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David N. Kuria

Associate Professor, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
Verified email at dkut.ac.ke
Cited by 863

Estimates of the size of key populations at risk for HIV infection: men who have sex with men, female sex workers and injecting drug users in Nairobi, Kenya

J Okal, S Geibel, N Muraguri, H Musyoki… - Sexually transmitted …, 2013 - sti.bmj.com
Objectives Size estimates of populations at higher risk for HIV infection are needed to help
policy makers understand the scope of the epidemic and allocate appropriate resources …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating continental river basin discharges using multiple remote sensing data sets

AW Sichangi, L Wang, K Yang, D Chen, Z Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Rivers act as a source of fresh water for terrestrial life, yet the discharges are poorly
documented since the existing direct observations are inadequate and some observation …

Using geographic information systems (GIS) to determine land suitability for rice crop growing in the Tana delta

DN Kuria, D Ngari, E Waithaka - 2011 - repository.dkut.ac.ke
This research gives an evaluation of Tana delta with regard to areas that are suitable for rice
growing. The study area lies on the Eastern delta area of the Tana river of which 16000 …

HIV and STI prevalence and risk factors among male sex workers and other men who have sex with men in Nairobi, Kenya

N Muraguri, W Tun, J Okal, D Broz… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Previous surveys of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa have not adequately
profiled HIV status and risk factors by sex work status. MSM in Nairobi, Kenya, were …

Mapping groundwater potential in Kitui District, Kenya using geospatial technologies

DN Kuria, MK Gachari, MW Macharia, E Mungai - 2012 - repository.dkut.ac.ke
Kitui district is a semi-arid region characterized by erratic and unreliable rainfall. Despite
this, the main economic activity is rain-fed agriculture, with irrigation agriculture taking place …

Crop-land suitability analysis using GIS and remote sensing in Nyandarua

SW Kamau, DN Kuria, MK Gachari - 2015 - 41.89.227.156
Land suitability analysis is a method of land evaluation, which measures the degree of
appropriateness of land for a certain use. The aim of this research was to identify and …

Image enhancements of Landsat 8 (OLI) and SAR data for preliminary landslide identification and mapping applied to the central region of Kenya

MW Mwaniki, DN Kuria, MK Boitt, TG Ngigi - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
Image enhancements lead to improved performance and increased accuracy of feature
extraction, recognition, identification, classification and hence change detection. This …

Field-supported verification and improvement of a passive microwave surface emission model for rough, bare, and wet soil surfaces by incorporating shadowing …

DN Kuria, T Koike, H Lu, H Tsutsui… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To investigate the potential of passive microwave techniques for observing the atmosphere
over land, it is important to understand the nature of emissions from the land surface. The …

GIS based forest cover change and vulnerability analysis: A case study of the Nandi North forest zone

DN Kuria, SA Wachiye, D Musiega - 2013 - 41.89.227.156
. This study investigates the patterns of land use change, the reasons for those changes and
the vulnerability of forests in Nandi North forest zone in Kenya between the years 1986 to …

Improving land surface soil moisture and energy flux simulations over the Tibetan plateau by the assimilation of the microwave remote sensing data and the GCM …

H Lu, T Koike, K Yang, Z Hu, X Xu, M Rasmy… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The land surface soil moisture is a crucial variable in weather and climate models. This
study presents a land data assimilation system (LDAS) that aims to improve the simulation of …