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Remote Sensing, Conflicts, Refugees, & Agriculture
– Baliki, G., Weiffen, D., Al Daccache, M., Kayaoglu, A., Sujud, L., Jaafar, H., … & Brück, T. (2023). Seeds for recovery: The long-term impacts of a complex agricultural intervention on welfare, behaviour and stability in Syria (SEEDS)| CEDIL research project paper 7.
– Kassem, I. I., Osman, M., Jaafar, H., & El Omari, K. (2022). Refugee settlements, COVID-19, pollution, and the unfolding cholera outbreak in Lebanon. Journal of Travel Medicine.
– Jaafar, H., Ahmad, F., Holtmeier, L., & King-Okumu, C. (2020). Refugees, water balance, and water stress: Lessons learned from Lebanon. Ambio, 1-15.
– Jaafar, H.H. Remote Sensing and GIS-based Technologies for Assessing the Impact of Conflict on Agricultural Production. Crisis and Conflicts in Agriculture, CABI Publishers, Wallingford, UK, 2018.
– Jaafar, H., et al. (2016). “Balancing water stress, human crises, and innovation under a changing dryland climate.” IIED Reflect and act publication.
– Jaafar, H. and King-Okumu, C. (2016). “Dryland resilience-building under a difficult and changing climate – the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.” Workshop Report.
– Jaafar, H. and King-Okumu, Haj-Hassan, M. &, Abdalla, C. &, El-Korek, N.&, Ahmad, F. (2016). Water resources within the Orontes and Litani Basins: a balance, demand, and supply analysis amid the Syrian refugee crisis. IIED, London.
– Jaafar, H. H., & Woertz, E. (2016). Agriculture as a funding source of ISIS: A GIS and remote sensing analysis. Food Policy, 64, 14-25.
– King, C, Jaafar, H., and Archer, D. (2016). “Balancing water stress and human crises in the Bekaa Valley.” IIED Reflect and act publication. Project: Dryland resilience-building under a difficult and changing climate – the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
– King-Okumu, C, Jaafar H, and Archer D (2016).”Balancing water stress and human crises under a changing climate: Integrating international policy agendas in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon“, IIED. London.
– Jaafar, H. H., Zurayk, R., King, C., Ahmad, F., & Al-Outa, R. (2015). Impact of the Syrian conflict on irrigated agriculture in the Orontes Basin. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 31(3), 436-449.
Smart Irrigation
– UNESCWA (2022). Best practices, innovations and technologies to inform climate action for resilient and sustainable agriculture systems. Beirut, Lebanon.
– Jaafar, H. (2023). Closure to “Soil Moisture or ET-Based Smart Irrigation Scheduling: A Comparison for Sweet Corn with Sap Flow Measurements” by Gadson Asiimwe, Hadi Jaafar, Mustapha Haidar, and Roya Mourad. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 149(2), 07022028.
– Baghdadi, N., Bazzi, H., Najem, S., Jaafar, H., Le Page, M., Zribi, M., … & Spiliotopoulos, M. (2023, July). Detecting Irrigation Events over Semi-Arid and Temperate Climatic Areas Using Sentinel-1 Data: Case of Several Summer Crops. In IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 2839-2842). IEEE.
– Jaafar, H., Mourad, R., Hazimeh, R., & Sujud, L. (2022). AgSAT: A Smart Irrigation Application for Field-Scale Daily Crop ET and Water Requirements Using Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing, 14(20), 5090.
– Asiimwe, G., Jaafar, H., Haidar, M., & Mourad, R. (2022). Soil Moisture or ET-Based Smart Irrigation Scheduling: A Comparison for Sweet Corn with Sap Flow Measurements. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 148(6), 04022017.
– Jaafar, H., & Kharroubi, S. A. (2021). Views, practices and knowledge of farmers regarding smart irrigation apps: A national cross-sectional study in Lebanon. Agricultural Water Management, 248, 106759.
– Jaafar, H. and Mourad, R. (2021). GYMEE: A Global Field-Scale Crop Yield and ET Mapper in Google Earth Engine Based on Landsat, Weather, and Soil Data. Remote Sensing, 13(4), 773.
– Benbuk, A.A., et al. (2019). “A Nano-Watt Dual-Mode Address Detector for a Wi-Fi Enabled RF Wake-up Receiver“, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
– Jaafar, H. H., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Determining Reference Evapotranspiration in Greenhouses from External Climate. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 145(9).
– Jaafar, H. H., & Ahmad, F. (2018). Evaluating atmometer performance for estimating reference evapotranspiration in ventilated and unventilated greenhouses. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 144(7), 04018014.
– El‐Asmar, J., Jaafar, H., Bashour, I., Farran, M. T., & Saoud, I. P. (2017). Hydrogel banding improves plant growth, survival, and water use efficiency in two calcareous soils. CLEAN–Soil, Air, Water, 45(7), 1700251.
– Jaafar, H., Khraizat, Z., Bashour, I., & Haidar, M. (2017). Determining water requirements of biblical hyssop using an ET-based drip irrigation system. Agricultural Water Management, 180, 107-117.
– Jaafar, H.H., Khraizat, Z. &, Bashour, I., & Haidar, M. (2015). Water productivity of Origanum Syriacum under different irrigation and nitrogen treatments using an automated irrigation system. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. Water Resources Management VIII, 196, 211. Edited by C.A. Brebbia. Wessex Institute of Technology, UK. View chapter
Remote Sensing, Water Stress, Agriculture, & Climate Change
– Hazimeh, R. and Jaafar, H. (2024). Impact of ET and biomass model choices on economic irrigation water productivity in water-scarce basins. Agricultural Water Management, 292, 108651.
– Bachour, R., Yanni, S., Daher, B., Jaafar, H., Ajour, S. & Mohtar, R. (2024). Water–energy–food–health nexus in Lebanon – Case study. SOLAW21 Technical background report. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4641en
– MoE/UNDP/GEF (2022). Lebanon’s Fourth National Communication to the UNFCCC. Beirut, Lebanon.
– Jaafar, H., Sujud, L., & Woertz, E. (2022). Scorched earth tactics of the “Islamic State” after its loss of territory: intentional burning of farmland in Iraq and Syria. Regional Environmental Change, 22(4), 1-15.
– Jaafar, H., Mourad, R., & Schull, M. (2022). A global 30-m ET model (HSEB) using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2, MODIS and VIIRS: Comparison to ECOSTRESS ET and LST. Remote Sensing of Environment, 274, 112995.
– Sujud, L., Jaafar, H., Hassan, M. A. H., & Zurayk, R. (2021). Cannabis detection from optical and RADAR data fusion: A comparative analysis of the SMILE machine learning algorithms in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 24, 100639.
– Jaafar, H.H. and Ahmad, F.A. (2020). Time series trends of Landsat-based ET using automated calibration in METRIC and SEBAL: The Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Remote Sensing of Environment, 238, 111034.
– Mourad, R., Jaafar, H., Anderson, M., & Gao, F. (2020). Assessment of Leaf Area Index Models Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Surface Reflectance Data over a Semi-Arid Irrigated Landscape. Remote Sensing, 12(19), 3121.
– Abdallah, C., & Jaafar, H. (2019). Data set on current and future crop suitability under the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 emission scenario for the major crops in the Levant, Tigris-Euphrates, and Nile Basins. Data in brief, 22, 992-997.
– Anderson, M., et al. 2019. Characterizing Field-scale Water Use, Phenology and Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes Using Multi-sensor Data Fusion: Annual Project Progress Report (80NSSC18K0483)
– King-Okumu, C., Jaafar, H., Aboukheira, A. A. S., Benzaied, M., Obando, J., & Hannachi, A. (2019). Tracing the trade-offs at the energy-water-environment nexus in drought-prone urbanising regions. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 12(20), 639.
– Abdallah, C. and Jaafar, H. (2018). “Crop Suitability Analysis under Climate Change Scenario RCP8.5 for the Near East Countries”
– Jaafar, H. H., & Ahmad, F. A. (2015). Crop yield prediction from remotely sensed vegetation indices and primary productivity in arid and semi-arid lands. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(18), 4570-4589.
– Jaafar, H.H. and Ahmad, F.A. (2015). Relationships between primary production and crop yields in semi-arid and arid irrigated agro-ecosystems, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences 40 (7w3): 27-30. 2015 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment; Berlin; Germany; 11 May 2015 through 15 May 2015
– King, C., & Jaafar, H. (2015). Rapid assessment of the water–energy–food–climate nexus in six selected basins of North Africa and West Asia undergoing transitions and scarcity threats. International journal of water resources development, 31(3), 343-359.
Water Resources & Hydrology
– Sujud, L. H., & Jaafar, H. H. (2022). A global dynamic runoff application and dataset based on the assimilation of GPM, SMAP, and GCN250 curve number datasets. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-11.
– Chrysafi, A., Virkki, V., Jalava, M., Sandström, V., Piipponen, J., Porkka, M., … & Kummu, M. (2022). Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation. Nature Sustainability, 1-13.
– Darwish, T., Shaban A., Masih, I., Jaafar, H., Jomaa, I., & Simaika, J.P. (2021). Sustaining the ecological functions of the Litani River Basin, Lebanon. International Journal of River Basin Management.
– Jaafar, H., Mourad, R., and Daghir, N. (2019). Dataset used for assessing animal and poultry production water footprint in selected countries of the MENA region, Data in Brief, 27, 104621.
– Jaafar, H. H., Ahmad, F. A., & El Beyrouthy, N. (2019). GCN250, new global gridded curve numbers for hydrologic modeling and design. Scientific data, 6(1), 1-9.
– Mourad, R., Jaafar, H.H., and Daghir, N. (2019). New estimates of water footprint for animal products in fifteen countries of the Middle East and North Africa (2010-2016), Water Resources and Industry, 22, 100113.
– Jaafar, H. H., Al-Awar, F., & Ahmad, F. (2016). Effect of inflow class selection on multi-objective reservoir operation using stochastic dynamic programming. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 41(12), 4911-4926.
– Jaafar, H. H. (2015). Prioritization of Small and Medium Domestic Dams in Dry Lands. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 141(1), 04014045.
– King, C., & Jaafar, H. (2015). Rapid assessment of the water–energy–food–climate nexus in six selected basins of North Africa and West Asia undergoing transitions and scarcity threats. International journal of water resources development, 31(3), 343-359.
– Jaafar, H. H. (2014). Feasibility of groundwater recharge dam projects in arid environments. Journal of Hydrology, 512, 16-26.
– Jaafar, H. H. (2014). Maximizing hydropower production from reservoirs: The case study of markaba. Lebanese Science Journal, 15(2), 81-95.
– Jaafar, H. H., & Merkley, G. P. (2010). High-resolution method for modeling hydraulic regime changes at canal gate structures. Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering, 136(12), 795-808.
Water Quality
– Kassem, I. I., & Jaafar, H. (2020). The potential impact of water quality on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. Water International, 45(5), 423-429.
– Sourenian, T., Mann, D., Li, S., Deng, X., Jaafar, H., & Kassem, I. I. (2020). Dissemination of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli harboring the mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1.1 on transmissible plasmids in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of global antimicrobial resistance, 22, 84-86.
– Hmede, Z., Sulaiman, A. A. A., Jaafar, H., & Kassem, I. I. (2019). Emergence of plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from irrigation water in Lebanon. International journal of antimicrobial agents, 54(1), 102-104.
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