Towards a GIS-Based Environmental Information System for Kuwaitby Dr.Abdul Nabi Al-Ghadban, Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, Kuwait.
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This paper outlines KISR's approach towards establishing a GIS-based Environmental Decision Support System. The first level of this approach is the assessment of data bases that cover all environmental compartments (marine, terrestrial, atmospheric and socio-economic) that are currently available at different agencies in Kuwait.
The second level of the approach involves the establishment of an infra-structure that comprises these databases under a single coherent GIS.
The third level is the development of the decision-support system that will be used by the concerned environmentalist as well as the decision makers in Kuwait.
The paper will also present the latest achievements at all three levels outlined in this abstract.
Dr.Abdul Nabi Al-Ghadban - Profile:
Abdul Nabi Al-Ghadban was granted his B.Sc. in Geology and Chemistry and M.Sc. in Marine Geology from Kuwait University in 1975 and 1980 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wales, United Kingdom in 1986. Currently he is a research scientist in the environmental and earth sciences division at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). He has 20 years of experience in the area of marine geology and sedimentology. Other areas of interest are sediment transport and remote sensing applications in marine environment, applied marine geology with special reference to side scan sonar, geochemistry and environmental impact assessment. Recently he is involved in a major project at KISR for the establishment of an environmental information system. He has more than 20 publications and conferences presentations on some of the above mentioned fields.
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