Using spatial information technologies as monitoring devices in international watershed conservation along the Senegal River Basin of West Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 464-476

  Merem, Edmund C ^a   Twumasi, Yaw A ^b  

^a Jackson State University   (United States)

^b ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; International watershed; Monitoring; Remote sensing; River Basin

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; DEGRADATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; HYDROPOWER; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SENEGAL; STATISTICS; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

EID: 58849156854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph5050464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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