The area of Egypt is 1.01041 million km 2 and the Inhabited area (Valley and Delta) represents 79.29 thousand km2 which means that only 7.85% of the total area is used. The remaining space of the Egypt is desert and it represents more than 90.9% of Egypt. Their special feature and distinctive properties are quite different from the Valley, which requires study of the General characteristics of the Egyptian desert and development possibilities and limitations , because the inhabited from area (the valley and delta) completely saturated and groaning many problems. That's why desert (Eastern Desert - Western Desert - the Sinai Peninsula) ) is the scope of any development process or urban extension as it could play an important role in solving many of the problems at the national and regional level, including potential and untapped resources. But Due to the current situation in Egypt We find that there is a problem in the resettlement of economic activities commensurate with the nature of the sites that are indigenization, which could affect the environment or on the practicing of the activity itself. This leads us to the conclusion that the traditional ways of dealing with this kind of decisions is a poor and cannot be relied upon in case we want to make informed decisions with a positive impact on the current situation in Egypt , This directs us to the modern technology that provide support in decision-making, In this field of study we can turn to the GIS because of its extraordinary ability in dealing with a huge amount of information and spatial data |
