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in addition to the application of remote sensing in land use/land cover classifi-
cation. This Chap. 2 also reviews the literature on the current state of knowledge
on regional scale crop area estimate approaches. This includes crop area estimates
using remotely sensed data, the importance of temporal and spatial resolution, and
the ability of satellite imagery to discriminate among crops.
The Chap. 3 describes the study area of the Euphrates River Basin, Syria. In
this chapter the location, irrigation projects, climate, morphology, soil, hydrology,
land use/land cover and human impacts are discussed. Chapter 4 describes the
common resources that were available for this study, including satellite data, maps,
field reference data, statistics and another ancillary data. Chapter 5 discusses the
pre-processing techniques applied to the satellite images in order to obtain data
with low calibration errors as a prerequisite for interpretation and comparison.
Emphasis was placed on the geometric and radiometric accuracy of the processed
data. In addition, research methodology, image processing, image classification
and accuracy assessment are outlined in this chapter. In Chap. 6 , results, analysis
and thematic interpretations are discussed. The overall summary, general con-
clusions and recommendations of the research study are provided in Chap. 7 .

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