scholarly journals Energy Efficiency of Building Technologies and Climate Change using Geographical Information System (GIS): A Case study of use of soil, water and forest/grass in Migori County, Kenya

Author(s):  
R. Sangori ◽  
G. Krhoda ◽  
I. Nyandega
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rim Sallem ◽  
Mohamed Rouis

This paper presents a method for optimizing the household waste collection system supported by Geographical Information System (GIS) tool for the sector 1of district El Bousten of Sfax commune, Tunisia. The ArcGIS Network Analyst based model is applied for the purpose of improving the collection process effectiveness, namely, the household collection bins’ reallocation along with the vehicles’ tour optimization procedure in terms of distance and time. Results indicated a reduction of 25, 83% in route and 21, 5 % in the time spent of collection along with fuel consumption savings. These findings show that GIS based model tends to exhibit significant improvements as to the collection and transportation system, therefore, to its economical and environmental costs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.20) ◽  
pp. 578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainab Sahib Jawad ◽  
Fatima Asaad Tayeb ◽  
Asaad Tayeb Kareem Jebur

The Trapped sun’s thermal radiation in the earth’s atmosphere is known as the greenhouse effect.  This process is considered very important since it keeps the earth warm and hence possible to live in. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are considered very important contributors to the greenhouse effect. During the last two decades, the level of greenhouse gases has increased, which plays a major role in global warming and climate change. The Middle East is considered among the most affected areas by climate change. In the current study, Geographical Information System (GIS) has been used to create some temperature maps that could show the air temperature distribution and difference between two different periods of time (past and recent) in different stations that cover the Iraqi governorates. A spatial interpolation method has been used. This method considers known values of temperature at a given location (stations in the current study) to estimate a continuous surface map during a specific period of time. The results of this study showed no significant increase in the average air temperature values, however the area of high air temperature values is growing during the cold and hot months of the year.  


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