A faculty member from the Civil Engineering Department participates in a thesis defense committee at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Majid Al-Mukhtar, a faculty member in the Civil Engineering Department, participated by official invitation from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in the defense of a PhD thesis titled “Using Ground Data and Satellite Imagery for Surface Water Management in the Lower Zab River between Iraq and Iran” by student Omid Kakai, a student at the College of Geotechnology, Earth Sciences, and Mining at the university.
The study aimed to determine the optimal locations for water harvesting dams in the Hamikishian region, northeast of the Lower Zab River in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Field data and satellite imagery were utilized and combined through the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) method to select dam locations within a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. A total of ten criteria were used to create water harvesting sites, including topographic location index, geology, slope, rainfall, soil type, stream width, vegetation cover, elevation, distance to faults, and distance to the nearest town/city. The weights for the factors were determined using two statistical methods: Weighted Linear Combination and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP).
The defense committee consisted of:
Prof. Dr. Traugott Scheytt
