Affiliation: National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space sciences, Cairo
University / Institution: National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space sciences
Department: Department of Soil sciences
Designation: Professor
Country: Egypt
Professor Elsayed Said Mohamed Salama is a Professor of Soil and Remote Sensing and a specialist in Remote Sensing and GIS applications for land degradation assessment, land rehabilitation, and sustainable resource planning. He is currently a Consultant of Land Degradation and Rehabilitation at the National Center for Vegetation Cover (NCVC), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He previously served as Professor and Head of the Soil Department at the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Egypt (2018–2024), and held earlier academic and research positions at NARSS since 2001. He received his B.Sc. in Land and Water from Al-Azhar University (2000), M.Sc. in Land from Zagazig University (2006), and Ph.D. in Land from Moscow State University (2011). His research interests include land degradation and rehabilitation, land evaluation, soil and water pollution assessment, climate change impacts on agriculture, smart agriculture monitoring, and soil erosion studies. Prof. Salama has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles (H-index: 38), authored a Springer book, and holds a patent for the EGYPADS software (2021). He has supervised numerous graduate theses and received multiple research and excellence awards