Dr. Hesham El-Askary

Professor

Schmid College of Science and Technology; Computational and Data Science

Expertise: Global Climate Change; Earth Systems; Remote Sensing; Aerosols; Natural Disasters; Marine Habitats

Office Location: Keck Center for Science and Engineering 295

Phone: (714) 289-2053

Email: elaskary@chapman.edu

Website: http://sites.chapman.edu/elaskary/

Education:: Alexandria University, Bachelor of Science
George Mason University, Master of Science
George Mason University, Master of Science
George Mason University, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. El-Askary views himself as an earth system scientist with a major interest in natural hazards, atmospheric events and using renewable energy as the only way to address global climate change issues. His research interests include dust storms monitoring and detection using different remote sensing technologies as well as studying other extreme events. He is also involved in studying air pollution problems over megacities due to natural and man-made effects as well as climate change and its impacts on sea-level rise and coral reefs for coastal areas. His research included using earth observations in studying the impact of severe dust storms anomalous chlorophyll outbreaks in the marine environment, hurricanes intensification as well as transport of microbes causing Kawasaki disease outbreaks. Recently, Dr. El-Askary has been focusing on using earth observations for water resources management and precision agriculture, along with sustainable development goals.

He is the 2015 recipient of Chapman University's elite Senior Wang-Fradkin Professorship award. In 2016, he was named the regional coordinator on a $3 million euro grant from the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020. The three-year project, known as GEO-CRADLE, deals with coordinating and integrating state-of-the-art earth observation activities in the regions of North Africa, Middle East and Balkans, and developing links with GEO-related initiatives toward GEOSS. Through this work, his research team was able to deliver the first analytical solar atlas of Egypt that is now considered to be the official document of the government for solar investment. This work was recently presented at Planet Earth Institute at the Royal Society in London during a seminar that discussed the future of solar energy in Africa.

Dr. El-Askary has published over 100 refereed research publications, conference full papers and book chapters in these research areas. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, United States Department of Agriculture and the European Union. Dr. El-Askary has received the Saudi Arabia award hosted by the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) affiliated with the League of Arab states for the best-published article in Environmental Management among 150 articles in 2006. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AGU, EGU, COSPAR and Phi Beta Delta Honor Society.

Dr. El-Askary has been featured in the Old Towne Orange Plaza Review and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Website.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: W. Jiazhe, D. Xinrui, S. YanCheng, Z. Xiangtian, B. Gaffar; R. Nasir, A. Jamil, Z. Zafar, M. Sohail Meer, T. Nadu, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, R. Naseer, H. El-Askary, "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and GIS-DRASTIC Integration for Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment with Rainfall Consideration," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3524376.; Surendra Maharjan, Wenzhao Li, Shahryar Fazli, Roma Thakurati and Hesham El-Askary. “Unfolding Climate Extreme Impacts on Pre-Monsoon Aridity and Extended Rainy Seasons in the Hindu Kush Himalayas Basin” Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 57, 2025, 102155, ISSN 2214-5818, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.102155.; Madrigal, C.; Bedri, R.; Piechota, T.; Li, W.; Tootle, G.; El-Askary, H. Water Whiplash in Mediterranean Regions of the World. Water 2024, 16, 450. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16030450; Wenzhao Li, Dongfeng Li, Hesham El-Askary, Joshua B. Fisher, Zheng N. Fang. “Evaluating Future Water Availability in Texas through the Lens of a Data-Driven Approach Leveraged with CMIP6 General Circulation Models” Science of the Total Environment, 921, 2024, 171136, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171136.; Khalid En-nagre, Mourad Aqnouy, Ayoub Ouarka, Syed Ali Asad Naqvi, Ismail Bouizrou, Jamal Eddine Stitou El Messari, Aqil Tariq, Walid Soufan, Wenzhao Li, and Hesham El-Askary, “Assessment and prediction of meteorological drought using machine learning algorithms and climate data”, Climate Risk Management, 45, 2024, 100630, ISSN 2212-0963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2024.100630.; Masoomeh Yaghoobi, Aram Fathib, Shahryar Fazli, Wenzhao Li, Elham Haghshenase, Vahid Shokri Kuchak, Hesham El –Askary. “Impact of Land Use Dynamics on the Water Yields in the Gorgan River Basin”, Heliyon, 2024, e35674, ISSN 2405-8440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35674.; Gapper, J., Maharjan, S., Li, W., Linstead, E., Tiwari, S., Qurban, M., & El-Askary, H. (2024). “A Generalized Machine Learning Model for Long-Term Coral Reef Monitoring in the Red Sea”, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 18, 2024, e38249, ISSN 2405-8440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38249.; L. Feng, S. Hussain, N. Pricope, S. Arshad, A. Tariq, Li. Feng, M. Mubeen, R. Aslam, M. Fnais, W. Li, & H. El-Askary (2024). “Seasonal dynamics in Land Surface Temperature in response to Land use Land cover Changes using Google Earth Engine,”. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3466191.; Hesham Morgan, Ali Elgendy, Amir Said, Mostafa Hashem, Wenzhao Li, Surendra Maharjan and Hesham El-Askary. “Enhanced lithological mapping in arid crystalline regions using explainable AI and multi-spectral remote sensing data”, Computers & Geosciences, Volume 193, 2024, 105738, ISSN 0098-3004, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105738.; Perera, S., R. H. Maneja, M. Allali, C. Rakovski, E. Linstead, D. Struppa, A. Qasem, and H. El-Askary, 2024: Time Series Decomposition of Land Surface Temperature for Long-Term Trend Forecasting and Impact on Nesting Sea Turtle Habitats in the Arabian Gulf. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 63, 1479–1497, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0092.1.; Z. Hao, M. Haseeb, Z. Xiangtian, Z. Tahir, S. Amer Mahmood, A. Tariq, R. Waqar Aslam, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, H. El-Askary (2024). “Multi-Temporal Analysis of Urbanization-Driven Slope and Ecological Impact Using Machine-Learning and Remote Sensing Techniques,”. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3509133.; Dhake, H.; Kosmopoulos, P.; Mantakas, A.; Kashyap, Y.; El-Askary, H.; Elbadawy, O. Climatological Trends and Effects of Aerosols and Clouds on Large Solar Parks: Application Examples in Benban (Egypt) and Al Dhafrah (UAE). Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 4379. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16234379; Ahmad, T., Ali, L., Alshamsi, D., Aldahan A., El-Askary H., Ahmed A., “AI-Powered Water Quality Index Prediction: Unveiling Machine Learning Precision in Hyper-Arid Regions,”. Earth Syst Environ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00524-8; S. Maharjan, W. Li, S. Fazli, H. Sewilam and H. El-Askary, "Enhancing Sustainable Development Goals Through Future Vapor Pressure Deficit Analysis In The Nile River Basin," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 4397-4401, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641162.; S. Fazli, W. Li, S. Maharjan and H. E. Askary, "Assessing Rice Phenological Features with Hyperspectral Imaging Insights from Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 5019-5023, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640540.; L. Nikolaos, K. Panagiotis, H. El-Askary and O. Elbadawy, "Sunrise Strategies: Maximizing Solar Energy Yields AMIDST Environmental Variabilities in Egypt," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 3129-3133, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640947.; S. Perera, J. B. Fisher, M. Allali and H. El-Askary, "Linkages of the 2022 Unprecedented Global Heatwave Events to Triple-Dip La Niña," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 525-528, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641697.; W. Li, S. Fazli, S. Maharjan and H. El-Askary, "Deciphering Water Quality and Algal Dynamics in Clear Lake Through Hyperspectral Analysis Using Emit Data," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 9302-9306, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642226.; W. Li, H. El-Askary and D. C. Struppa, "Mapping California Rice Using Optical and SAR Data Fusion with Phenological Features in Google Earth Engine," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 5619-5622, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281418.; R. Thomas, W. Li, S. Fazli, N. G. Todorov and H. El-Askary, "Monitoring Dam Stability Using PSI and SBAS Analysis," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 7997-8000, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10283372.; Desinayak, N., Prasad, A. K., El-Askary, H., Kafatos, M., and Asrar, G. R.: Snow cover variability and trend over the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using MODIS and SRTM data, Ann. Geophys., 40, 67–82, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-67-2022, 2022.; Preety, K.; Prasad, A.K.; Varma, A.K.; El-Askary, H. Accuracy Assessment, Comparative Performance, and Enhancement of Public Domain Digital Elevation Models (ASTER 30 m, SRTM 30 m, CARTOSAT 30 m, SRTM 90 m, MERIT 90 m, and TanDEM-X 90 m) Using DGPS. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 1334. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061334; Alexandra Monteiro, Sara Basart, Stelios Kazadzis, Antonis Gkikas, Sophie Vandenbussche, Aurelio Tobias, Carla Gama, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Enric Tarradellas, George Notas, Nick Middleton, Jonilda Kushta, Vassilis Amiridis, Kostas Lagouvardos, Panagiotis Kosmopoulos, Vasiliki Kotroni, Maria Kanakidou, Nikos Mihalopoulos, Nikos Kalivitis, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserová, Hesham El-Askary, Klaus Sievers, T. Giannaros, Lucia Mona, Marcus Hirtl, Paul Skomorowski, Slobodan Nickovic, Athanasios Votsis, Timo H. Virtanen, Theodoros Christoudias, Biagio Di Mauro, Serena Trippetta, Stanislav Kutuzov, Outi Meinander, “Multi-sectoral impact assessment of an extreme African dust episode in the Eastern Mediterranean in March 2018”, Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 156861, ISSN 0048-9697; Mohammad, A.; Prasad, A.K.; Wetsah, K.-u.; Azad, M.; Aryan, V.; El-Askary, H. Titaniferous-Vanadiferous, Magnetite-Ilmenite Mineralization in a Mafic Suite within the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, Bihar, India. Minerals 2022, 12, 860. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12070860; S. Perera, M. Allali, E. Linstead and H. El-Askary, “Deriving Drought Vulnerability using Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis (GWPCA) and K-means Clustering for Nile Basin, 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2022, pp. 3187-3190, doi: DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883425.; S. Perera, M. Allali, E. Linstead and H. El-Askary, "Landuse Landcover Change Detection in the Mediterranean Region Using a Siamese Neural Network and Image Processing," 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 4368-4371, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553928.; Arin Ghazarian; Jianwei Zheng; Hesham El-Askary; Huimin Chu; Guohua Fu; Cyril Rakovski, “Increased Risks of Re-identification For Patients Posed by Deep Learning-Based ECG Identification Algorithms,” 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630880.; Rommel H. Maneja, Rejoice Thomas, Jeffrey D. Miller, Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Ace Vincent B. Flandez, Joselito Francis A. Alcaria, Jinoy Gopalan, Abdulrahman Jukhdar, Abdullajid U. Basali, Sachi Perera, Perdana K.Prihartato, Ronald A. Loughland, Tyas I. Hikmawan, Ali Qasem, Mohamed A. Qurban, Daniele Struppa, “Marine Litter Survey at the Major Sea Turtle Nesting Islands in the Arabian Gulf Using In-Situ and Remote Sensing Methods,” 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 8582-8585, DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553106; El-Askary, H.; Fawzy, A.; Thomas, R.; Li, W.; LaHaye, N.; Linstead, E.; Piechota, T.; Struppa, D.; Sayed, M.A. Assessing the Vertical Displacement of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam during Its Filling Using DInSAR Technology and Its Potential Acute Consequences on the Downstream Countries. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4287. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214287; Rommel Maneja; Jeffrey Miller; Wenzhao Li; Rejoice Thomas; Hesham El-Askary, Sachi Perera; Ace Flandez; Abdullajid Basali; Joselito Alcaria; Jinoy Gopalan; Surya Tiwari; Mubarak Al-Jedani; Perdana Prihartato; Ronald Loughland; Ali Qasem; Mohamed Qurban; Wail Faltah; Daniele Struppa, “Multidecadal analysis of beach loss at the major offshore sea turtle nesting islands in the northern Arabian Gulf”, Ecological Indicators, 121, 2021, 107146, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107146.; Wenzhao Li, Sachi Perera, Erik Linstead, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham El-Askary Thomas Piechota and Daniele Struppa, “Intercomparison among multiple hydrological products for the investigation of land cover changes in the Mediterranean Region”, Earth Syst Environ 5, 285–302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00213-w; Kansara, P.; Li, W.; El-Askary, H.; Lakshmi, V.; Piechota, T.; Struppa, D.; Abdelaty Sayed, M. An Assessment of the Filling Process of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Its Impact on the Downstream Countries. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 711. doi: 10.3390/rs13040711; Zheng, J., Fu, G., Abudayyeh, I., ...Chu, H., Rakovski, C.A High-Precision Machine Learning Algorithm to Classify Left and Right Outflow Tract Ventricular Tachycardia, Frontiers in Physiologythis link is disabled, 2021, 12, 641066; LaHaye, N.; Garay, M.J.; Bue, B.D.; El-Askary, H.; Linstead, E. A Quantitative Validation of Multi-Modal Image Fusion and Segmentation for Object Detection and Tracking. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2364. doi: 10.3390/rs13122364; Bidak, L.M.M., Heneidy, S.Z., Li, W., ...El Askary, H.M., Abd Elkareem, M.S.Mediterranean tapeweed posidonia oceanica (L.) delile, an endangered seagrass species`Egyptian Journal of Botanythis link is disabled, 2021, 61(2), pp. 335–348; El-Askary, H., Li, W., Mediterranean Basin case study, United Nations, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, Special Report on Droughts 2021; Research Developments in Geotechnics, Geo-Informatics and Remote Sensing Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-2), Tunisia 2019, Editors: El-Askary, H., Erguler, Z.A., Karakus, M., Chaminé, H.I. (Eds.); S. Perera, W. Li, E. Linstead and H. El-Askary, "Forecasting Vegetation Health in the MENA Region by Predicting Vegetation Indicators with Machine Learning Models," IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020, pp. 4642-4645, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323747.; W. Li, S. P. Tiwari, K. P. ManiKandan and H. El-Askary, "Ocean Color Modeling in the Central Red Sea Using Oceanographical Observation and Simulated Parameters," IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2020, pp. 5620-5623, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323304.; Le, J., El-Askary H., Allali, M., Sayed, E., Sweliem, H., Piechota, T., Struppa, D., “Characterizing El Niño-Southern Oscillation Effects on the Blue Nile Yield and the Nile River Basin Precipitation using Empirical Mode Decomposition”, Earth Syst Environ 4, 699–711 (2020).https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-020-00192-4.; Li, W.; El-Askary, H.; Thomas, R.; Tiwari, S.P.; Manikandan, K.P.; Piechota, T.; Struppa, D. An Assessment of the Hydrological Trends Using Synergistic Approaches of Remote Sensing and Model Evaluations over Global Arid and Semi-Arid Regions. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3973. doi: 10.3390/rs12233973; Li, W.; El-Askary, H.; Lakshmi, V.; Piechota, T.; Struppa, D. Earth Observation and Cloud Computing in Support of Two Sustainable Development Goals for the River Nile Watershed Countries. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1391.; Sudibyo S. Sardi, Wenzhao Li, Mohammad A. Qurban, Krishnakumar P.K., Mustafa M. Hariri, Bassam S. Al-Tawabini, Amjad B. Khalil, Hesham El-Askary, “ Assessment of areas environmentally sensitive to oil spills in the western Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, for planning and undertaking an effective response. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 150. 110588. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.110588.; Rommel Hilot Maneja, Jeffrey D Miller, Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Ace Vincent B Flandez, Joshua J Dagoy, Joselito Francis A Alcaria, Abdullajid U Basali, Khaled A Al-Abdulkader, Ronald A Loughland and Mohammed Ali B Qurban, “Long-term NDVI and recent vegetation cover profiles of major offshore island nesting sites of sea turtles in Saudi waters of the northern Arabian Gulf”, Ecological Indicators, Vol. 117, October 2020, 106612, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106612.; Li, Wenzhao; Tiwari, Surya; El-Askary, Hesham; Qurban, Mohammad; Amiridis, Vassilis; Kandan, Mani; Garay, Michael; Kalashnikova, Olga; Piechota, Tom; and Struppa, Daniele, “Synergistic use of Remote Sensing and Modeling for Estimating Net Primary Productivity in the Red Sea with VGPM, Eppley-VGPM and CbPM models Intercomparison, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2990373.; Zheng, J., Chu, H., Struppa, D., Zhang, J., Yacoub, M., El-Askary, H., Chang, A., Ehwerhemuepha, L., Abudayyeh, I., Barrett, A., Fu, G., Yao, H., Li, D., Guo, H., Rakovski, C., Optimal Multi-Stage Arrhythmia Classification Approach. Sci Rep 10, 2898 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59821-7; Li, W., Thomas, R., El-Askary, H., Piechota, T., Struppa, D. and Abel-Ghaffar, K. Investigating the Significance of Aerosols in Determining the Coronavirus Fatality Rate Among Three European Countries. Earth Syst Environ (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-020-00176-4; Raey M.E., Askary H.E. (2020) Remote Sensing and Modeling of Climate Changes in Egypt. In: Elbeih S., Negm A., Kostianoy A. (eds.) Environmental Remote Sensing in Egypt. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham; Maram Elnadry, Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Mohamed Awad , Alaa Ramadan, “Urban Health Related Air Quality Indicators over the Middle East and North Africa Countries using Multiple Satellites and AERONET Data”, Remote Sen. 11(18), 2096; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182096; Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Mohamed A Qurban, Jingjing Li, K. P ManiKandan, Thomas Piechota, "Using Multi-indices Approach to Quantify Mangrove Changes over the Western Arabian Gulf along Saudi Arabia Coast", Ecological Indicators, Volume 102, March 2019, Pages 734-745, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.03.047.; Nick Lahaye, Jordan Ott, Micheal Garay, Hesham El-Askary and Erik Linstead, “Toward Generic, Multi-Modal Object Tracking and Image Fusion with Unsupervised Deep Learning”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 1-11, 2019 10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2920234.; Gapper, J.J.; El-Askary, H.; Linstead, E.; Piechota, T. Coral Reef Change Detection in Remote Pacific Islands using Support Vector Machine Classifiers. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1525.; Odeyemi, Y., Pollind, M., Peeler, R., Nozawa, K., Vesely, D., Page, A., Rakovski, C. and El-Askary, H., “Review of Climate Research and Funding 2013-2017: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Approach,” Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters, 2019, 1, 94-101, doi:10.3808/jeil.201900011.; Li, Wenzhao, Ali, Elham, Abou El-Magd, Islam, Moustafa Mourad and El-Askary, Hesham, “Studying the Impact on Urban Health over the Greater Delta Region in Egypt due to Aerosol Variability using Optical Characteristics from Satellite Observations and Ground-Based AERONET Measurements” Remote Sen. 2019, 11, 1998; Hesham El-Askary, Wenzhao Li, Maram El-Nadry, M. Awad and Alaa R. Mostafa “Strong interactions Indicated between Dust Aerosols and Precipitation related Clouds in the Nile Delta”, Springer Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), 12-15, November, Tunisia 2018.; Luciano Rodriguez, Cyril Rakovski, Mohamed Allali, and Hesham El-Askary, “Long-Term Ground Based Precipitation Data Analysis in California: Spatial and Temporal Variability”, Springer Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), 12-15, November, Tunisia 2018.; Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Mohamed Qurban, Mohamed Allali and K. P. Manikandan, “On the drying trends over the MENA Countries using Harmonic Analysis of the Enhanced Vegetation Index” Springer Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), 12-15, November, Tunisia 2018.; Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. Editors: El-Askary, H., Lee, S., Heggy, E., Pradhan, B. (Eds.) Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, Springer 2019 ISBN 978-3-030-01440-7; IPCC Special report on Climate Change and Land. Chapter Three Desertification https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl-report-download-page/; Machine Learning and Data Mining in Aerospace Technology, Editors: Hassanien, Aboul Ella, Darwish, Ashraf, El-Askary, Hesham (Eds.) Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer 2019 ISBN 978-3-030-20212-5; Gapper, J.J.; El-Askary, H.; Linstead, E.; Piechota, T. Evaluation of Spatial Generalization Characteristics of a Robust Classifier as Applied to Coral Reef Habitats in Remote Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1774.; Kosmopoulos, P.G.; Kazadzis, S.; El-Askary, H.; Taylor, M.; Gkikas, A.; Proestakis, E.; Kontoes, C.; El-Khayat, M.M. Earth-Observation-Based Estimation and Forecasting of Particulate Matter Impact on Solar Energy in Egypt. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1870.; Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, Mohamed A. Qurban, Manolis E. Proestakis, Michael J. Garay, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Vassilis Amiridis, Antonis Gkikas, Eleni Marinou, Thomas Piechota, and K. P. ManiKandan, “An Assessment to Atmospheric and Meteorological Factors Regulating Red Sea Phytoplankton Growth”, Remote Sensing, 10(5), 673; doi.org/10.3390/rs10050673, 2018.; A. T. Fontenot, H. M. El-Askary, M. J. Garay, J. R. Campbell and O. V. Kalashnikova, "Characterizing the Impact of Aerosols on Pre-Hurricane Sandy," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1378-1386, May 2018. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2813095; Hesham El-Askary, Jingjing Li, Wenzhao Li, Thomas Piechota, Tommy Ta, Ariane Jong, Xinyi Zhang and Tiantian Yang, “Impacts of Aerosols on the Retreat of the Sierra Nevada Glaciers in California,” Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 10.4209/aaqr.2018.03.0089, 2018.; Kristen Whitney, Elia Scudiero, Hesham M. El-Askary, Todd H. Skaggs, Mohamed Allali, Dennis L. Corwin, Validating the use of MODIS time series for salinity assessment over agricultural soils in California, USA, Ecological Indicators, Volume 93, October 2018, Pages 889-898, ISSN 1470-160X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.069.; Dimitra Konsta, Ioannis Binietoglou, Antonis Gkikas, Stavros Solomos, Eleni Marinou, Emmanouil Proestakis, Sara Basart, Carlos Perez, Hesham El-Askary and Vassilis Amiridis, “Evaluation of BSC-DREAM8b v2 regional dust model using the 3D LIVAS-CALIPSO product”, Atmospheric Environment, 195, 46-62, ISSN 1352-2310, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.09.047.; J. A. Le, H. M. El-Askary, M. Allali, D. C. Struppa, “Application of recurrent neural networks for drought projections in California”, Atmospheric Research, 188, 100-106, 2017.; Wenzhao Li, Hesham El-Askary, K.P. Manikandan, Mohamed Qurban, Michael J. Garay, Olga V. Kalashnikova “Synergistic Use of Remote Sensing and Modeling for the Chlorophyll-a Concentration Anomalies during summer 2015 at South Central Red Sea” Remote Sensing9(8), 778; doi:10.3390/rs9080778, 2017.; El-Askary H., Nick LaHaye, Erik Linstead, William A. Sprigg, Magdi Yacoub, “Remote sensing observation of annual dust cycle and possible causality of Kawasaki disease outbreaks in Japan”, Global Cardiology Science and Practice”, 2017:22 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2017.22; Ashraf Farahat, Hesham El-Askary, Peter Adetokunbo and Abu Tharr Fuad, “Analysis of aerosol absorption properties and transport over North Africa and the Middle East using AERONET data”, Annales Geophysicea, 34, 1031-1044, 2016.; Ashraf Farahat, Hesham El-Askary and Umran Dogan, “Aerosols size distribution characteristics and role of precipitation during dust storm formation over Saudi Arabia", Aerosol and Air Quality Research, vol. 16, No.10: 2523-2534, doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2015.11.0656, 2016; Ashraf Farahat, Hesham El-Askary and Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, “Study of Aerosols’ Characteristics and Dynamics over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using a Multi Sensor Approach Combined with Ground Observations” Advances In Meteorology, vol. 2015, Article ID 247531, 12 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/247531.; Sunmin Park, Hesham El-Askary, Ismail Sabbah, Hanbin Kwak, Anup Prasad, Woo-Kyun Lee and Menas Kafatos, “Studying Air Pollutants Origin and Associated Meteorological Parameters over Seoul from 2000 to 2009” Advances In Meteorology, vol. 2015, Article ID 704178, 12 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/704178.; El-Askary H., Seon k. Park, Myung-Hwan Ahn, Anup Prasad, and Menas Kafatos, “On the Detection and Monitoring of the transport of an Asian Dust Storm Approaching the Korean Peninsula” Journal of Environmental Informatics, JEI 25(2)2015, 99-116, 2015.; Hesham El-Askary, Seon K. Park, Slobodan Nickovic, and Mian Chin, “Remote Sensing and Modeling of Atmospheric Dust and Studying Its Impact on Environment, Weather, and Climate,” Advances in Meteorology, vol. 2015, Article ID 854968, 2 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/854968; A. Vukovic, M. Vujadinovic, G. Pejanovic, J. Andric, M. J. Kumjian, V. Djurdjevic, M. Dacic, A. K. Prasad, H. M. El-Askary, B. C. Paris, S. Petkovic, W. Sprigg, and S. Nickovic, “Numerical Simulation of “An American Haboob””, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 3211-3230, 2014.; El-Askary H., Hamdy S., J. Li, Hattab M., and El-Raey M., “Change Detection of Coral Reef Habitat Using Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+ Data and Landsat-8 OLI in the Red Sea (Hurghada, Egypt)”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(6): 2327–2346, 2014.; Sora Kim, Anup Prasad, Hesham El-Askary, Woo-Kyun Lee, Doo-Ahn Kwak, Seung-Ho Lee, and Menas Kafatos “Application of the Savitzky–Golay Filter to Land Cover Classification using Temporal MODIS Vegetation Indices”, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 80 (7), 675-685, 2014.; William Sprigg, Slobodan Nickovic, John N Galgiani, Goran Pejanovic, Slavko Petkovic, Mirjam Vujadinovic, Ana Vukovic, Milan Dacic; Scott DiBiase, Anup Prasad and Hesham El-Askary “ Regional dust storm modeling for health services: the case of valley fever”, Journal of Aeolian Research (In Press, 2014); Y. Aboel Fetouh, H. El Askary, El Raey, M. Allali, W. A. Sprigg, and M. Kafatos “Annual Patterns of Atmospheric Pollutions and Episodes over Cairo Egypt” Advances In Meteorology, vol. 2013, Article ID 984853, doi:10.1155/2013/984853, 2013.; Clare M. Goodess, Maureen D. Agnew, Debbie Hemming, Christos Giannakopoulos, Marco Bindi, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mutasem El-Fadel, Mamdouh El-Hattab, Mohamed El-Raey, Roberto Ferrise, José M. Grünzweig, Ali Harzallah, Dina Kanas, Piero Lionello, César Mösso Aranda, Theib Oweis, Joan Pau Sierra, Marco Reale, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Rolf Sommer, Annalisa Tanzarella, Chapter 6 “Synthesis and the Assessment of Adaptation Measures”. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 163-201, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Clare M. Goodess, Maureen D. Agnew, Christos Giannakopoulos, Debbie Hemming, Skander Ben Salem, Marco Bindi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Letizia Congedi, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mutasem El-Fadel, Mohamed El-Raey, Roberto Ferrise, Dimitra Founda, José M. Grünzweig, Ali Harzallah, Maria Hatzaki, Gillian Kay, Piero Lionello, César Mösso Aranda, Theib Oweis, Joan Pau Sierra, Basil Psiloglou, Marco Reale, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Annalisa Tanzarella, Konstantinos V. Varotsos, Chapter 5 “Integration of the Climate Impact Assessments with Future Projections”, Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 105-162, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Debbie Hemming, Maureen D. Agnew, Clare M. Goodess, Christos Giannakopoulos, Skander Ben Salem, Marco Bindi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Letizia Congedi, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mutasem El-Fadel, Mohamed El-Raey, Roberto Ferrise, José M. Grünzweig, Ali Harzallah, Abdallah Hattour, Maria Hatzaki, Dina Kanas, Piero Lionello, Mark McCarthy, César Mösso Aranda, Theib Oweis, Joan Pau Sierra, Basil Psiloglou, Marco Reale, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Annalisa Tanzarella, Chapter 4 “Climate Impact Assessments”, Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 61-104, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Maureen D. Agnew, Clare M. Goodess, Debbie Hemming, Christos Giannakopoulos, Skander Ben Salem, Marco Bindi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mutasem El-Fadel, Mohamed El-Raey, Roberto Ferrise, José M. Grünzweig, Ali Harzallah, Abdallah Hattour, Maria Hatzaki, Dina Kanas, Effie Kostopoulou, Piero Lionello, Theib Oweis, Cosimo Pino, Basil Psiloglou, Salah Sahabi Abed, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Mohamed Zoheir Taleb, Annalisa Tanzarella, Chapter 3 “Physical and Socio-economic Indicators”, Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 39-60, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Maureen D. Agnew, Clare M. Goodess, Debbie Hemming, Christos Giannakopoulos, Marco Bindi, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mamdouh El-Hattab, Mohamed El-Raey, Roberto Ferrise, Ali Harzallah, Maria Hatzaki, Effie Kostopoulou, Piero Lionello, Salah Sahabi Abed, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Rolf Sommer, Mohamed Zoheir Taleb, Annalisa Tanzarella, Chapter 2 “Stakeholders”, Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 23-37, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Maureen D. Agnew, Clare M. Goodess, Debbie Hemming, Christos Giannakopoulos, Skander Ben Salem, Marco Bindi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Letizia Congedi, Camilla Dibari, Hesham El-Askary, Mutasem El-Fadel, Roberto Ferrise, José M. Grünzweig, Ali Harzallah, Abdallah Hattour, Maria Hatzaki, Dina Kanas, Effie Kostopoulou, Piero Lionello, Theib Oweis, Cosimo Pino, Marco Reale, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Mohamed Senouci, Chapter 1 “Introduction”, Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. Advances in Global Change Research Volume 52, 2013, pp 3-21, Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.; Kaskaoutis, D. G., Prasad, A.K., Kosmopoulos, P.G., Sinha, P.R., Kharol, S.K., Gupta, P., El-Askary, H.M., and Kafatos, M., “Synergistic use of remote sensing and modeling for tracing dust storms in the Mediterranean” Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2012, Article ID 861026, doi:10.1155/2012/861026 2012.; El-Askary, H.M., Allali, M., Rakovski, C., Prasad, A.K., Kafatos, M., and Struppa, D., “Computational Methods for Climate Data”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, WIREs Comp Stat. doi: 10.1002/wics.1213, 2012.; Goodess C.M., Agnew M.D., Giannakopoulos C., Hemming D., Bindi M., Bradai M. N., Congedi L., Dibari C., El-Askary H., El-Raey M., Ferrise R., Founda D., Grünzweig J., Harzallah A., Hatzaki M., Kay G., Kostopoulou E., Lionello P., Mösso C., Oweis T., Psiloglou B., Reale M., Salem S. B., Sanchez-Arcilla A., Senouci M., Tanzarella A. and Varotsos K. 2011. Integration of the climate impact assessments with future projections. In Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: A. Navarra, L. Tubiana (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (In Press); El-Askary H., Prasad A.K., Kallos G., El-Raey M., and Kafatos M., Analyzing Black Cloud Dynamics over Cairo, Nile Delta Region and Alexandria using Aerosols and Water Vapor Data Chapter 12 in InTECH open access publisher Book: Air Quality-Models and Applications, ISBN 978-953-307-307-1, 2011. http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/analyzing-black-cloud-dynamics-over-cairo-nile-delta-region-and-alexandria-using-aerosols-and-water-; Prasad A.K., El-Askary H., Asrar G.R., and Kafatos M., “Accelerated Melting of Major Glaciers in Himalayas: Regional Implications of Climate Variability and Change” Chapter X in InTECH open access publisher Book: Global Warming, ISBN 978-953-308-97-6, 2011 (In Press); Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla, Cesar Mosso, Joan Pau Sierra, Marc Mestres, Ali Harzallah, Mohamed Senouci, Mohamed El Raey and Hesham El-Askary, “Erratum to: Climatic drivers of potential hazards in Mediterranean coasts”, Journal of Regional Environmental Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10113-011-0206-0, 2011. The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1007/s10113-010-0193-6.; Gerasopoulos, E., Amiridis, V., Kazadzis, S., Kokkalis, P., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M.O., Andreae T.W., El-Askary, H., Zerefos, C.S., “Three-year ground based measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth over the Eastern Mediterranean: the urban environment of Athens” Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 2145–2159, doi:10.5194/acp-11-2145-2011, 2011.; Marey, H. S., Gille, J. C., El-Askary, H. M., Shalaby, E. A., and El-Raey, M. E.: Aerosol Climatology over Nile Delta based on MODIS, MISR and OMI satellite data, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 10449-10484, doi:10.5194/acpd-11-10449-2011, 2011.; Marey H., Gille J., El-Askary H., Shalaby S., and El-Raey M., “Study of the formation of the "Black Cloud" and its dynamics over Cairo, Egypt using MODIS and MISR sensors”, Journal of Geophysical Research 115, D21206, doi:10.1029/2010JD014384, 2010.; Prasad A. K., El-Askary H., and Kafatos M., “High altitude dust transport over Nile Delta during biomass burning season”, Environmental Pollution 158, 3385-3391, 2010 doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.035.; Al-Agamii D., Ramadan A., El-Raey M., El-Askary H., El-Wadaii A.A., Hadad A., Ashaa B.O., and Tawfik M.A., “Atmosphere,” Chapter 7 in “The Environment Outlook for the Arab Region” United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Press, United Nations (UN), 2010. (Arabic Version released, but the English version (In Press) http://www.unep.org/dewa/westasia/eoar/); Prasad A. K. K.-H. S. Yang, El-Askary H., and M. Kafatos M., “Melting of major Glaciers in the western Himalayas: evidence of climatic changes from long term MSU derived tropospheric temperature trend (1979-2008)” Annales Geophysicea, 27, 4505–4519, 2009.; El-Askary H., Farouk R., Ichoku C., and Kafatos M., “Inter-continental transport of dust and pollution aerosols across Alexandria, Egypt” Annales Geophysicea, 27, 2869–2879, 2009; El-Askary H., and Kafatos M, “Dust Storm and Black Cloud Influence on Aerosol Optical Properties over Cairo and the Greater Delta Region, Egypt” International Journal of Remote Sensing 29(24): 7199–7211, 2008, doi: 10.1080/01431160802144179; Agarwal A., El-Askary H., El-Ghazawi T., Kafatos M., and Le-Moigne J., “Efficient PCA Fusion Techniques for MISR Multi-angle Observations with Applications to Monitoring Dust Storms” IEEE .Geosc. and Remote Sensing Letters, 4(4): 678-682, 2007, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.904467.; El-Askary H., and Kafatos M, “Natural and Anthropogenic Aerosol-Related Hazards Affecting Megacities,” Chapter 10 in “Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation” Cambridge University Press, 2007.; El-Askary H., “Air pollution Impact on Aerosol Variability over mega cities using Remote Sensing Technology: Case study, Cairo,” Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science, V. 9, 31-40, 2006.; El-Askary H., Gautam R., Singh R. P., and Kafatos M., “Dust Storms Detection over the Indo-Gangetic basin using multi sensor data,” Advances in Space Research Journal, 37: 728-733, 2006, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.134.; El-Askary H., Sarkar S., Chiu L., Kafatos M., and El-Gahzawi T., “Rain Gauge Derived Precipitation Variability over Virginia and its Relation with the EL NINO Southern Oscillation (ENSO),” Advances in Space Research Journal, 33: 338-342, 2004, doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00478-2.; El-Askary H., Gautam R., and Kafatos M., “Remote Sensing of Dust Storms over the Indo-Gangetic Basin,” Indian Journal of Remote Sensing, 32(2): 121-124, 2004, doi:10.1007/BF03030869; El-Askary H., Sarkar, S., Kafatos, M., and El-Gazawi, T., “A Multi-Sensor Approach to Dust Storm Monitoring over the Nile Delta,” IEEE Trans. Geosc. Remote Sensing, 41(10): 2386-2391, 2003, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817189.

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