Environmental Degradation in Asia

Prof. Dr. Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi is a professor of Applied Remote Sensing and GIS at Tishk International University in Erbil, Iraq. He has 42 years of experience in university teaching. In 2004 he received a Ph.D. in Engineering degree (Geodetection & IT) from China University of Geosciences, China. He supervised and examined over 60 postgraduate students, published 72 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, and contributed fourteen book chapters. In 2011 and 2022, he was a visiting professor at Michigan State University and University of Alabama, United States. He was a participant, keynote speaker, and committee member in 36 international conferences and worldwide scientific endeavors. He served as a Guest Editor for MDPI's Remote Sensing and SPIE's Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. Furthermore, he acts as a reviewer for over 40 international journals. He has been the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE-GRSS) Ambassador in Iraq since 2016. Prof. Dr. Yaseen Taha Mustafa received the Ph.D. degree in applied statistics of remote sensing from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands, in 2012. He is currently a professor of applied remote sensing and GIS with the Faculty of Science at the University of Zakho, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Prof. Mustafa supervised several projects related to remote sensing and GIS. At present, he supervises five PhD students as well as numerous MSc students. His research interests include spatial statistical and spatiotemporal data in remote sensing and GIS, such as monitoring data; image analysis; issues of data quality; and Bayesian networks. He serves as a reviewer for a number of national and international journals. Prof. Mustafa has been involved in the editorial boards of several journals. He is currently occupying the position of vice president for scientific affairs at the University of Zakho. Prof. Dr. Abdelazim M. Negm is a Professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University (ZU). He was the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, ZU (from 12/2008 to 12/2011). Also, he was the head of the Environmental Engineering Department at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt (October 2013 to March 2016). Also, he is the head of the permanent scientific committee on Water Resources, the supreme council of Egyptian Universities (cycle no. 13). He published more than 150 Scopus indexed scientific documents. He published more than 35 edited books in Springer Publishing house. He is the editor of several international journals. He is listed by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, from 2011 until the present as one of the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. He was nominated for various awards by both ABI and IBC during the period 2011-2012.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi).- Part I: Land Degradation.- Chapter 2. Assessing Environmental Degradation using Geo-spatial Technology: A Case Study (Arnab KUNDU).- Chapter 3. Land Use Land Cover mapping using optimized Multi-layer Perceptron algorithm (Ali Jamali).- Chapter 4. Environmental Degradation of Mongolia from 1990 to 2019 using Landsat, MODIS, AVHRR Data, and Machine Learning Technique (Otgonbayar Munkhdulam).- Chapter 5. Assessment of Land Degradation Vulnerability Using GIS-Based Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) (Hazhir Karimi).- Chapter 6. Evaluation of Zarand Earthquake in Central Iran using Satellite images and GIS (Hamid Allahvirdias).- Chapter 7. Environmental Control of the Sand Dunes in Iraq (Hasan K. Jasim).- Chapter 8. Assessment of Aircraft Sound on Students' Performance (Khaula Abdulla Saif Alkaabi).- Chapter 9. Soil Degradation Assessment for the Arid Territories of Kazakhstan (Dmitry V. Malakhov).