2 publications

• Published Subscription 27 Apr 2016

  GIS Based Spatial Analysis for Urban Water Supply: A Case of Kedamay Woyane Sub-City, Mekelle City, Ethiopia

  By Solomon Hailu Mesele, Vanum Govindu, Amare Gebremedhin Nigusse

  Abstract: Access to drinking water supply is one of the universally recognized basic socioeconomic and environmental problems as it is one of the basic needs for human survival. However, this problem is more acute in developing countries like Ethiopia where there is absence and inequity distribution of drinking water access among the society. Nerveless, the problem is more serious in the country’s urban cities like Mekelle city, where the water distribution …

  Published in Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 54–63 Read article →

• Published Subscription 27 Apr 2016

  The Impact of Linear Infrastructure on Land Utilization using GIS

  By Haftay Hailu G/Yohannes, Vanum Govindu, Amare Gebremedhin Nigusse

  Abstract: In all urban centers of the Tigray region and the nation as whole, there is inefficient urban land utilization and development. The bottlenecks in the supply of serviced land are caused by inadequate provision of infrastructure and services. Moreover, the government often provides arterial infrastructure, leaving the provision of secondary and tertiary infrastructure to individuals or private sector developers. As a result private sectors or individuals assembled raw land only. …

  Published in Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 64–74 Read article →