This paper developed an optimization technique for groundwater vulnerability in Kano Metropolis, North-Western Nigeria. A combination of DRASTIC is taken from initial letters seven parameters namely depth to water table (D), net recharge (R), aquifer media (A), soil (S), topography (T), impact vadose zone (V) and hydraulic conductivity (C), while GOD also represents confinement (G), overlaying ...

Teknolojinin yaşamımızın her alanında kendini göstermesiyle birlikte, su yönetiminde de çeşitli uygulamalar ortaya çıkmıştır. Birçok ve kanalizasyon idaresi atık suyla ilgili olarak akıllı yönetimi uygulamalarını kullanmaya başlamıştır. Hâlihazırda mevcut uygulamaların iyileştirilmesine yeni teknolojilerin alternatif modellerin geliştirilmesine ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. Ancak, geleceğine yönelik o...

Toponym disambiguation or location names resolution is a critical task in unstructured text, articles or documents. Our research explores how to link ambiguous locations mentioned in documents, news and articles with latitude/longitude coordinates. We designed an evaluation system for toponym disambiguation based on annotated GEOCLEF data. We implemented a node-based approach taking population ...

Evaluating the impact of scholarly papers plays an important role for addressing recruitment decision, funding allocation and promotion, etc. Yet little is known how actual geographic distance influences the impact of scholarly papers. In this paper, we leverage the law of geographic distance and citations between different institutions to weight quantum Pagerank algorithm for objectively measu...