Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

MWRMM - T: Mobile Water Resource Mapping and Management Tool

World Congress on GIS & Remote Sensing

August 01-03, 2016 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Makario Sylvia Bosibori

Geowiz Services Limited, Kenya

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Remote Sensing & GIS

Abstract:

Mobile water resource mapping and management tool (MWRMM-T) is a mobile application coded on the android platform to help combat water scarcity problems while promoting sustainability of the existing water resources in Machakos County, Kenya with plans of rolling out the tool to the whole country of Kenya and other African Counties. The tool integrates both the mobile application with the location element (GPS Tracking) that enables the registering of the mapped water resources with their specific location. The MWRMM-T is a very simple tool that meets the needs of even those with low literacy level in the community who have shown interest in being part of the mapping party due to its visualization power, as it can be displayed in the back-end database, the mapped information is sent instantly through real time mapping. All the existing data archived in the back-end database was collected in Machakos County in collaboration with the county government individuals and civic leaders with the need to test the tool. Information can be visualized by clicking on any water resource mapped to get the particular details, including any kind of action required for making better informed decisions. The back-end database is a web application that is hosted on our own server spaces. Searching/querying the database is by location name, sub-county or feature format. Keen selections of spatial analysis methods for water resources analysis or regular quality control are also possible with MWRMM-T. MWRMM-T was hence built understanding the needs of the grassroot level individuals in the rural and peri-urban setting in Kenya, working on promoting sustainability on their water resources.

Biography :

Makario Sylvia Bosibori’s experience spans the fields of geospatial engineering and space technology. She holds a Bsc in Geospatial Engineering and Space Technology from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and is now pursuing Master’s of Science in Information Technology. She has worked with the United Nations and other organizations. She is co-founder and management executive of a startup company Geowiz Services, which she founded in 2013. Her main focus is on business development and fostering partnerships to enable the company deliver services to both the public and private sectors with special emphasis on those that need systems and applications that need integration of Space/Spatial data. She is currently taking a Professional Practicum at Ramani Geosystems, a geospatial and space technology engineering firm in Kenya. She also curates information and writes about emerging technologies in her blog where her major focus is on geospatial technologies and earth observations for development in a wide range of Areas. Her other interests are on design thinking and how creating tools and strategies around design thinking can enable provide solutions to problems centered around the user.

Email: makariosylvia@gmail.com