About Us

Dr. Abuelgasim is currently an associate professor of geography with Rabdan Academy in the United Arab Emirates. Prior he served as an associate professor of geography with UAE university. Dr. Abuelgasim received both his masters and PhD degrees from Boston University, USA. After which he joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, as a visiting scientist where he worked in a research program exploiting multi-angle remote sensing observations. He later relocated to Canada where he has been with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the Canadian Space Agency as a research scientist.

1. Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, Boston University, USA
2. Master of Arts in Geography, Boston University, USA

World regional geography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, physical geography

Dr. Abuelgasim research and teaching interests are focused on the analysis of geospatial data for information products generation, physical and human geography, hydrology, and on the effects of human induced environmental and ecological changes.

1. Gordana Kaplan, Mateo Gašparović, Abduldaem S. Alqasemi, Alya Aldhaheri, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Majed Ibrahim, “Soil salinity prediction using Machine Learning and Sentinel – 2 Remote Sensing Data in Hyper – Arid areas,” Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, Volume 130, 2023, 103400, ISSN 1474-7065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2023.103400.
2. Muhagir El Kamali, Hakim Saibi, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Land surface deformation monitoring in the Al-Ain arid region (UAE) using microgravity and SAR interferometry surveys, Environmental Research, Volume 212, Part D, 2022, 113505, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113505.
3. Farahat, A., Mayyasi, M., Withers, P., Dayeh, M. A., & Abuelgasim, A. (2021). Effects of the June 2018 global dust storm on the atmospheric composition of the Martian upper atmosphere as observed by MAVEN. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, e2021JE006868. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006868 
4. Maher A. Dayeh, Ashraf Farahat, Haifa Ismail-Aldayeh, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, “Effects of aerosols on lightning activity over the Arabian Peninsula, Atmospheric Research, Volume 261, 2021, 105723, ISSN 0169-8095, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105723.
5. Abuelgasim, A., Bilal, M., Alfaki, I.A., Spatiotemporal Variations and Long Term Trends Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth over the United Arab Emirates, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100532.
6. Gebhardt, C., Abuelgasim, A., Fonseca, R. M., MartínTorres, J., & Zorzano, M.‐P. (2021). Characterizing dust‐radiation feedback and refining the horizontal resolution of the marswrf model down to 0.5 Degree. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, e2020JE006672. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006672 
7. Muhagir El Kamali, Ioannis Papoutsis, Constantinos Loupasakis, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Khalid Omari, Charalampos Kontoes, “Monitoring of Land Surface Subsidence using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Techniques and Ground Truth Data in Arid and SemiArid Regions, The Case of Remah, UAE,” Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 145946, ISSN 00489697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145946
8. Farahat, A., Abuelgasim, A. Effect of cloud seeding on aerosol properties and particulate matter variability in the United Arab Emirates. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-020-03057-5
9. Abuelgasim, A., Farahat, A. Investigations on PM10, PM2.5, and Their Ratio over the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Earth Syst Environ (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-020-00186-2
10. Abduldaem S. Alqasemi, Mohamed E. Hereher, Ayad M. Fadhil Al-Quraishi, Hakim Saibi, Ala Aldahan and Abdelgadir Abuelgasim (2020) Retrieval of monthly maximum and minimum air temperature using MODIS aqua land surface temperature data over the United Arab Emirates, Geocarto International, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2020.1837261 
11. Gebhardt, C., Abuelgasim, A., Fonseca, R. M., MartínTorres, J., & Zorzano, M.P. (2020). Fully interactive and refined resolution simulations of the Martian dust cycle by the MarsWRF model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2019JE006253. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006253
12. Muhagir El Kamali, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Ioannis Papoutsis, Constantinos Loupasakis, Charalampos Kontoes, 2020, “A reasoned bibliography on SAR interferometry applications and outlook on big interferometric data processing,” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Vol 19, 2020, 100358, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100358
13. Bannari, A., Musa, N., Abuelgasim, A., Elbattay, A., 2020, “Sentinel-MSI and Landsat-OLI Data Quality Characterization for High Temporal Frequency Monitoring of Soil Salinity Dynamic in an Arid Landscape”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Volume (13), 2020, pages: 2434 - 2450, https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2995543
14. Abuelgasim, A., and Farahat, A., 2020, “Effect of dust loadings, meteorological conditions, and local emissions on aerosol mixing and loading variability over highly urbanized semiarid countries: United Arab Emirates case study”, Journal of Atmospheric and SolarTerrestrial Physics, Volume 199, March 2019, 105215 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2020.105215. 
15. Farahat, A. and Abuelgasim, A., 2019, Role of atmospheric nutrient pollution in stimulating phytoplankton growth in small area and shallow depth water bodies: Arabian Gulf and the sea of Oman, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 219, 117045 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117045
16. K Omari, A Abuelgasim, K Alhebsi, 2019, Aerosol optical depth retrieval over the city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) using Landsat-8 OLI images, Atmospheric Pollution Research. Volume 10, Issue 4, July 2019, Pages 1075-1083, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2019.01.015.
17. S Solomos, A Abuelgasim, C Spyrou, I Binietoglou, S Nickovic, 2019, Development of a dynamic dust-source map for NMME-DREAM v1.0 model based on MODIS NDVI over the Arabian Peninsula, Geoscientific Model Development, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12979-2019
18. Gebhardt, C., Abuelgasim, A. Scientific innovations from the Mars aerosol optical depth based on satellite data with a temporal resolution of hours. Prog Earth Planet Sci 6, 31 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645019-0276-z
19. Abuelgasim, A. and Rubab Ammad, 2018, “Mapping soil salinity in arid and semi-arid regions using Landsat 8 OLI satellite data”, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and    Environment 13,     415-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2018.12.010