Peter Macharia

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Citing a journal Article and a Conference Proceeding Article, the difference?

Citing a published conference proceeding article, to support a case or a scenario in a paper, is it inferior to citing a published journal article? In the cases where you can only find conference...

04 April 2015 4,617 1 View

Dowloading OpenstreetMap streets of a country?

Is it possible to download, openstreetmap streets of country?

03 March 2015 9,156 1 View

How can I compare agreeability of Expert Responses in AHP?

I have responses from Experts in AHP ranking 13 variables. I wish to compare the agreelibiality and disagreement better experts in the same cluster e.g Engineers,Geologists etc. How different were...

02 February 2015 4,346 7 View

Am looking for a satellite imagery better than 20m in spatial resolution, multispectral and was available before 1986. Which satellites existed?

Imagery better than 20m Resoultion before 1986?

02 February 2015 656 16 View

Can we use geospatial technology in real monitering of a road construction?

How can GIS, GPS, remote sensing and the internet be effectively used to monitoring construction of a road in real-time? Are there any research articles or reference materials in regard to this.

02 February 2015 2,143 8 View

What would be the determinants of the time epochs lengths in Land Use and Land cover?

In a research in regards to land cover land use classification from 1986 to 2014, with an area of about 200km2, what would be the determinants of the time epochs lengths?

02 February 2015 7,945 11 View

How do I compare two datasets?

I have two sets of data from two respondents ranking 13 variables in order of their importance in percentages. What tests can I run to compare the agreebiality of disagreemnet between these two...

01 January 2015 4,888 4 View

Management and Prudent Utilization of Natural Resources that leads to Community Development Using Geo-spatial Tools?

What are the current trends in the research involving management of natural resources thats geered towards community development using GIS, Remote Sensing?

11 November 2014 6,217 1 View

Are there only applications in GIS now?

GIS finds application almost everywhere and limited by our imagination, does this mean GIS itself is at its peak and no new discoveries to improve the body of knowledge. What's the direction...

10 October 2014 8,816 6 View

What's the relationship between NDVI and classification?

At any instance can NDVI be used as a substitute to classification or to improve classification results?

07 July 2014 5,878 6 View

Can anyone help with displaying data in Google Earth?

When you have GIS data in UTM and in a particular datum say new ARC 1960, its possible to convert it to a kmz/kml file then load it in Google Earth. What errors occur when displaying the data? Is...

06 June 2014 9,799 6 View

What is the best resolution for free remote sensing imagery?

Except Landsat (30m resolution), what other satellites provide free imagery of resolution below 30? Through which links can I download?

05 May 2014 3,396 21 View

Orphanages, Children's Home, aged care centres, vulnerable children home MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING OPEN SOURCE

This is an area am researching on, i can hardly find related papers from journals or conference proceedings, anyone who can recommend a related research or contributions to this system

01 January 2014 5,464 0 View

What is the minimum acceptable sample size in AHP when you have 13 variables under consideration?

I have a range of experts but I am not sure how many questionnaires I should run.

10 October 2013 8,658 9 View

What the Consistency Ratio and for how many variables?

In AHP method of weighting, as the number of variables increases so should the Consistency ratio. Prof Saaty suggested a CR of 0.1 irrespective of the number of variables, researchers have found...

09 September 2013 7,218 2 View