Index Terms—Coral bleaching, sea surface temperature (SST), remote sensing, climate change, thermal stress, Egypt, Red Sea.
Ahmed El-Adawy is with the Department of Environmental Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology E-JUST, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt (e-mail: ahmed.eladawy@ejust.edu.eg).
Kazuo Nadaoka is with the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (e-mail: nadaoka@mei.titech.ac.jp).
Abdelazim Negm is with Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology E-JUST, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, Egypt (e-mail: negm@ejust.edu.eg).
Oliver C. Saavedra is with the Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (e-mail: saavedra.o.aa@m.titech.ac.jp).
Mahmoud Hanafy is with Suez Canal University, Faculty of Science, Marine Science Department, Egypt (e-mail: hanafy@science.suez.edu.eg).
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Cite: Ahmed Eladawy, Kazuo Nadaoka, Abdelazim Negm, Oliver C. Saavedra, and Mahmoud Hanafy, "Assessment of Long Term Thermal Stress on Egyptian Coral Reefs Based on Remotely Sensed Sea Surface Temperature Data," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 938-946, 2015.