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GIS APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN FOOTPRINT AND LAND MANAGEMENT : AN EXAMPLE IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

The main objective of this study was to build a spatial GIS database for land management on the AL Sammalyah Island. Twenty GIS layers were created to populate the database. GIS overlay analysis was applied to five major land cover types between 1999 and 2005. The study drew the attention on the fact that real increase took place in most important land cover types namely mangrove, palm trees, and buildings registering more than 336%, 130%, and 300% increase in six years. Finally, building the GIS database was a real success; managers of the island started to use it to do measurements and generate statistics for land management, consequently reliability and flexibility of the remote sensing and GIS products were demonstrated. .