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Mario Mhawej

Earth Scientist, American University of Beirut
Verified email at aub.edu.lb
Cited by 1036

Sentinel-1 data for winter wheat phenology monitoring and mapping

…, H Belhouchette, G Faour, S Darwich, M Mhawej - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sentinel-1 data to detect the main wheat
phenological phases was investigated in the Bekaa plain of Lebanon. Accordingly, the temporal …

Regional landsat-based drought monitoring from 1982 to 2014

F Ghaleb, M Mario, AN Sandra - Climate, 2015 - mdpi.com
Drought is a serious natural hazard with far-reaching impacts including soil damages,
economic losses, and threatening the livelihood and health of local residents. The goal of the …

A novel approach for mapping wheat areas using high resolution Sentinel-2 images

A Nasrallah, N Baghdadi, M Mhawej, G Faour… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Global wheat production reached 754.8 million tons in 2017, according to the FAO database.
While wheat is considered as a staple food for many populations across the globe, …

Open-source Google Earth Engine 30-m evapotranspiration rates retrieval: The SEBALIGEE system

M Mhawej, G Faour - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, an open-source Google Earth Engine-based (GEE) system is proposed, surnamed
SEBALIGEE, based on the Surface Energy Balance for Land – Improved (SEBALI) model…

Water features as the main SUHI hindering factor across 50 global cities

M Mhawej, Y Abunnasr, A Al Bitar - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a cloud-based, open-source, user-friendly, highly-customizable, and globally-available
30-m system, named SUHI-GEE. This system can conduct stepwise regressions of …

Daily Ten-ST-GEE: An open access and fully automated 10-m LST downscaling system

M Mhawej, Y Abunnasr - Computers & Geosciences, 2022 - Elsevier
In remote sensing applications, data fusion is a combination of satellite images from different
sources, aimed to improve the spatial and/or temporal resolution of the final output. This …

Dynamic calibration for better SEBALI ET estimations: Validations and recommendations

M Mhawej, G Elias, A Nasrallah, G Faour - Agricultural Water Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The widespread usage of the surface balance energy models coupled with remote sensing
techniques proved their effectiveness in terms of accurately assessing evapotranspiration …

Automated evapotranspiration retrieval model with missing soil-related datasets: The proposal of SEBALI

M Mhawej, A Caiserman, A Nasrallah, A Dawi… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Precision Agriculture (PA) has been booming lately in alignment with the proposal of several
surface energy balance algorithms. The Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (…

Vulnerability assessment of the South-Lebanese coast: A GIS-based approach

Y Ghoussein, M Mhawej, A Jaffal, A Fadel… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The sea-level rise phenomenon affects several socio-economic and ecological aspects
worldwide, particularly in terms of coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion. While the …

Towards a combined Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 for 10-m land surface temperature products: The Google Earth Engine monthly Ten-ST-GEE system

Y Abunnasr, M Mhawej - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Efforts to combine satellite images from different sources are particularly needed in Land
Surface Temperature-based (LST) studies. This research proposes for the first time, to our …