Deserts and arid lands book pdf download

Author: Farouk El-Baz

About the Author: Farouk El-Baz, born on January 2, 1938 in the city of Zagazig, is an Egyptian-American scientist who worked for NASA to help plan geological exploration of the moon, such as choosing landing sites for the Apollo missions and training astronauts to choose suitable samples of lunar soil and bring them to Earth for analysis and study. Farouk El-Baz is married and has four daughters and six grandchildren. He is the brother of Osama El-Baz, the supreme advisor to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Currently, El-Baz is Professor of Scientific Research and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also an assistant professor of geology at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Geological Society of America Foundation in Boulder, Colorado, a member of the Leaders Board of CRDF Global, and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in Washington.

Deserts and arid lands book pdf download By Farouk El-Baz

Remote sensing is the study of a region from a distance, particularly from an airplane or a spacecraft. It is a tool that can be used in conjunction with other methods of research and investigation. This tool is especially applicable to the study of the deserts and arid lands of the Earth because of their immense size and their inaccessibility to detailed study by conventional means. In this book examples are given of the utility of aerial photographs and space images in the study of semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid terrains. Emphasis is placed on the physical features and terrain types using examples from around the world. The authors I have called upon to prepare each chapter are renowned specialists whose contributions have received international recognition. To the general reader, this book is a review of our knowledge of the relatively dry parts of the Earth, their classification and varied features, their evolution in space and time, and their development potentials. To the specialist, it is a detailed account of the deserts and arid lands, not only in North America, but also their relatively unknown counterparts in North Africa, Australia, China, India, and Arabia.

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