The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has given great attention to the environment and sustainable development through
applications of best practices of global standards that ensure optimal investment in natural resources. Since the UAE is
located in an arid region which is known as dry, sandy and get a small amount of rainfall, thus the water resources are
limited and accordingly, the government has initiated an integrated water resources management (IWRM) strategy to meet
the increasing demands of water. Dams are considered as one of the important strategies that are suitable for this arid
region. An event of rainfall if between heavy to severe in a short duration could cause flash floods and damages to
population centers and areas of agriculture nearby. To prevent that from happening, several dams and barriers were built
to protect human life and infrastructure. Besides contribution to enhance the water resources and use them optimally to
irrigate the growing agricultural areas across the country. Geographically, most of the dams were located in the northern
and eastern part of the UAE, around mountainous areas. This study aims to monitor the changes that occurred to five dams
of the north-eastern region of the UAE during 2015 and 2016 through the use of remote sensing technology of optical
images captured by "DubaiSat-2". The segmentation approach utilized in this study is based on a band ratio technique
called Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI). The experimental results revealed that the proposed approach is
efficient in detecting dams from multispectral satellite images.
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