Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD): Recent submissions
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Understanding the decline of water storage across the Ramser-Lake Naivasha using satellite-based methods
(Western Australian Centre for Geodesy and The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaInstitute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn University, Bonn, GermanyDepartment of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, KenyaIGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), Nairobi, KenyaGeodetic Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, GermanyHelmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, GermanyDepartment of Cartography Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Geodetic Science and Technology of Geoinformation Post Graduation Program, Recife, PE, Brazil, 2013)It has been postulated that Lake Naivasha, Kenya, has experienced a rapid decrease (and fluctuations) in its spatial extent and level between the years 2002 to 2010. Many factors have been advanced to explain this, with ... -
Civic Engagement and Planning in Ruiru Municipality, Kenya: Community Associations and their Relations with the Municipality
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Protection and Conservation of Animals and Vegetation
(2013)This chapter presents ways in which geoinformatics could be useful in supporting management and conservation efforts of animals and vegetation. Ways in which animals and vegetation impact on the environment, and vice versa, ... -
Land Management
(2013)Land provides the base upon which social, cultural and economic activities are undertaken and as such is of significant importance in environmental monitoring. Social, cultural and economic activities have to be planned ... -
Maps in Environmental Monitoring
(2013)A map is an abstraction of reality that creates a model of the world or a part thereof, effectively projecting the curved surface of the earth onto a plane surface. Unlike images that model reality at an iconic level of ... -
Weather, Climate and Global Warming
(2013)In order to fully appreciate the contribution of geoinformatics in monitoring climate change caused by increase in temperature, a distinction between weather and climate, on one hand, and climate variability and climate ... -
Spatial Analysis
(2013)The most important function of GIS is the analysis of spatial data and their attributes for purposes of decision support. Indeed, spatial analysis is the very crux of GIS. It is the means of adding value to geographic data ... -
Optical Remote Sensing
(2013)There are a large variety of systems for collecting remotely sensed data in operation today. -
Input of GIS Data
(2013)Precisely because of the expensive cost of GIS data capture and the fact that the procedures involved in this are also fairly time consuming, the sources for GIS data should always be carefully analyzed before selection ... -
Environmental Surveying and Surveillance
(2013)In this section, we discuss the quantitative and qualitative data that could be collected using GNSS satellites, and in so doing, attempt to answer the question “what can GNSS satellites deliver that is of use to environmental ... -
Fundamentals of GIS
(2013)Geographic Information System(GIS) is defined as a special type of information system that is used to input, store, retrieve, process, analyze and visualize geospatial data and information in order to support decision ... -
Modernization of GNSS
(2013)Throughout history, position (location) determination has been one of the fundamental tasks undertaken by humans on a daily basis. Each day, one deals with positioning, be it going to work, the market, sport, church, mosque, ... -
Fundamentals of Photogrammetry
(2013)Like in many other disciplines, there is no universally accepted definition of the term photogrammetry. The Manual of Photogrammetry (2003) defines photogrammetry as the art, science, and technology of obtaining reliable ... -
Environmental Impact Assessment
(2013)Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is defined by Munn (1979) as the need to identify and predict the impact on the environment and on man’s health and well-being of legislative proposals, policies, programs, projects, ... -
Disaster Monitoring and Management
(2013)Since time immemorial, natural disasters have continued to plague the history of mankind. They have varied in type, frequency, coverage and severity ranging from earthquakes, landslides, droughts, floods, tornadoes, ... -
Water Resources
(2013)Fresh water is one of the basic necessities without which human beings cannot survive since water is key to the sustainability of all kinds of lifeforms. Water has multiple uses namely; nutritional, domestic, recreational, ... -
Web GIS and Mapping
(2013)The Internet and web-based technology has dramatically influenced the access to and dissemination of information among communities, locally and globally. This is no less true in the domain of geographic information systems ... -
Microwave Remote Sensing
(2013)Persistent cloud cover, especially within the tropics, offers limited clear views of the Earth’s surface from space. This presents a major impediment to the application of optical remote sensing discussed in Chap. 8 in ... -
Satellite Environmental Sensing
(2013)GNSS satellites such as GPS are playing an increasingly crucial role in tracking low earth orbiting (LEO) remote sensing satellites at altitudes below 3000 km with accuracies of better than 10 cm (Yunck et al. 1990). These ... -
GIS Database
(2013)Once digitized and edited GIS data are stored in a spatial database. Evidently, the quality of the decisions made from a GIS will depend on the quality of the data contained in the database. A spatial database is defined ...
