URBANIFE: a geographical information system for monitoring internal developments in an African traditional urban area
✍ Scribed by Musisi Nkambwe
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 798 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-2716
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✦ Synopsis
Nkambwe, M., 1991. URBANIFE: a geographical information system for monitoring internal developments in an African traditional urban area. ISPRSJ.Photogramm. Remote Sensing, Data acquisition and information organization are major constraints in monitoring developments in traditional African urban environments. The internal arrangements and developments of housing units, land uses, communication routes, etc., in these urban areas make it difficult to use cadastral mapping techniques from other continents in building an information base useful for planning. In particular, sub-divisions of plots eventually make the "plot" less meaningful for planning as they are not recorded over time. Ideas expressed in an earlier proposal for a framework for an urban information system that included a temporal component to partially overcome this problem were used to build URBANIFE, a geographical information system for mapping and monitoring internal developments in the urban area of lle-Ife, in southwestern Nigeria. URBANIFE provides an information system in which x-y coordinates from cadastral maps are used to identify the location of individual buildings, while multidate aerial photographs are interpreted and supplemented with field work to provide the temporal dimensions of some of the buildings' attributes considered important in planning and administration.