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  1. Correction: Gaznayee et al. Integrating Remote Sensing Techniques and Meteorological Data to Assess the Ideal Irrigation System Performance Scenarios for Improving Crop Productivity. Water 2023, 15, 1605

    Article • Water, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  2. Spatial Modeling of Flood Hazard in Addis Ababa Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Information Gain Ratio (IGR) Method

    Article • Journal of Flood Risk Management, September 2025, Wiley

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  3. Geospatial Analysis and Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) for Predicting Soil Erosion: A Case Study in Deder District, Oromia, Ethiopia

    Article • Advances in Space Research, July 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  4. Assessing climate and land use impacts on surface water yield using remote sensing and machine learning

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  5. Predicting forest above-ground biomass using SAR imagery and GEDI data through machine learning in GEE cloud

    Article • Forest Science and Technology, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  6. Forecasting Evaporation Trends Amid Climate Change for Sustainable Water Management in Semi-Arid Regions

    Article • Water, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  7. Estimation of LAI across phenological stages of wheat using google earth engine

    Article • Applied Geomatics, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  8. Evaluating ecological impacts through geospatial analysis of land use land cover dynamics in Jarmet wetland ecosystems in Western Ethiopia

    Article • ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  9. Site selection and storage system design for rainwater harvesting with artificial recharge based on hydrogeological and socio-economic consideration in qualitative and quantitative water-stressed areas of North 24 Parganas, India

    Article • Arabian Journal of Geosciences, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  10. Rainwater Harvesting Site Selection for Drought-Prone Areas in Somali and Borena Zones, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: A Geospatial and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

    Article • Water, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  11. Remote sensing, artificial neural networks, and spatial interpolation methods for modelling soil chemical characteristics

    Article • Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  12. Machine learning and remote sensing based time series analysis for drought risk prediction in Borena Zone, Southwest Ethiopia

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  13. Groundwater delineation for sustainable improvement and development aided by GIS, AHP, and MIF techniques

    Article • Applied Water Science, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  14. Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Rainfall-Runoff in Northern Iraq: A Case Study of Kirkuk Governorate, a Semi-Arid Region

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bashar F. Maaroof, Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  15. Assessing Soil Erosion Vulnerability in Semi-Arid Haouz Plain, Marrakech, Morocco: Land Cover, Socio-Spatial Mutations, and Climatic Variations

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  16. Desertification in Algeria and Turkey: Climate Change Leading to “Natural Selection” of Restoration Concepts

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  17. Exploring the Interconnection Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Natural Resource Degradation in the Central Region of Morocco

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  18. GIS-Based Erosion Potential Method (EPM) for Soil Degradation Evaluation: A Case Study the Northeast of Morocco

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  19. Geoinformatics Approaches to Climate Change-Induced Soil Degradation in the MENA Region: A Review

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  20. Google Earth Engine (GEE) to Detect Vegetation Cover Changes in Northwest of Libya

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  21. Impact of Climate Change on Iraq: Severe Water Scarcity and Desertification

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  22. Impact of Green Generation, Green Morocco, and Climate Change Programs on Water Resources in Morocco

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  23. Leveraging Geoinformatics to Analyze Environmental Contamination Amidst Climate Change in the MENA Region: A Review

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  24. Monitoring Drifting Sand Using Spectral Index and Landsat TM/OLI Datasets in Bahr An-Najaf Area, Iraq

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  25. Monitoring Greenhouse Gases Emissions in Northern Africa Using Spatio-Temporal Analysis with Google Earth Engine (2019–2022)

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  26. Predicting Soil Erosion Using RUSLE Model in Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  27. Spectral Angle Mapper Approach (SAM) for Land Degradation Mapping: A Case Study of the Oued Lahdar Watershed in the Pre-Rif Region (Morocco)

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  28. Climate Change and Environmental Degradation in the MENA Region

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Professor Bashar F. Maaroof

  29. Soil erosion vulnerability and soil loss estimation for Siran River watershed, Pakistan: an integrated GIS and remote sensing approach

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  30. Predictive Digital Mapping of Surface Soil Properties using Remote Sensing and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

    Article • ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, December 2023, Salahaddin University - Erbil

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  31. Integrated geospatial approach for adaptive rainwater harvesting site selection under the impact of climate change

    Article • Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bashar F. Maaroof, Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  32. Mapping of current and future soil erosion risk in a semi-arid context (haouz plain - Marrakech) based on CMIP6 climate models, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and RUSLE

    Article • Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  33. Analysis of land use/land cover change (LULCC) and debris flow risks in Adama district, Ethiopia, aided by numerical simulation and deep learning-based remote sensing

    Article • Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  34. Environmental Threat of Soil Erosion in the Gwang Khola Watershed, Chure Region of Nepal

    Article • Iraqi Geological Journal, May 2023, Union of Iraqi Geologists (UIG)

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  35. Integrating Remote Sensing Techniques and Meteorological Data to Assess the Ideal Irrigation System Performance Scenarios for Improving Crop Productivity

    Article • Water, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  36. Climate Change Impacts on LULC in the Jarmet Wetland and its Surrounding Areas in Western Ethiopia

    Article • Hydrospatial Analysis, March 2023, Gatha Cognition

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  37. Drought Severity and Frequency Analysis Aided by Spectral and Meteorological Indices in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • Water, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  38. Modelling and mapping of soil erosion susceptibility using machine learning in a tropical hot sub-humid environment

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  39. Advances in Land–Ocean Heat Fluxes Using Remote Sensing

    Article • Remote Sensing, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  40. Coastal vulnerability assessment of India's Purba Medinipur-Balasore coastal stretch: A comparative study using empirical models

    Article • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, July 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  41. Assessment of spatio-temporal trends of satellite-based aerosol optical depth using Mann–Kendall test and Sen’s slope estimator model

    Article • Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  42. A Geospatial Approach for Analysis of Drought Impacts on Vegetation Cover and Land Surface Temperature in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • Water, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  43. Special Section Guest Editorial: Coastal Zone Remote Sensing for Environmental Sustainability

    Article • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, February 2022, SPIE

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  44. New approaches: Use of assisted natural succession in revegetation of inhabited arid drylands as alternative to large-scale afforestation

    Article • SN Applied Sciences, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  45. Environmental Degradation in Asia

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Dr. Yaseen Taha Mustafa

  46. Sahel Afforestation and Simulated Risks of Heatwaves and Flooding Versus Ecological Revegetation That Combines Planting and Succession

    Article • Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, January 2022, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  47. Assessment of Land Degradation Vulnerability Using GIS-Based Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Zakho District, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Dr. Yaseen Taha Mustafa

  48. Desertification in China: Role of Natural Succession in the Sustainable Revegetation of Drylands

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  49. Role of Effective Factors on Soil Erosion and Land Degradation: A Review

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Dr. Yaseen Taha Mustafa

  50. Sustainable Renaturation in Desertification Control: Expediting the Natural Succession of Large-Scale Vegetation in Drylands

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  51. Drought Spatiotemporal Characteristics Based on a Vegetation Condition Index in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

    Article • Iraqi Journal of Science, December 2021, University of Baghdad College of Science

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  52. Modelling Habitat Suitability for the Breeding Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions A Science, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  53. Drought severity trend analysis based on the Landsat time-series dataset of 1998-2017 in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, June 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  54. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown upon the air quality and surface urban heat island intensity over the United Arab Emirates

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  55. Drought trend analysis in a semi-arid area of Iraq based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index and Standardized Precipitation Index

    Article • Journal of Arid Land, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  56. Detection and modeling of soil salinity variations in arid lands using remote sensing data

    Article • Open Geosciences, January 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  57. Potential of Multispectral Satellite Data for Superficial Iron Oxide Detection in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan Region

    Article • Journal of Geoinformatics & Environmental Research, December 2020, Interdisciplinary Publishing Academia

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  58. A Comparative Study for Performance of Five Landsat-based Vegetation Indices: Their Relations to Some Ecological and Terrain Variables

    Article • Journal of Geoinformatics & Environmental Research, November 2020, Interdisciplinary Publishing Academia

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  59. Retrieval of monthly maximum and minimum air temperature using MODIS aqua land surface temperature data over the United Arab Emirates

    Article • Geocarto International, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  60. Predicting and mapping land cover/land use changes in Erbil /Iraq using CA-Markov synergy model

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  61. Color slices analysis of land use changes due to urbanization in a city environment of Miami Area, South Florida, USA

    Article • Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  62. GIS-Based Modeling for Selection of Dam Sites in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  63. Mapping of ferric ( and ferrous ( iron oxides distribution using band ratio techniques with ASTER data and geochemistry of Kanjamalai and Godumalai, Tamil Nadu, south India

    Article • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  64. Identifying Drought Status in Duhok Governorate (Iraqi Kurdistan Region) from 1998 through 2012 using Landsat Time Series Dataset

    Article • Journal of Applied Science and Technology Trends, March 2020, Interdisciplinary Publishing Academia

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  65. GIS-based modeling for selection of dam sites in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  66. Glacier changes monitoring in Bhutan High Himalaya using remote sensing technology

    Article • Environmental Engineering Research, January 2020, Korean Society of Environmental Engineering

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  67. Application of SAW and TOPSIS in Prioritizing Watersheds

    Article • Water Resources Management, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  68. Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS in Iraq

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  69. Analysis of Agricultural Drought, Rainfall, and Crop Yield Relationships in Erbil Province, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq based on Landsat Time-Series MSAVI2

    Article • Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, December 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  70. Analysis of Agricultural Drought’s Severity and Impacts in Erbil Province, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region based on Time Series NDVI and TCI Indices for 1998 through 2017

    Article • Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, November 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  71. CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING SURFACE SOIL PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES USING LANDSAT IMAGES: A CASE STUDY IN THE IRAQI KURDISTAN REGION

    Article • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, September 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  72. Agricultural Drought Monitoring Over Iraq Utilizing MODIS Products

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  73. Drought Monitoring Using Spectral and Meteorological Based Indices Combination: A Case Study in Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  74. Proximal Soil Sensing for Soil Monitoring

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  75. Using Radar and Optical Data for Soil Salinity Modeling and Mapping in Central Iraq

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  76. Introduction to “Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS in Iraq”

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  77. Updates, Conclusions, and Recommendations for Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS in Iraq

    Article • August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  78. Using L-band radar data for soil salinity mapping—a case study in Central Iraq

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, August 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  79. Zoning Areas Susceptible to Land Subsidence in Tigris and Euphrates Basins

    Article • Engineering and Technology Journal, July 2019, University of Technology

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  80. Soil salinity prediction and mapping by machine learning regression in Central Mesopotamia, Iraq

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  81. Spatial and decadal variations in satellite-based terrestrial evapotranspiration and drought over Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China during 1982–2009

    Article • Journal of Earth System Science, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  82. Sand dunes monitoring using remote sensing and GIS techniques for some sites in Iraq

    Article • March 2013, SPIE

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  83. Drought mapping using Geoinformation technology for some sites in the Iraqi Kurdistan region

    Article • International Journal of Digital Earth, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  84. Evaluation of EDI derived from the exponential evapotranspiration model for monitoring China’s surface drought

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  85. Design a Dynamic Monitoring System of Land Degradation Using Geoinformation Technology for the Northern Part of Shaanxi Province, China

    Article • Journal of Applied Sciences, September 2004, Science Alert

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi

  86. Soil Erosion Risk Prediction with RS and GIS for the Northwestern Part of Hebei Province, China

    Article • Journal of Applied Sciences, September 2003, Science Alert

    Professor Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi