Climate observations are essential for understanding the complexities of the global climate system; indeed virtually all breakthroughs that have been made in understanding climate have come from observations. Observations provide critical benchmarks for testing and further develo...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25958
The Egyptian northern Deltaic lakes including Burullus Lake suffer from pollution of intensive agri culture, domestic and industrial activities. The objective of this research was to evaluate water and sediment quality in Burullus Lake based on certain physical and chemical chara...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23311
This research considers the support provided by remote sensing and GIS methods for the delineation of potential sites susceptible to natural hazards such as earthquakes, flash floods and karst phenomena in the Black Hills area in South Dakota and Wyoming, USA. By an integration o...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24388
Vertisols are one of the most fertile soils in the tropics but crop production is often limited by physical features related to shrink-swell movement under different moisture conditions making management strategies mostly tilted towards soil moisture control. However, most crops...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24906
Terrain analysis is useful in so many areas ranging from military operations to landuse and agricultural planning, urban planning, forestry management, drainage, hydrology and site suitability assessment of agricultural, settlement, industrial and transportation projects. Gombe S...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/22674
Nowadays, Web-based Land Information System is important to learn about the use of Geographic Information Systems and software for our profession. Modern technologies like geo-data processing, earth observation data processing and analysis are needed for Sri Lankan young research...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/20748
Use of enrichment, ecological risk and contamination factors with geo-accumulation indexes were employed to evaluate the Content of Cd, Cu, and Ni in the soils around Ameka mining area, South of Abakaliki, Nigeria. Ecological risk indices and contamination indexes namely, enrichm...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24908
This study aimed to determine the major elemental oxides in the exposed rock types of the study area, classify these rocks on this basis and establish the relationships between the various elemental constituents and hence predict the mode of origin of the rocks. The study area fa...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/19041
Most problems of soil pollution are associated with large amount of heavy metals deposited on it through disposed waste. This study was carried out to assess heavy metals (Fe, Zn, Pb, Cu and Cd) in soil samples around metal scrap dumps at Araromi vicinities of Akure South Local G...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23363
Changes due oil exploration and production have occurred within Cawthorne Channel area from 1986 to 2003. Three satellite image datasets consisting of Landat TM acquired On 19th of December 1986; SPOT 4 of 16th December 1998 and Landsat ETM of 8th January 2003 were used for the s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23766
Aims: North Central Vietnam is an area that may be heavily affected by climate change induced water disasters like flood, drought and salinity. This paper focuses on investigating the impacts of water disasters on, and analyzing community-based adaptation of, affected communities...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23522
Background: High As levels in Cambodia’s groundwater were first reported in a small scale, but country-wide survey in 2001 and since then a number of studies have been undertaken to identify the spatial extent of the problem, release mechanisms and intake pathways. An exposure ri...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23526
Aims: Wat Phnom sub catchment in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is highly susceptible to flash flooding during rain events. The objective of this study is to determine where wastewater and stormwater in the Wat Phnom area are discharged and to determine the hydrological and hydraulic func...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23525
Aims: The objective of this study is twofold: i) explore a simple, empirical relationship based on freely available, remotely sensed data and the water levels recorded at Prek Kdam (one week prior) to predict total inundated area of the Tonle Sap flood plain; and ii) use the rela...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23531
Aims: In Cambodia the frequency and impacts of natural disasters has been increasing. The impacts of droughts and floods are most severe within the agricultural sector which accounts for around 29% of Cambodia’s GDP and 59% of the work force. In this paper we assess the farmers’...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/23523