Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Sallis, Philip"

Now showing items 1-7 of 7

    • Approaches to Improving Data Quality in Municipal Solid Waste Management in New Zealand

      Michael-Agwuoke, Macbeda Uche (Auckland University of Technology, 2017)
      Developments in Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) systems are dependent on socio-cultural, political, economic and environmental issues. The ability to assess and evaluate the level and nature of these relationships ...

    • A Context-based Groundwater Data Infrastructure

      Kmoch, Alexander (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
      Groundwater bodies are important and valuable natural resources. To better understand the hydrological state of the environment and groundwater dynamics, data sets and measurements need to be made available and accessible ...

    • Development and characterisation of metal oxide gas sensors

      Bassey, Enobong Effiong (Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
      There is an increasing interest among researchers of environmental sensors to improve the functionality and portability of chemical sensor devices, while applying simple materials and innovative techniques. Nanotechnology, ...

    • Estimation of Near Ground Particulate Matter in Urban Areas

      Zandi, Sara (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)
      Air quality and its effect on human health is an area of increased research and interest over the last twenty years. As the world’s population increases understanding the effects of human activity on the environment and ...

    • Fuzzy ontology and intelligent systems for discovery of useful medical information

      Parry, David Tudor (Auckland University of Technology, 2005)
      Currently, reliable and appropriate medical information is difficult to find on the Internet. The potential for improvement in human health by the use of internet-based sources of information is potentially huge, as knowledge ...

    • Geospatial process modelling for land use cover change

      Nti, Isaac Kwadwo (Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
      Human activities and effects of global warming are increasingly changing the physical landscape. In view of this researchers have developed models to investigate the cause and effect of such variations. Most of these models ...

    • Soft systems analysis of ecosystems

      Shanmuganathan, S (Auckland University of Technology, 2006)
      This research is a case study evaluation of the use of self-organising map (SOM) techniques for ecosystem modelling to overcome the perceived inadequacies with conventional ecological data analysis methods. SOMs provide ...