Agriculture monitoring and managements is a key factor in the food production and food security. Mainly, crop identification and area quantification are most important factors in yield estimation and predictions. In arid lands, water is a limiting factor for the agriculture expan...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37283
Kushkarani river basin (172 Sq.km), a Chottonagpur plateau fringe river basin of Mayurakshi master stream. Most part of the basin is characterized by coarser lateritic soil with greater erodibility and high potentiality of erosion. Seasonal fluctuation of rainfall energized the p...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37296
This study estimated recurrence periods of earthquakes in Zimbabwe using exponential distribution model. The data for this study were extracted from a catalogue, the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) owned by Northern California Earthquake Data Centre UC Berkeley, USA. The...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37190
The suitability of Goro Dong (Lake) water for human consumption has been examined using the Weighted Arithmetic Water Quality Index Method. Water samples were collected from the lake in the month of March 2017 and subjected to standard physicochemical tests. Parameters used for t...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37517
Ten soil samples were collected randomly from Ihiala area at a depth of about 1m using hand auger and shovel for evaluation as a sub-grade material in road construction. These samples were analyzed to determine their chemical and geotechnical properties of pH, natural moisture co...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/34764
The study assesses challenges and opportunities in urban water resource use and management, drawing from a case study material of community water supply systems in Wote Town, Makueni County. Using a Survey Research Design (SRD) both primary and secondary data were collected by us...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/27913
The majority of coastal lagoons, situated in the Ukrainian North-Western Black Sea region, show a long-term tendency of water volume decrease and the increase in water salinity and concentration of nutrients and pollutants due to continuing lack of the conjunction with the sea an...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37015
Structural and tectonic studies of an area, help in the understanding of the magmatism, metallogeny, groundwater, seismicity, geothermal and hydrothermal resources of the region. The Precambrian rocks of Okemesi folds and its environs exhibit multiple deformations, repetitive fol...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/36143
As the development and research work in space is greatly increasing now a days, more and more rockets, satellites, and spacecraft are made to sent in space for the various purposes, which work for proposed years and some of those also may fail to work but they are physically pres...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/36947
Bangladesh is vulnerable to a variety of natural hazards including frequent tropical cyclones and, less commonly, earthquakes and tsunamis. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004 IOT) challenged assumptions about the level of regional hazard. Remarkably, little historical data are a...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/31187
A retrospective analysis of malaria cases was investigated at the block level in Murshidabad district between 2009 and 2016 to apprehend the trend and dynamics of transmission. A personal geodatabase was prepared in ArcGIS environment. The local spatial auto-correlation was inves...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/37316
Aims: The study set to determine the extent to which climate variability is a problem in semi-arid Tharaka sub-county, Kenya. Study Design: The study utilized a descriptive research. Specifically, focus group discussions (FGD) and interviews with key informants were used to gene...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/35259
Uncontrolled urbanization is one of the major geo-environmental challenges facing the developing world today towards attainment of intelligent cities. Various studies have mainly concentrated on impact of uncontrolled urbanization on urban heat island, air quality and housing wit...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/36362
Speed bumps (also called speed breakers, or a sleeping policeman) are the common name for a family of traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve pedestrian’s safety. However, Speed bumps often meet resistance from reside...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/36486
It has been observed that daily interaction of millions of Nigerian population estimated at 186.5 million by Population Reference Bureau (PRB) with their immediate environment have serious implications on the landscape, environmental aesthetics and atmospheric well-being. Urban d...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2017/34329