A Geographic Information System as Support to the Healthcare Services of Nomadic Community, the Filtu Woreda Case Study

Cristofori, Elena Isotta; Facello, Anna; Demarchi, Alessandro; Camaro, Walther; Fascendini, Micol; Villanucci, Alessia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49520-0_6

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“…In particular, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offer an essential environment for the effective collection, management, representation and multidisciplinary analysis of miscellaneous geographic data (Tomaszewski 2014). The integration and visualization of various data derived from different sources into one system, permits to provide immediately understandable cartographic products that can address a variety of issues such as potential impacts due to hydro-meteorological phenomena on land use, health care facilities, transportation infrastructures or households (Ferrandino 2014;Duncan et al 2014;Cristofori et al 2016b). In addition, Remote Sensing (RS), providing timely and reliable information about the Earth's surface and atmosphere, is a primary method for observing weather and climate dynamics (Cristofori et al 2015), while technical and non-technical users may accurately define the position of relevant environmental and geographic features through Global Positioning System (GPS) tools and applications.…”

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Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Demarchi¹,

Cristofori²,

Facello³

2017

Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

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Since the last century, an unprecedented settlement expansion, mainly generated by an extraordinary world population growth, has made urban communities always more exposed to disasters. Casualties and economic impacts due to hydro-meteorological hazards are dramatically increasing, especially in developing countries. Although the scientific community is currently able to provide innovative technologies to accurately forecast severe weather events, scientific products are often not easily comprehensible for local stakeholders and more generally for decision makers. On the other hand the integration of different layers, such as hazard, exposed assets or vulnerability through GIS, facilitates the risk assessment and the comprehension of risk analysis. This work presents a methodology to enhance urban resilience through the integration into a GIS of satellite-derived precipitation data and geospatial reference datasets. Through timely and meaningful hydro-meteorological risk information, this methodology enables local government personnel and decision makers to quickly respond and monitor natural phenomena that could impact on the local community. This methodology is applied to the January 2015 Malawi Flood case study and result will be discussed along with further recommended developments.

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Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Demarchi¹,

Cristofori²,

Facello³

2017

Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

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“…In recent decades, the development of geospatial technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) have provided valuable advantages in environmental assessment and monitoring (Anselin 2001, Cristofori, Facello et al 2017. Their capability of incorporating spatial data from a variety of sources with different formats and structures has been a powerful tool in spatial analysis (Payn, Hill et al 1999).…”

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A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé & Príncipe

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Bento²,

Mendes³

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The amount of biological data available in online repositories is increasing at an exponential rate. However, data on marine invertebrate biodiversity resources from Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe are still sparse and scattered. Online repositories are useful instruments for biodiversity research, as they provide a fast access to data from different sources. The use of interactive platforms comprising web mapping are becoming more important, not only for the scientific community, but also for conservation managers, decision-makers and the general public as they allow data presentation in simple and understandable visual schemes. The main goal of this study was to create an interactive online digital map (hosted and available at MARINBIODIV Atlas), through the collection of data from various sources, to visualise marine invertebrate occurrences and distribution across different habitats, namely mangroves, seagrasses, corals and other coastal areas, in Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. The acquired biodiversity data were managed and structured to be displayed as spatial data and to be disseminated using the geographic information system ArcGIS, where data can be accessed, filtered and mapped. The ArcGIS web mapping design tools were used to produce interactive maps to visualise marine invertebrate diversity information along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, through different habitats, offering the foundation for analysing species incidence and allocation information. Understanding the spatial occurrences and distribution of marine invertebrates in both countries can provide a valuable baseline, regarding information and trends on their coastal marine biodiversity.

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A Geographic Information System as Support to the Healthcare Services of Nomadic Community, the Filtu Woreda Case Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Valuing soils economic worth

A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé & Príncipe

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A Geographic Information System as Support to the Healthcare Services of Nomadic Community, the Filtu Woreda Case Study

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Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Visualize and Communicate Extreme Weather Risk to Improve Urban Resilience in Malawi

Valuing soils economic worth

A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé &amp; Príncipe

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A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé & Príncipe