IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bcp/journl/v9y2025i15p1336-1344.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data in Monitoring Water Quality at Ndakaini Reservoir Dam, Kenya

Author

Listed:
  • Kibetu Dickson Kinoti

    (Department of Social Sciences, Chuka University)

  • Boniface Muriuki Kaburu

    (Department of Social Sciences, Chuka University)

Abstract

Pollution from anthropogenic and natural processes threatens most fresh water resources. In Kenya, drought and occasional floods affects water quality negatively impacting health of humans and ecosystem. Currently the use of in situ observation methods for monitoring water quality is inadequate, periodic and at selected sample points. The potential of remote sensing-based techniques in examining water quality in open water bodies is explored. Aim of this study was to assess variability in Chlorophyll concentration (Chl_a), water temperature (SST) and Suspended Sediment Concentrations (SSC) of Ndakaini Dam before and after the destructive April-May 2018 floods. Landsat 8 OLI imagery and QGIS V 2.14 Essen geospatial software were used. The results indicated that Chlorophyll concentration levels decreased by 0.26mg/l, water temperature dropped by 30C while Suspended Sediment increased by 2.57mg/l. Generally, analysed water quality parameters showed a spatial and temporal variation across the April-May 2018 floods. Ndakaini dam was found to be a low-level pollution mesotrophic reservoir.

Suggested Citation

  • Kibetu Dickson Kinoti & Boniface Muriuki Kaburu, 2025. "Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data in Monitoring Water Quality at Ndakaini Reservoir Dam, Kenya," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(15), pages 1336-1344, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:9:y:2025:i:15:p:1336-1344
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/uploads/vol9-iss15-pg1336-1344-202511_pdf.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/using-satellite-remote-sensing-data-in-monitoring-water-quality-at-ndakaini-reservoir-dam-kenya/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:9:y:2025:i:15:p:1336-1344. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dr. Pawan Verma (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.