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Geo-Intelligence Mapping and Monitoring of Potential Oil-Spill Disaster Hotspots in Niger Delta

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  • International Journal of Science and Engineering Investigations

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  • 2016

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The Niger Delta region remains the epicenter of crude oil exploration, exploitation and pollution hotspot. Presently, oil pipeline spans over 300 kilometers networking over 280 flow station. Imperatively, communities hosting crude oil production will continue to be a potential conflict zone as long as oil exploitation persists in the region, especially, in the absence of critical oil mining cadaster, geo-intelligence monitoring, and management of oil facility hotspots. Sustainability therefore is a critical challenge in the region, not just for food security, shelter and quality of life of the present but for the needs of the region. The hallmark of spatial-based research solution to development and societal problems anchors on geospatial data that is time and location critical. This paper demonstrates geo-intelligence applications as spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for the management of oil-community hotspots sampled from the region. A buffer analysis carried in ArcGIS 9.3 environment captured 184 hotspot communities across two sampled states of Rivers and Bayelsa State .These communities were identified within a 1km buffer zone of oil facilities. Hence, Earth Observation and Satellite (EOS), geo-informatics applications and web-mapping technology will provide an effective geo-intelligence real-time and location-critical monitoring and management of oil-community hotspots in the region.
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