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|a Water Digital Atlas User Guide. |
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|a User Guide: 2015 Water Resources Digital Atlas to the Wami, Ruvu and Coastal River Basins, Tanzania |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Miami, Florida : |b Florida International University, |c 2015. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the users responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Visualizing spatial data such as rainfall, river discharge and the location of water users in the form of maps is essential
for effective water resources management. Maps illustrate spatial patterns not evident in tabular data. Yet maps on
paper are static and at a fixed scale. Geographic Information System (GIS) can help analyze and display data. However, in
developing countries, there are several constraints facing the widespread adoption and continued upgrading of GIS
software with time, such as:
1. ArcGIS, the industry standard in spatial analysis is expensive
2. Cannot be freely installed on any number of computers
3. Open Source GIS has a steep learning curve, and there is a dearth of technical trainers
4. Internet connectivity is very patchy and slow
A Digital Atlas has been developed by GLOWS and Tanzania iWASH over 2013-2014 using the open source atlas
publishing software GeoPublisher. The Atlas contains a wide variety of data relevant to water resources management
that can be used by a person with no GIS knowledge nor any internet connection needed. Most of the data has been
provided by the Wami Ruvu Basin Water Office with additional sources such as MODIS data (NASA/University of
Montana), ClimateWizard, Google Earth Engine, Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics and IUCN. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Added automatically, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Global Water for Sustainability Program (Florida International University). |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI14103146/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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