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Two pedons located on the Experimental Farms of the Federal University of Technology (EF) and Maizube Farms (MF) all around Minna were studied. The result indicated that the pedons had surface texture of sandy loam and sandy clay loam respectively overlaying fine textured subsoil. In the same order, the sand content ranged from 529 to 794 g kg-1 and 417 to 597 g kg-1 and decreased with soil dep...

The non-availability of ellipsoidal heights local geodetic Datums has made it necessary for the application transformation models to available global obtain their respective theoretical in Datums. It is required know accuracy, as well reliability any model interest before its application. For that reason, this study comparatively analyses Molodensky and Kotsakis between geocentric non-geocentri...

We are glad to launch a new format of dialogic book review symposium with Joel Robbins’s (2020) Theology and the Anthropology Christian Life. With contributions from anthropologist Minna Opas, theologian Mika Vähäkangas, response Robbins, this is first instalment encounters on books that cross disciplinary boundaries. Similar (2020: 13) notion ‘transformative dialogue’ between anthropology theo...

Digital city construction brings many conveniences for people all over the world at present and in the future. Grid platform is a kind of better platform which integrates existing resources to share. This paper combines WebGIS technology with grid technology. It briefly puts forward the key technologies to make people understand concerned technology used in the system, and gives system framewor...

The term “Smart City” is to-date widely used, but little clarity appears in the definition behind it. Several approaches led to a growing emphasis on the combined use of geographic information and communication technology to build cognitive frameworks in city planning and management. The present paper tackles an effort to define ‘smart cities’ and to identify both elements of smartness, and cri...