Eman Ghoneim

Dr. Eman Ghoneim (Arabic: إيمان غنيم‎) is an Egyptian geomorphologist with a primary focus on the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and the use of Hydrologic modeling in Flash flood hazard and Groundwater exploration in arid environments.[1]

During her research, she uses satellite images for both detecting subsurface groundwater accumulation and land / submarine springs using the thermal ASTER and MODIS data. She worked in a project that uses both the GIS and Hydrologic model for groundwater exploration in the northern United Arab Emirates, U.S. and the Red Sea area in Egypt.

She received her PhD in 2002 from the School of Geography, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She is also a lecturer in the Geography Department, at Tanta University, Egypt.[1]

Dr. Ghoneim joined the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing in the beginning of 2003.[1] In 2006 March 2006 she joined Dr. Farouk El-Baz in a research that resulted in discovering the Kebira Crater, a possible impact crater (astrobleme) in the Sahara. In 2007, while she was investigating different space data, she has discovered an ancient Mega-Lake (30,750 km²) buried beneath the sand of the Great Sahara in the Northern Darfur region, Sudan.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Eman Ghoneim, Center for Remote Sensing". Boston University. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
  2. ↑ Brahic, Catherine (12 April 2007). "Ancient mega-lake discovered in Darfur". NewScientist. Retrieved 31 December 2012.


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