الفهرس 
Geology
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Abstract
The dramatic increase of the world‟s population is inducing enormous pressure on natural resources (Santana-Cordero et al., 2016 and Hanh et al., 2017). This pressure causes multiple environmental problems for land and water systems (Tengberg et al., 2016), and therefore, appropriate land-use and management strategies are needed to reduce the magnitude of these human impacts (Lal et al., 2009 and Brevik et al., 2013). Therefore, the efficient management of natural resources in Egypt is essential for ensuring food supplies and sustainability in agricultural development (FAO, 1993 and Bodaghabadi et al., 2015). For that governorate exerts great efforts to recover the gap between population and food production (Sayed, 2013). There is an urgent need to match land resource and land use in the most effective and logical way to continue sustainable production and to meet the needs of society while conserving fragile ecosystems (FAO 1993). Land evaluation is the process of estimating the potential of land for alternative kinds of use. This means, land evaluation is a vital link in the chain leading to sustainable management of land resources and the fitness of given type of land for different crops. Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) techniques were used in order to implement this study, where, remote sensing and GIS techniques proved to be effective in management, detection, prediction and planning studies. The combination of RS and GIS could proved a powerful means for analyzing and synthesizing information about land resources.