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It should be clear that cities and villages in other Emirates have 
also undergone considerable development and although may 
not be of the same rate as Abu Dhabi & Dubai, but still all 
Emirates have equal basic services of education, health, 
electricity...etc. 
5. CONCLUSIONS 
5.1 Images of different kinds stands as a historical record of 
facts and changes, things, which help current and future 
generations to have an honest, look at development rates. UAE 
proved to be an excellent case study with rapid development in 
the past 30 years. 
5.2. The wise policy of H. H. Sheikh Zayed Ben Sultan Al 
Nahyan, the UAE president, and other UAE Emirates rulers 
combined with proper utilization of the oil money was behind 
this great achievement; a move from a poor non-developed to a 
highly civilized society was a king of miracle. 
5.3 IKONOS imagery were superior in delineation and 
identification of urban development classes, whereas Landsat 
MSS image was poor and only shown major roads and building 
clusters, with fair estimates from Landsat TM images. 
5.4 Availability of images is a crucial factor in all studies 
dealing with historical development, especially in the past 
about 50 years. In case of UAE, having a national Ground 
Receiving Station, parallel with good bilateral relations with the 
world community, facilitates the acquisition, processing and 
analysis of images. 
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6. REFERENCES 
6.1 References from books 
Alsweidi, E. B., 2004. The school as a total change center; an 
Arabic report, personal communications. 
Codari, R. 1990. The Seven Sheikhdoms , Stacy International, 
London. 
National Atlas of United Arab Emirates, 1993. The United 
Arab Emirates University. GEOprojects ltd. U. K. 
UAE Yearbook 2003. UAE Ministry of Information & Culture. 
6.2 Useful Websites 
www. uae.interact.com 
WWW. uae. gov.ae/mop 
www.uae.gov.ae/intro 
www.uae.gov.ae/maf 
  
  
7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
Sincere thanks to H.H. Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al 
Nahyan, Deputy Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi & Chief of Staff 
of UAE Armed Forces, for the patronage of keeping the UAE 
Armed Forces up to date with high technology, represented 
here by initiating the establishment of the National ground 
station. Thanks go to Brigadier Khalid Abu Alainain, 
Commander of UAE Air Force & Air Defense for his 
continuous support and encouragement. 
The assistance provided by the UGS staff is appreciated. 
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