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2022
SITE SUITABILITY ANALYSIS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL USING GIS AND RS: A CASE STUDY OF BLANTYRE CITY, MALAWI
In the face of rising population and urbanization, several countries are striving to build proper waste management systems. A solid waste management system is required for urban solid waste management, and the presence of a sanitary landfill is essential. Finding adequate places for a sanitary …
GIS and Remote Sensing
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2022
THE APPLICATION OF GIS AND REMOTE SENSING IN MAPPING SEISMIC MICRO ZONES RISK IN MALAWI (KARONGA)
Earthquakes have been a stumbling bar to development in Malawi's northern region, especially in Karonga. This is a district that is prone to natural disasters. Despite the government's and non-governmental organizations' efforts to mitigate the impact of earthquakes, none of them have been successful. Seismic …
Environmental Modeling
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Population growth has led to more pressure being faced by our environment especially forest reserves area where they compose much more of our vegetation. Monitoring environment changes has become a necessity as a result of current environment deteriorating due to human activities like deforestation. The …
Geological Remote Sensing
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Farming is one of activity happen in Kasungu district and most crop grown in this area including tobacco, Chitete, Kamwana, Mangazi and Nkhulande area the villages where I was study in order to selecting a suitable area for constructing suitable site for water reservoir. Water …
Petroleum Geosciences
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The building construction industry is well known as a source of negative environmental impacts, which are associated with production and extraction of raw materials. Some of the major impacts caused by the industry are deforestation, degradation of urban landscape, ecosystem destruction, resource depletion, land pollution, …
Spatial Biodiversity Assessment
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Increased Soil loss is a major threat to the agricultural development in Malawi and by extension is also a major hindrance to the overall economic development of the country since the Malawian economy is dependent on agriculture. The problem of increased soil loss is a …
Petroleum Geosciences
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From 1998 to 2018, the population of Malawi have been increasing. Despite of the increase in birth rates, urbanization have played the role since there is a movement of people from rural areas to urban centres due to availability of better social services and job …
Groundwater and Society
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For more than two centuries, industrialization has propelled our world into an advanced and highly technologized civilization that we know today. Every nation across the world has had series of advancement in industrialization that has reshaped the nation’s economic development. For a long time, the …
Climate change adaptation and loss and damage
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Most of the developing countries confront a challenge of lack of access to consistent electricity supply service. Usually, the common affected sites are rural and peri-urban areas since they occur to be far from town and cities. Geographic information system (GIS) is gradually becoming a …
GIS and Remote Sensing
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Impervious surface area (ISA) is a key factor for monitoring urban environment and land development. Automatic mapping of impervious surfaces has attracted growing attention in recent years. Spectral built-up indices are considered promising to map ISA distribution due to their easy, parameter-free implementations. This study …
Geological Remote Sensing
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This research presents an evaluation of two atmospheric correction (AC) methods applied to ASTER image. The aim of this study was to determine the most suitable atmospheric correction method for ASTER satellite images by evaluating different methods of AC. The ASTER images used in this …
Geological Remote Sensing
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People in villages depend on groundwater sources like boreholes and wells. However, due to the cost of conducting water tests most of these boreholes and wells are not tested to determine the quality of water. This study analysed groundwater quality in boreholes and shallows wells …
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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