Damascus-SANA
Remote sensing applications in the field of agriculture and the future of its technologies in Syria.
The participants in the workshop reviewed scientific papers and lectures on the applications of remote sensing in the fields of land, especially with regard to estimating soil moisture and monitoring dust storms, as well as in the field of forests, fires, pastures, land and crop degradation, and drought monitoring in Syria.
Dr. Firas Al-Hanawi, Vice President of Damascus University for Scientific Research and Graduate Studies, indicated in his speech to the university’s keenness to cooperate with all parties in order to follow up efforts to raise the university’s level and its scientific and academic outputs, indicating the role of the Remote Sensing Authority in promoting the use of this technology in Service of scientific research and ongoing development projects at the level of Syria.
In turn, Dr. Abd al-Nabi Bashir, Dean of the College of Agriculture, explained that agricultural studies and research have become highly dependent on remote sensing techniques due to the accuracy, comprehensiveness, pluralism, and recurrence of time, especially in light of the change in vegetation cover, the alteration of land uses and land cover, and the diversity of agricultural wealth, which calls for Monitor it and follow up its development to set programs for its management and investment.
Dr. Bashir indicated that remote sensing is a supportive and complementary tool applied in the agricultural sector to quickly and effectively obtain results that help planners and decision makers to develop comprehensive sustainable development plans.
Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim, Assistant Director-General of the Remote Sensing Authority, stated that remote sensing has become an absolute necessity because it plays the role of diagnosis in research or study that begins with the image and ends on the ground, as well as saving effort, time, money, repetition and speed in work, which is positively reflected on all research sites.
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