Greeneurs| Rise to Resilience!

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The Challenge | Rise to Resilience!

You are a newly appointed Regional Green Engineer. Your challenge is to develop green infrastructure solutions for complex challenges in water management and risk reduction.Create a tool to assess the characteristics of an urban or rural area of your choice, and integrate green infrastructures, or nature-based solutions, into that region’s development plans to1) reduce flood and/or drought risk2) establish sustainable land use practices3) support water management, and/or 4) produce local economic opportunities.

improve irrigation efficiency

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Satellite data can offer great insight on the availability of certain resources needed for agriculture. Our project comprises of two main parts. Firstly, we extracted data from "Data Earth Website" (SMAaP DATA) that is relevant to agriculture, we processe

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1-Background ..

55,000,000,000 m2 is Egypt’s annual share of the Nile

85% of it, are devoted for AGRICULTURE

40% of this, is WASTED

By 2025, 33% more water is needed

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VARIABLES AFFECTING WATER CONSUMPTION

1- Temperature

2- Humidity

3- Wind speed

4- Type of crops

For example, change in temperature by one-degree centigrade leads to 5% evaporation rate (ETo) of the water.

challenged faced ..



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Resources .!

•1- SMAP Data | National Snow and Ice Data Center. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://nsidc.org/data/smap/smap-data.html?fbclid=IwAR0PfRhK3qlkrB4I8oSY3ywyoJPl54WPKO4Z7kXbjrXjVu6tgeBFyIO9qwc


2-Ardö, J. (2013). A 10-Year Dataset of Basic Meteorology and Soil Properties in Central Sudan. Dataset Papers in Geosciences, 2013, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.7167/2013/297973

3-Rohindra, D. R., Nand, A. V., & Khurma, J. R. (2004). Swelling properties of chitosan hydrogels. The South Pacific Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, 22(1), 32. doi:10.1071/sp04005

4-Taghavi, L. S., Hemmatinejad, N., & Bashari, A. (2015). Nanosized Chitosan Hydrogels Containing Sumac Extract for Antimicrobial Biofinishing of Cotton Fabric, Preparation and Characterization. Procedia Materials Science, 11, 202–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mspro.2015.11.105