Salwa Farouk Khalil Elbeih

Biography

Dr. Salwa F. Elbeih is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the Engineering Applications and Water Division, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo Egypt since May 2014. She has obtained her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University in 2007. She is the acting head of the engineering applications department at NARSS. She is a P.I. for an ASRT funded project entitled: " Production of an Atlas for Hydrogeological Maps of the Southwestern Desert of Egypt". She participated in several funded national and international cooperation projects including (TEMPUS – Project) 2009-2012, (SUDSOE), FP7 2012-2014, (RDI Programme) 2010 -2012. She is one of the national associate editors of the Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (EJRS) and a reviewer in more than six international journals. Her research interests comprise: applications of remote sensing and GIS in civil engineering, environmental and geotechnical engineering, using remote sensing techniques for mapping areas of problematic oils and the relation between archaeological and water resources conditions. She received a prize from the ministry of water resources and irrigation (2010), best paper in the 6th International Conference on Environmental Hydrology and 2009.

Research Interest

applications of remote sensing and GIS in civil engineering, environmental and geotechnical engineering, using remote sensing techniques for mapping areas of problematic oils and the relation between archaeological and water resources conditions