A GIS Based Water Balance Study of Africa - Physical Land Resources

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91.3. REPORT OVERVIEWFigure 1.1 shows a 4-stage summary of the steps followed to undertake this thesis.GENERAL STEPS- state problem- state researchobjectivesACTIVITY PROCEDURES / PRODUCTSINVOLVED- review literature - discuss with promoter & advisor- read journals & books- discuss with peers- build spatial datasets - search maps- download maps- topography- soil- temperature- precipitation, etc- process spatial data -modify data tomodel compatibleformat- analyze spatial data -set up WetSpass-run model- Grids of:- landuse- soil- topography- slope etc- report results- make conclusions- make recommendationsFigure 1.1: Flowchart of research methodology
101.4. ORGANISATION OF THE REPORTThis report has been organized into 5 chapters. Chapter 1 is a general introduction that outlinesthe research objectives and gives an overview of the methodology.Chapter 2 is a presentation of the review of some consulted literature on GIS-based hydrologicalmodelling. It includes details of the WetSpass methodology employed in the analysis of the datafor this research.Chapter 3 deals with the materials and methods.Chapter 4 is a presentation of the results of the analysis accompanied by some discussion.Finally the report ends with chapter 5 which draws some conclusions and recommendations.
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