Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras

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Autor(a) principal: Gómez, Jefferson Valencia
Data de Publicação: 2016
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18405
Resumo: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
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spelling Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western HondurasDry CorridorExtreme PovertyGeographic Information SystemsGIS ApplicationIrrigation SystemsSurface FeaturesLeast-Cost PathWater CatchmentsWater ScarcityDissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geospatial TechnologiesIn Western Honduras, most of people live in rural areas under extreme conditions of poverty. This area is part of the Centro American dry corridor which is affected by droughts and, therefore, water scarcity. Access to water is limited; which affects human welfare and agricultural production. As a plausible solution, this thesis work provides a tool to identify feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and surface features. This tool can support decision makers to address water catchments in the study area. Two versions of this tool were developed. Both desktop and online versions allow the user to find potential sites to take water from streams through hosepipes. The suggested paths, over which these hosepipes can be installed, are modeled by using the Least-Cost Path (LCP) approach. We contrasted the results provided by the tool with two actual cases. The results showed the potential of this tool to find possible water intakes different from the current cases. In both cases, the tool was capable of finding water intakes very close to the current sites. This thesis proves that the use of GIS technologies in combination with decision rules and surface features can provide a novel solution to the real problem of water scarcity in Western Honduras.Casteleyn, SvenCosta, Ana Cristina Marinho daHuerta Guijarro, JoaquínSrinivasan, RaghavanRUNGómez, Jefferson Valencia2016-07-05T14:44:17Z2016-03-072016-03-07T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/18405TID:201179423enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T03:57:27Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/18405Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:24:42.900890Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
title Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
spellingShingle Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
Gómez, Jefferson Valencia
Dry Corridor
Extreme Poverty
Geographic Information Systems
GIS Application
Irrigation Systems
Surface Features
Least-Cost Path
Water Catchments
Water Scarcity
title_short Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
title_full Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
title_fullStr Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
title_full_unstemmed Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
title_sort Siting feasible water catchments for small irrigation projects in Western Honduras
author Gómez, Jefferson Valencia
author_facet Gómez, Jefferson Valencia
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Casteleyn, Sven
Costa, Ana Cristina Marinho da
Huerta Guijarro, Joaquín
Srinivasan, Raghavan
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Gómez, Jefferson Valencia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Dry Corridor
Extreme Poverty
Geographic Information Systems
GIS Application
Irrigation Systems
Surface Features
Least-Cost Path
Water Catchments
Water Scarcity
topic Dry Corridor
Extreme Poverty
Geographic Information Systems
GIS Application
Irrigation Systems
Surface Features
Least-Cost Path
Water Catchments
Water Scarcity
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