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Abstract
Environmental Information System for Management of Goreangab Dam, Windhoek, Namibia
Track: Environment Management
Author(s): Kat Simon
This paper presents how the Municipality of Windhoek, Namibia, is using GIS to rehabilitate, monitor, and protect its most important, yet most polluted, water reservoir. The Windhoek Pilot EIS Project includes ArcView maps, a water quality database, resident surveys, aerial photographs, satellite imagery, site photos, and video documentation. The difficult challenges surrounding GIS implementation in a developing country and the management of informal settlement areas are discussed in-depth in this paper. The paper also details how the Municipality is moving from this small pilot area project to a City-wide Environmental Information System.
Kat Simon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
320 Memorial Drive ##317
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Phone: 6172258517
E-mail: katsimon@mit.edu