precision, recall, intersection over union, and mean average precision have been considered to assess the proposed approach. The results have been found very effective while achieving accuracy up to 86.3% and average precision (AP) of 88.63%. Moreover, the proposed method demonstrates its superiority while compared with benchmarks object detectors methods. Thus, the proposed method can be employed in the area of extreme climate detection and could enrich the climate research domain.

The pre-processing of satellite data is a vital step in harnessing the full potential of remote sensing pictures. EgyptSat-1, Egypt's first satellite for observing the Earth from a distance, encountered a major obstacle as a considerable amount of the images it captured could not be used since the necessary radiometric coefficients were missing. This study utilises a cross-calibration methodology, taking advantage of the spectral similarity between Spot 4 and Spot 5 as reference satellites, in order to retrieve these difficult-to-obtain coefficients. The analysis demonstrates that the selection of window size in the cross-calibration process is crucial in determining the outcomes. In general, smaller window sizes tend to produce better results. However, there are certain cases when larger windows are more successful, such as in the scenario of EgyptSat-1's band 3 and its cross-calibration with Spot 5. In contrast to a previous study, the new methodology produces much diminished uncertainty factors, indicating a remarkable enhancement in accuracy. The cross-calibration results highlight the significance of selecting the appropriate window size and satellite for accurate calibration, especially for the Near-Infrared (NIR) band, which is highly responsive to these parameters. Moreover, there are differences in the computations of offset and gain between Spot 4 and Spot 5, which further highlight the intricacies involved in radiometric calibration. The results of this study lead to the determination of improved calibration coefficients for EgyptSat -1, with the specific aim of maximising the accuracy of the results and minimising any errors.

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 measurement. Soil salinity in the northern Nile Delta of Egypt severely affects agriculture sustainability and food security in Egypt. Understanding the spatial distribution of soil salinity is a critical factor for agricultural development and management in drylands. This research aims to improve soil salinity prediction by using a combined data collection method consisting of Sentinel-1 C radar data and Sentinel-2 optical data acquired simultaneously via integrated radar and optical sensor variables. The modelling approach focuses on feature selection strategies and regression learning. Feature selection approaches that include the filter, wrapper, and embedded methods were used with 47 selected variables depending on a genetic algorithm to scrutinize whether regions of the spectrum from optical indices and SAR texture choose the optimum combinations of selected variables. The sub-setting variables resulting from each feature selection method were used to train the regression learners’ random forest (RF), linear regression (LR), backpropagation neural network (BPNN), and support vector regression (SVR). Combining the BPNN feature selection method with the RF regression learner better predicted soil salinity (RME 0.000246; sub-setting variables = 18). Integrating different remote sensing data and machine learning provides an opportunity to develop a robust prediction approach to predict soil salinity in drylands. This research evaluated the performances of various machine learning models, overcame the limitations of conventional techniques, and optimized the variable input combinations. This research can assist farmers in soil-salinization-affected areas in better managing planting procedures and enhancing the sustainability of their lands.

This work comprises the development of a quality enhancement technique for image encoders that use compressive sensing. The recommended solution seeks to maximize the perceptual quality based objective function, unlike other sparse representation algorithms that minimizes the error-based objective function. The key idea behind this work is to develop an iterative methodology that works as a modifier for the sparse coefficients. The modification procedure is SSIM-based and has been carried out in an iterative and linear manner. The conducted experiments revealed that the recommended technique works better than another SSIM-based modifier termed the SSIM-inspired OMP (iOMP) in terms of SSIM levels gained. The t-test is also utilized to examine our performance for significance, and the results show that the method works well for any type of image and any size, especially when a data-independent based dictionary is used.