Sultan Hasan Alsultan
Dr. Sultan Al Sultan, leading an era of open-source Geospatial Technology Software in Saudi Arabia, Tokyo Institute of Technology PhD, a senior researcher at NASA, USGS, and has been a researcher in JAXA, RESTEC-Japan. he graduate from MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and previously from George Washington University, USA. He represented Univeristy Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) for Saudi Arabia Universities. He is Saudi Arabia Parliament Member 2013-2017. Today he is the Founder and CEO of Environmental Remote Sensing Lab (TECRS-Lab).
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This study analyzes multi decadal spatiotemporal land cover change in Dammam, Saudi Arabia (1986–2025) to establish a green infrastructure baseline. An open source data, Landsat and Sentinel-2 data classified using Random Forest in QGIS reveal urban expansion patterns and support greening priority planning using NDVI and NDBI.