https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/344 2026-04-18T06:06:38Z 2026-04-18T06:06:38Z Jia Wang Itohan Osayande Peter M. Macharia Prestige Tatenda Makanga Kerry L. M. Wong Tope Olubodun Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi Olakunmi Ogunyemi Abimbola Olaniran Ibukun-Oluwa O. Abejirinde Lenka Beňová https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5891 2023-10-27T12:47:22Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Application of GIS in public health practice: a consortium’s approach to tackling travel delays in obstetric emergencies in urban areas: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023): 12th - 15th September, 2023. Leeds, UK Authors: Jia Wang; Itohan Osayande; Peter M. Macharia; Prestige Tatenda Makanga; Kerry L. M. Wong; Tope Olubodun; Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi; Olakunmi Ogunyemi; Abimbola Olaniran; Ibukun-Oluwa O. Abejirinde; Lenka Beňová Abstract: Geographic Information System (GIS) has become an effective and reliable tool for researchers, policymakers, and decision-makers to map health outcomes and inform targeted planning, evaluation, and monitoring. With the advent of big data-enabled GIS, researchers can now identify disparities and spatial inequalities in health at more granular levels, enabling them to provide more accurate and robust services and products for healthcare. This paper aims to showcase the progress of the On Tackling In-transit Delays for Mothers in Emergency (OnTIME) project, which is a unique collaborative effort between academia, policymakers, and industrial partners. The paper demonstrates how the limitations of traditional spatial accessibility models and data gaps have been overcome by combining GIS and big data to map the geographic accessibility and coverage of health facilities capable of providing emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in conurbations in Africa. The OnTIME project employs various GIS technologies and concepts, such as big spatial data, spatial databases, and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS). We provide an overview of these concepts in relation to the OnTIME project to demonstrate the application of GIS in public health practice.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Jia Wang Itohan Osayande Peter M. Macharia Prestige Tatenda Makanga Kerry L. M. Wong Tope Olubodun Uchenna Gwacham-Anisiobi Olakunmi Ogunyemi Abimbola Olaniran Ibukun-Oluwa O. Abejirinde Lenka Beňová Kurwakumire, Edward Muchechetere, Paul Kuzhazha, Shelter Ikokou, Guy Blachard https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5165 2022-08-24T10:11:55Z 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Geographic Information and Geo-visualisation in support of Disaster Resilience: 29th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2019), 15–20 July 2019, Tokyo, Japan. Authors: Kurwakumire, Edward; Muchechetere, Paul; Kuzhazha, Shelter; Ikokou, Guy Blachard Abstract: Society continues to become more spatially enabled as spatial data becomes increasingly available and accessible. This is partly due to democratisation of data achieved through open access of framework data sets. On the other hand, mobile devices such as smartphones have become more accessible, giving the public access to applications that use spatial data. This has tremendously increased the consumption of spatial data at the level of the general public. Spatial data has a history in planning and decision making as detailed in literature on promises and benefits of geographic information. We extend these promises to sustainability and disaster resilience. It is our belief that geographic information (GI) and geographic information infrastructures (GIIs) contribute positively towards the achievement of sustainability in cities and nations and in disaster resilience. This study carries out a review of geo- visualisation and GI applications in order to determine their suitability and impact in disaster resilience. Real-time GI are significant for cities to ensure sustainability and to increase disaster preparedness. Geographic information infrastructures need to be integrated with BIG data systems to ensure that local government agencies have timely access to real time geographic information so that decisions on sustainability and disaster resilience can be effectively done.

2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Kurwakumire, Edward Muchechetere, Paul Kuzhazha, Shelter Ikokou, Guy Blachard Muchechetere, Paul Kurwakumire, Edward https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5164 2022-08-24T10:10:14Z 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Towards a Land Titling Framework for Improving Rural Livelihoods: FIG Working Week 2020, Smart surveyors for land and water management; Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10–14 May 2020 Authors: Muchechetere, Paul; Kurwakumire, Edward Abstract: The continuum of rights model developed by UN-Habitat describes different forms of relationships that mankind has with land. These rights range from the informal to formal continuum. It is the less formal rights that are of major concern especially in the developing world as they are in most cases neither officially registered nor documented. This brings forth various land administration problems to include difficulty in managing natural disasters and land resources. The absence of land registration in customary tenure areas has resulted in research in land titling as a method to move informal tenure arrangements to the formal domains and hence with the assumption that land titling improves land tenure security. Whether or not land titling is working has varied opinions in academic literature. The aim of this study is to determine factors influencing the misalignment between land titling, land tenure security and the improvement of the quality of life of communities. The second aim is to design a land titling framework that addresses these misalignments. This study reviews literature on land titling with land tenure security as the unit of analysis. We critically analyse the relationship between land titling and land tenure security including the extent of this relationship based on a systematic literature review. Based on issues in land titling for customary and land resettlement areas that have been presented in academic literature, a framework for land titling is proposed. The framework addresses sustainable development goals 1 and 2 as it focuses on improving rural livelihoods through tenure security and community empowerment. Land tenure reform is a public infrastructure and should not be implemented in isolation of other developmental activities. The land titling policy framework should be aligned with the development goals of a national and spatial development framework at municipality level to ensure sustainability.

2020-05-01T00:00:00Z Muchechetere, Paul Kurwakumire, Edward Paradzayi, Charles Annegarn, Harold Erasmus, Barend Schmullius, Christiane https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/4269 2022-06-27T13:49:05Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Polarimetric analysis over African savanna woodland using ALOS/PALSAR: paper presented at a conference held on 12-17 July 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa Authors: Paradzayi, Charles; Annegarn, Harold; Erasmus, Barend; Schmullius, Christiane Abstract: This paper presents polarimetric analysis over African Savanna woodland using ALOS/PALSAR to investigate the trend between backscatter and biomass levels. An extensive field inventory was carried out combining Differential GPS and conventional topographic mapping techniques. Geographic position, basal diameter and height of trees in sampled plots were measured. Plot level biomass quantities were obtained using established allometry for the region. Geocoded ALOS/PALSAR level 1.1 and 1.5 data is checked for accuracy against existing geospatial data for the case study area. Sigma nought, Freeman and Pauli component are extracted for the sampled plots to investigate the relationship between biomass, volume and double bounce scattering. Finally a comparison of sigma nought, Freeman and Pauli components is carried out to analyze trend against volume and double bounce scattering.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Paradzayi, Charles Annegarn, Harold Erasmus, Barend Schmullius, Christiane