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Persistent identifier:: 856489328

Author:: Mussio, Luigi

Title:: International cooperation and technology transfer

Sub title:: Parma, Italy, February 15 - 19, 1999, Bandung, Indonesia, April 13 - 14, 1999, Cotonou, Benin, December 6 - 10, 1999 ; proceedings of the workshops

Scope:: XXX, 398 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1999

Place of publication:: London

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856489328

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: THE APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. MLENGE FANUEL MGENDI.

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International cooperation and technology transfer
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FOREWORD.
Table of Contents.
Compte-rendu of the WG VI/3. Mariano Cunietti Memorial Meeting in Parma. Mojca Kosmatin Fras, WG VI/3 Co - chairperson.
Compte - Rendu of the ISPRS WG VI/3. High Level Tutorial in Bandung. Fahmi Amhar, Tutorial Chairperson.
Compte-rendu of the Wg VI/3. Luigi Solaini 10th Anniversary. Memorial Meeting in Cotonou. Luigi Mussio, WG VI/3 Chairperson.
Opening.
Closure.
Welcome addresses.
Opening.
Closure.
PADUA, BAHIA BLANCA, PERUGIA, PARMA, BANDUNG AND COTONOU, MEETING - LIST OF PARTICIPANTS.
ISPRS WG VI/3 - LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS.
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) APPLIED TO ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATIONS: SOME EXAMPLES AT UNIVERSITY OF PADUA (ITALY). V. Achilli, F. Barison, A. Vettore.
SURVEYING METHODOLOGIES IN THE PHLEGREAN VOLCANIC DISTRICT (NAPLES - ITALY). Achilli V., Borgstrom S., Capone M., Del Gaudio C., De Martino P., Klees R., Ricciardi G. P., Ricco C., Sepe V., Usai S., Vettore A.
Integration of GPS and Conventional Surveying For Positioning of The Mobile Phone Antennae in A Local System. Al-Bayari O., Barbarella M., Fazio C..
The Spacewise Approach to the Data Treatment for the SAGE Mission Project. A. Albertella, F. Migliaccio, F. Sansó.
DATA AND METADATA A NEW CONCEPT IN ARCHIVING ARCHITECTURAL DATA. Elena ALBERY, Fulvio RINAUDO.
NOTES ABOUT TOPOGRAPHIC AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEYING FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE DOME BEARING VERTICAL WALLS IN S. MARIA DEL FIORE CATHEDRAL OF FLORENCE. P. Aminti, I. Chiaverini, D. Ostuni.
NEW SURVEY OF MORIMONDO ABBEY. Bruno Astori, Luca Rinaldi, Grazia Tucci.
SARNO (ITALY) LANDSLIDES: DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES OF DATA ACQUISITION. M. Barbarella, M. Fiani.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND LASER RANGE CAMERA FOR PHYSIC MODEL GEOMETRY DETERMINATION. M. Barbarella, A. Vettore.
SAMPLING AND VARIANCE ANALYSIS IN REGGIO CALABRIA. Vincenzo Barrile and Rossella Nocera.
GEOID ESTIMATION THROUGH GPS OBSERVATIONS. R. Barzaghi, A. Borghi.
DATA PROCESSING VERSUS GEOMATICS. T. Bellone, L. Mussio, C. Nardinocchi.
PERTINENCE DE L'OFFRE DE FORMATION DU GDTA A' L'INTERNATIONAL. Jean-Luc BESSIS.
THE ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAMMETRICAL EXPERIENCES IN GREECE AND MIDDLE ASIA. Giorgio Bezoari.
PROCEDURES OPTIMISATION IN THE QUALITY SYSTEM. G. Bezoari, F. Guzzetti.
CARTOGRAPHY FOR TOWN PLANNING. Giorgio Bezoari, Attilio Selvini.
INDEXING TREE METHODS AND SPATIAL ORDERING FOR MAPS AND GEOGRAPHIC DATA: AN OVERVIEW AND APPLICATION TO THE GEODETIC GIS PROJECT. L. Biagi, M. A. Brovelli, M. Negretti and C. Saldarini.
GIS/WEB DESIGN FOR INTERNET/INTRANET DATA SHARING. Piero BOCCARDO, Giuliano COMOGLIO, Nadia CORGIAT LOIA.
SURFACE SPATIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: DIGITAL AND ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES. Raffaella BOLOGNA, Maurizio MINCHILLI.
VERY LARGE SCALE MAPPING OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN CERVETERI (ITALY): DATA COLLECTION FROM DIGITAL AUTOMATIC D.T.M., ORTHOPROJECTION AND ANALYTICAL STEREOPLOTTING. Raffaella BOLOGNA, Maurizio MINCHILLI.
DES COMPOSANTS LOGICIELS GEOGRAPHIQUES POUR ELARGIR ET DEMOCRATISER L'ACCES A LA TECHNOLOGIE ETA L’INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE. SPATIAL SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR WIDENING AND DEMOCRATIZING ACCESS TO GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Patrice BOURSIER, Michel EBOUEYA, Arunas STOCKUS, Alain BOUJU, Frédéric BERTRAND.
VALIDATION OF AN ANCIENT PERSPECTIVE IN LECCO (ITALY). PIETRO BROGLIA, EVA SAVINA MALINVERNI, LUIGI MUSSIO.
THE USE OF SPATIAL-ORIENTED DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (DBMS) FOR ITALGEO GEOID MANAGEMENT BY GIS. M. A. Brovelli, F. Migliaccio and V. Tornatore.
COMPARISON BETWEEN PHOTOGRAMMETRICAL SURVEYS OF THE ST.STEFANO CHURCH'S CLOISTER IN BOLOGNA AND METRICS EVALUATIONS OF THE OPERATIONS OF RESTORATION. A. Capra, S. Gandolfi, G. Lombardi, A. Zanutta.
EXPERIMENTAL TESTS IN DIGITAL IMAGES PLOTTING. M. Caprioli, P. De Fazio.
GVM - GAC PROCESSING CHAIN : A REMOTE SENSING TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AT CONTINENTAL LEVEL. C. Carmona-Moreno, M. Turchini, M. F. Cruz Martinez, J. Baron, J. Lopez Raya José, A. Moreno Ruiz.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER GAIA: global astrometry from space at 10 [...] level. D. Cardio, B. Bucciarelli, M. Gai, M. G. Lattanzi and S. Cesare.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A LEVELLING NETWORK FOR THE MONITORING OF POSSIBLE VERTICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE AREA OF PISA - SAN GIULIANO TERME PONTASSERCHIO-MIGLIARINO PISANO (ITALY). G. Caroti, E. Mengali, A. Rossi, C. Scalese.
ESTIMATING MEASUREMENT PRECISION BY MEANS OF MEASUREMENT DIFFERENCES. V. Casella.
AUTOMATIC FOREST AREA RECOGNITION USING GIS IMAGE ANALYSIS CAPABILITY. Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli.
NEW APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF SNOWPACK ESTENSION VIA REMOTE SENSING. Alessandra Colombo, Giovanmaria Leoni.
CULTURAL HERITAGE WEB SITES: THE SUPPORT OF GEOMATICS. Luigi Colombo.
A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING 3D SHAPES MOTION BY A FREQUENCY DOMAIN TECHNIQUE. G. M. Cortelazzo, A. Guamieri, A. Vettore.
LA FORMATION AU C.R.T.O. A. Coulibaly.
A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE VARIANCE-COVARIANCE ESTIMATION OF GPS BASELINE VECTORS. N. Crocetto, M. Gatti, C. Materazzo, L. Toscano.
INTERFEROMETRIC SAR CALIBRATION. M. Crosetto, B. Crippa.
OPTIMISATION DES DATES D'ACQUISITION DES IMAGES TELEDECTION EN ZONE SOUDANO-GUINEENNE POUR UN SUIVI DES ECOSYSTEMES. Cheick Hamala DIAKITE.
FIELD TESTS ON DGPS USING OMNISTAR CORRECTION. D. Dominici, M. L. Pecetti, F. Radicioni, A. Stoppini.
CONTROL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CALIBRATION OF TERRESTRIAL NON-METRIC CAMERAS. Gabriele Fangi.
EXPERIENCES OF VIRTUAL REALITY. G. Fangi, G. Gagliardini.
THE GRID METHOD, A SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE LENSE RADIAL DISTORTION. G. Fangi, Carla Nardinocchi.
DEM'S COMPARISON FOR THE EVALUATION OF LANDSLIDE VOLUME. M. Fiani, S. Troisi.
AUTOMATIC DEM GENERATION IN QUARRIES. Gianfranco FORLANI, Livio PINTO.
STATIC CONTROL OF PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE IN PADUA. Alberto Giussani, Giorgio Vassena.
Conditions préalables au fonctionnement efficace et durable d'un SIG à base de télédétection. Claus-Peter Gross.
PROCEDURES OF CORRECTION OF THE GEOMETRY DISTORSIONS FOR DIGITAL IMAGES. A. Guarnieri, A. Vettore.
GEOPLANTRANSF: A SOFTWARE FOR THE GEOREFERENCING OF DIGITAL IMAGES BY USING PLANE TRASFORMATIONS. Francesco Guerra, Caterina Balletti, Davide Miniutti.
LA DECADENCE EN PRODUCTION CARTOGRAPHIQUE EN AFRIQUE: CAUSES ET THERAPIES DE REDEMARRAGE. A. L. Gueye, B. F. Agbo, P. M. Kibora.
GEOMATICS EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: THE CURRENT DRIVES. A. L. Gueye, O. Aguda.
DE LA TOPOGRAPHIE CONVENTIONNELLE VERS LA GEOMATIQUE: UNE EVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIQUE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT TECHNIQUE DANS LE SYSTEME EDUCATIF CAMEROUNAIS. HAPPI MANGOUA FREDERIC.
INTERNET-ATLAS OF NATURAL AND AGRONOMIC RESOURCES IN NIGER AND BENIN - A TOOL FOR PRESENTATION AND EXCHANGE OF SPATIAL DATA - . L. Herrmann, K. Vennemann, K. Stahr.
Mapping from Space. Gottfried Konecny.
CONTEMPORARY METRICAL DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE. Mojca Kosmatin Fras.
Acquisition of Topographic Data by Laser Scanning and Digital Photogrammetry. Karl Kraus.
The GeoMed Project: GIS and Spatial/Temporal Statistics in Public Health. Andy Long, Mark Wilson, Geoff Jacquez, Leah Estberg.
GPS and GLONASS in Italy. Giorgio Manzoni.
GEOMATICS EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN BOTSWANA. L. Maphale, M. B. Manisa, B. Nkwae, C. Ezigbalike.
THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF MEASUREMENT AS EMPIRICAL AND LINGUISTIC OPERATION. Luca Mari.
UNCERTAINTY IN MEASUREMENT: A SURVEY. Luca Mari.
A RECTIFICATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES OBTAINED FROM AN ANALOGICAL VIDEORECORDING. Patrizia Midulla.
GENE FUCTIONAL MAPPING. Luciano Milanesi, Raffaella Rizzi.
THE APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES. MLENGE FANUEL MGENDI.
GIS: TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN THE COURSE AT DIIAR POLITECNICO OF MILAN. Carlo MONTI, Raffaella BRUMANA, Luigi FREGONESE.
GIS TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT SURVEY DATA AND MANAGEMENT OF DIFFERENT QUARRY TYPOLOGIES. Carlo MONTI, Raffaella BRUMANA, Luigi FREGONESE, Giorgio Vassena.
LA FORMATION ET LA RECHERCHE AU CENTRE NATIONAL DES TECHNIQUES SPATIALES. A. OUSSEDIK, M. A. TRACHE.
GEOID BEHAVIOUR IN THE BAHIA BLANCA AREA. Raúl Perdomo y Daniel Del Cogliano, Nilda Di Croché, Esteban Napal, Beatriz Aldalur, Ana María De Aduriz, Pablo Napal, Nora Plana, Irene Pintos, Miguel Angel Martínez, Santiago Rosso.
GEOID MODELLING IN THE SOUTHERN REGION OF THE BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE. Raúl Perdomo, Daniel Del Cogliano, Nilda Di Croche, Esteban Napal, Beatriz Aldalur, Pablo Napal, Irene Pintos.
SATELLITAL IMAGING, INFORMATION SUPPORT OF A PROVINCIAL CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECT. E. QÜESTA, R. YANICELLI, V. FARES, L. LUNA, E. GOLDAR, D. SANDEZ, C. ISORNI, W. COSTA, E. TONELLI.
FORMATION ET PROJETS EN GEOMATIQUE MIS EN PLACE PAR L'ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DE L'INFORMATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE (ADIE) EN AFRIQUE CENTRALE. Ralph Ridder, Brice Montfraix, Stéphane Lombardo.
CONSTRUCTION OF BASIC DIGITAL MAP FOR CITY GIS BY STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRIC APPROACH. B. Ruzgiene.
SAGE: AN ITALIAN PROJECT OF SATELLITE ACCELEROMETRY. F. Sanso, A. Albertella, G. Bianco, A. Della Torre, M. Fermi, V. lafolla, A. Lenti, F. Migliaccio, A. Milani, A. Rossi.
THE TEACHING OF REMOTE SENSING IN SOUTH AMERICA. Tania Maria Sausen.
CROP GROWTH MODELLING IN MALI BASED ON ERS SCATTEROMETER INFORMATION. Pierre C. Sibiry Traoré, Mamadou D. Doumbia, Salifou Sissoko, Abderamane Yoroté, Wolfgang Wagner, Klaus Scipal, Anne Gobin, Paul Campling, Erik Nobbe, Rob Beck.
TER LOW COST SMALL SATELLITES FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Martin Sweeting, Wei Sun.
MAPPING OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION BY REMOTE SENSING AT THE ACOCULCO CALDERA, PUEBLA, MEXICO. VICENTE TORRES RODRÍGUEZ & GABRIEL ORIGEL GUTIÉRREZ.
ISSUES AND APPROACHES IN MAPPING THE IMPACTS OF MINING ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN AFRICA (WITH TEST CASE FROM KITWE MINE, ZAMBIA). Tsehaie Woldai, Daniel Limptlaw.
POTENTIAL FOR COMPUTER ASSISTED DISTANCE LEARNING IN ZAMBIA: WHAT ARE THE CONSTRAINTS AND THE WAY FORWARD. Paul Zambezi.
Appendix: Authors and Co-authors Index.
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THE APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
MLENGE FANUEL MGENDI*
University College of Lands and Architectural Studies UCLAS; P.o. Box 35176, Dares Salaam, Tanzania.
Email: mlenge@usa.net
KEYWORDS: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Environment, Environmental
Information Systems (EIS), Africa, Tanzania.
SUMMARY
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) involves collection of data used to predict the potential impacts of proposed
activities. The environmental problems vary both in space and in time, hence cannot be tackled without consideration of the
spatial and temporal contexts. The capacity to map, monitor and model the spatial component of the environmental problems
offered by the Geographic information Systems (GIS) can successfully be used in conducting the EIA. This paper discusses
the challenges and opportunities of the use of GIS in EIA in Africa, zooming in on Tanzania.
INTRODUCTION
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) can generally be
defined as a formal study process used to determine the
environmental consequences of a proposed development
project. (6) . The Geographic Information System Systems
(GIS) offer a special environment to deal with the spatial
properties of a project. (8) GIS can be applied in all EIA
stages: from the generation, storage and display of the
thematic information relative to the vulnerability of the
affected resources, to impact prediction and quantification,
evaluation and finally, presentation. (5)
There have been initiatives of linking GIS to Regional ElAs
in different locations such as industrial ElAs in India,
Transportation ElAs in Malaysia and Water Resources and
Thermal Power ElAs in Thailand. Several applications of
GIS integration to EIA are also reported in the UK. (7) . GIS is
found to be a very effective tool for conducting EIA studies
and it can be used for various environmental applications. (2)
The adoption, adaptation and applications of GIS together
with Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Positioning
Systems (GPS) in other continents have not only shown that
they provide better and timely resource and environmental
information, their combined analytical and integrative power
has also been found to provide the greatest opportunity to
stimulate and understand the spatial and temporal dynamics
of the real world in a comprehensive manner. (10)
APPLICATION OF GIS IN EIA
GIS have emerged as very powerful technologies because
they allow integration of data and methods in ways that
support traditional forms of geographical analysis, such as
map overlay analysis as well as new types of analysis and
modelling that are beyond the capability of manual methods
A study on the role of GIS in improving environmental
assessment effectiveness revealed that GIS was used for a
wider range of EIA applications as anticipated by the
researchers (Joao & Fonseca (1997), in Looijen (1997)).
In order to determine how EIA practitioners use GIS, a
questionnaire was sent to 98 environmental consultants in
the United Kingdom and Portugal. In the questionnaire each
practitioner was asked to fill what type of GIS operation was
used for which particular EIA stage. The EIA stages
included: screening and scoping, description of the project,
description of baselin'e conditions, impact identification,
prediction of impact magnitude, assessment of impact
magnitude, impact mitigation and control, public consultation
and participation, and monitoring and auditing.
Preliminary results of that study - based on 36 recipients -
showed the use GIS in different EIA stages:
• Screening and scoping: data gathering, spatial
modelling, impact assessment and calculation of impact
magnitude.
• Project description: geographical context of the project.
• Baseline conditions description: documentation of
environmental aspects and attributes, including
biophysical inventories.
• Impact Identification: overlay analysis, e.g. the
distribution of pollutants with resource maps or the
integration of air quality modelling and habitat suitability
analysis.
• Impact magnitude prediction: quantitative assessment
of the percentage of a resource (conservation area)
affected by a pollution or the creation of impact
magnitude maps derived form the integration of the
result of risk and air quality modelling with other data
layers, e.g. soil susceptibility to acidification.
• Impact significance: spatial distribution of the impact
and the variation between the different project
alternatives, including the zero alternative.
• Mitigation & control: model and map distribution of
pollutants. The result can be used to concentrate
Currently on study leave at International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC).
Box ¡77, Post bus 6, ~500AA Enschede. The Netherlands Email: mgendi@ilc.nl

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