Said Nawar
Reseach Fellow
Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute
Cranfield University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Nawar joined Cranfield University as a research fellow in Soil and Agrifood institute in September 2015. He graduated in soil and water sciences at Suez Canal University in Egypt. He then achieved a PhD in Earth sciences at Jagiellonian University, Poland. Dr Nawar started his career as a university assistant at Suez Canal University. Now, he is working as a lecturer in soil and water sciences at Suez Canal University. He has a background in remote sensing and digital soil mapping. He has 2 years’ experience in proximal soil sensing with specific applications in digital soil mapping and precision agricultural. He has implemented the vis-NIR spectroscopy for the analysis of soil properties and has some peer-reviewed papers in international journals.
Research Interest
Nawar's key research areas are: Digital soil mapping and remote sensing Proximal soil sensing and in precision agriculture Near infrared spectroscopy and predictive modeling Mid-Infrared and X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) applications in soils Monitoring of hydrocarbon contamination in soils
Publications
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Nawar S, Buddenbaum H & Hill J (2015) Digital Mapping of Soil Properties Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis and ASTER Data in an Arid Region, Remote Sensing, 7 (2) 1181-1205.
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Nawar S, Buddenbaum H, Hill J, Kozak J & Mouazen A (2016) Estimating the soil clay content and organic matter by means of different calibration methods of vis-NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Soil and Tillage Research, 155 (January) 510-522.
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Nawar S & Mouazen AM (2017) Predictive performance of mobile vis-near infrared spectroscopy for key soil properties at different geographical scales by using spiking and data mining techniques, CATENA, 151 118-129.
