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The AWRD was designed based on recommendations of the Committee on Inland Fisheries for Africa (CIFA) and is both an expansion
and an update of an earlier project led by the Aquatic Resource Management for Local Community Development Programme (ALCOM)
entitled the "Southern African Development Community Water Resource Database" (SADC-WRD).
The AWRD publication is organized in two parts to inform readers who may be at varying levels of familiarity with GIS and
with the benefits of the AWRD:
"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C.
African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 1. Concepts and application case
studies. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 1. Rome, FAO. 2007. 168p."
"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C.
African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook.
CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007. 286p. Includes two DVD's.".
The first part describes the AWRD and is divided into two main sections. The first presents a general overview and is addressed
to administrators and managers while the second is written for professionals in technical fields.
The second part is a "how to" supplement and includes a technical manual for spatial analysts and a workbook for university
students and teachers.
The primary AWRD interface, tool-sets and data integral to the function of the AWRD are distributed in two DVD's accompanying
part 2 of this publication, and are also available for download from FAO's GeoNetwork and GISFish GIS portals. A more limited
distribution of the above primary database/interface, but divided among ten separate CD-ROM disks, is available upon request
to FAOs' Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service. Also, high resolution elevation datasets and images amounting
to 38 gigabytes are available upon request.
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