Abstract
 Use of Landsat Imagery, GIS, and DTM Land Planning Track: Environmental Management Author(s): Peter Kundu The development and management of rivers are essential and priorities in the economic development of Kenya. In Eastern Mau, inadequate water supply is a major problem affecting industrial, domestic, and livestock water requirements. The forests, which fall within the headwater catchments for the rivers that form Lake Nakuru drainage basin, are being depleted by illegal logging and poaching and conversion to agriculture. In order to acquire synoptic data with greater spatial and temporal resolutions, the use of computer-based methods has been adopted. Remotely Sensed data integrated with ancillary data have been used to evaluate the impacts of agriculture on river flows in the area over the last 40 years. Land use changes from forest and large-scale farming to subsistence agriculture were evident from results obtained using aerial photographs taken in 1969, the Landsat images of 1989, 2000, 2002, and 2003 and the ground survey of 2003. Peter Kundu Egerton University Agricultural Engineering P.O. Box 536-20107 Njoro Nakuru , Rift Valley 20107 KE Phone: 05162241 E-mail: Kundu2001@yahoo.com |
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