Applicability of big data analytics to support groundwater management in Southern Africa
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Groundwater is a vital resources for member states in the Southern African Development
Community (SADC). However, sustainable managing groundwater resources in SADC
is a challenge. Amongst the many issues facing groundwater managers in SADC, limited
access to high fidelity data, as well as a poor understanding of the techniques needed to
transform the data into information, has hampered the decision making process. Big data
relates to large, voluminous and heterogenous datasets which are being generated through
numerous activities, such as computer simulations, remote sensing, commercial
transactions, internet activity, monitoring networks, IoT sensors, historical documents,
social media and many others.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
Keywords
Big data, Groundwater, Southern African Development Community (SADC), Climate change, South Africa