Volume 3, Issue 1 (April)

Articles in this Issue

4 articles
1
Research Article

Building Compliance to Road Setback in Urban Area of Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria: from Remotely Sensed Data

Akingbade, A.O*, Olaiya, R.O, Olabamiji, A.E.

The effectiveness of physical planning is a function of developers’ level of compliance to Physical development regulations provided by the planning authorities in charge of development control. This paper assessed the level of building compliance to road setback regulations and examined pattern of encroachment on major roads in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria using GIS and Remote Sensing. Ikonos 201...

Apr, 2022 pp. 13-22
2
Research Article

GIS Analysis of Potential Crime Locations in University Neighborhood: A Case Study of College of Medicine, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria

Peter Elias, Franca Attoh, Abiodun Ajijola*, Samuel Adejoh

Crimes are pervasive with potentials to disrupt community’s socio-economic activities and academics learning. The College of Medicine University of Lagos (CMUL) Idi-Araba campus neighborhood is predominantly slum both in physical and social characteristics thus vulnerable to criminal activities. Mapping the distribution of human activities and other geographic features that are potential crime’s l...

Aug, 2022 pp. 23-35
3
Research Article

Geospatial Analysis of Lagos State Landfill Site Suitability and Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System

Nathaniel Olugbade ADEOYE*, Collins Chidiebele OKELEKE

Landfill siting is an extremely complex task, mainly because of the process and strict regulations engrossed. This study determined suitability of Lagos State landfill sites by combining geographic information system (GIS) and multicriteria decision-making method (MCDM) known as analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver was used to acquire x, y coordinates of the e...

May, 2022 pp. 36-56
4
Research Article

Comparative Assessment of Nigeriasat-X and Landsat ETM+ Satellite Data in Groundwater Potential Modelling using a part of FCT as Case Study

Olatunji Sunday ABOYEJI*, Oluwaseyi Emmanuel OLUWAFEMI

Groundwater is an important natural resource that supports plants and animal lives. An important factor responsible for its scarcity in developing countries is increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid growth in population and the associated anthropogenic activities. Many studies have used Landsat data for groundwater potential modelling. Information on the usability of NigeriaSat-X data for th...

Jul, 2022 pp. 57-73
Back to Volume 3