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Assisting The Community Of Yei, Republic Of South Sudan With GIS

Assisting The Community Of Yei, Republic Of South Sudan With GIS. By Jacob S. Gilly Adviser Dr. Frank Hardisty. Outline. Background Summary Goals Questions/Comments . Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A. Project Overview. Create a GIS with few resources

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Assisting The Community Of Yei, Republic Of South Sudan With GIS

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  1. Assisting The Community Of Yei, Republic Of South SudanWith GIS By Jacob S. Gilly Adviser Dr. Frank Hardisty

  2. Outline • Background • Summary • Goals • Questions/Comments

  3. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Project Overview • Create a GIS with few resources • Identify minimum resources required • Provide a model for others to follow • Train recipients to use the GIS

  4. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Motivation Roads Clean Water Access Healthcare Sanitation

  5. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Yei, Republic of South Sudan Located at the intersection of major trade routes that connect Sudan to Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo

  6. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Yei Background • Civil Wars devastated the land from 1955 to 2005 • On July 9, 2011 The Republic of South Sudan is created • Clean drinking water is not available to everyone • Sanitation; trash is burned and sewer is buried • Residents depend heavily on humanitarian aid • Most of the main roads were destroyed • Inadequate health care • Population explosion • Extreme poverty • Basic resources are scarce

  7. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Organization and Communication • Government structure • Many stakeholders • No plan to facilitate communication • Many needs, few resources • Various experience levels

  8. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A How Can GIS Help? • Viewing data • Publish maps • Calculate distances and routes • Create attribute tables • Create overlays for simple analysis • Spatial analysis • Raster analysis

  9. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Can It Be Done? Jalisco, Mexico Uster, Switzerland The Southern Downs Region Queensland, Australia

  10. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Software

  11. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Quantum GIS Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a powerful and user friendly Open Source GIS that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows  

  12. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Architecture Product Output GPS Data Myself Yei GIS Layers Data Collection

  13. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Can It Be Implemented? • Measureable Benefits • Training • Communication

  14. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Contacts • Dr. Frank Hardisty Penn State Adviser • Karen Combs Kingsport, TN City Planner, Worked with Officials in Yei on 20yr. plan • Godwill SoroEliabaHead Surveyor City of Yei • AsegaJoseph James City Planner City of Yei • Candiru Lilly Thomas City Planner City of Yei • Steve Hodges Long time missionary to Yei, Involved in many aid programs

  15. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Goals Of The Project • Help the people of Yei by providing a GIS to aid in city planning and communicate rebuilding efforts. • To create a model that can be used as a template or guide to creating a GIS with very few resources.

  16. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Helping Yei • Existing layers to be included in model: • Polygons Lines Points Buildings

  17. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Helping Yei

  18. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Yei GIS As A Model Use limited resources to create a tool powerful enough to aid in city planning At the same time create a model that can be replicated using minimal resources

  19. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Training Nothing to install or download Record on your MAC or PC Plays everywhere even on iPhones It’s completely FREE! Take a picture or make a short video Share it instantly Simple and free

  20. Background / Summary / Goals / Q&A Questions? USAID Project Map South Sudan http://www.southsudanmaps.org/Yei.html Learn more about QGIS http://www.qgis.org/ Learn More about Google Fusion Tables http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html More on the newly formed nation http://www.goss.org/

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