Parts of Abstract

• Study Area

• Objective / Significance

• Methodology

• Results / Findings

• Conclusions

• Recommendations

Example

• Re-search Paper Name: APPLICATION OF THE OVERLAY

WEIGHTED MODEL AND BOOLEAN LOGIC TO DETERMINE

THE BEST LOCATIONS FOR ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE OF

GROUNDWATER

• Authors: Peter H.S. Riad1, Max Bilib2, Ahmed A. Hassan1, Maha

Abdel Salam3 and Mohamed Nour El Din1

1Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo/Egypt

2institute of Water Resource Management, hydrology and Agricultural

Hydraulic Engineering, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

3Research Institute for Groundwater, El Kanater-Cairo/Egypt

Example (Re-written)

Due to lack of fresh drinking water in modern cities, there is always an urge to find out

other ways to accommodate the water supply and demand. This re-search paper

compares 2 techniques: Weighted Overlay Method and Boolean Logic. The study area is

Sadat City, lies on 93 km from Cairo-Alexandria Highway, is a new industrial city.

The 1st method involves here requires 8 factors and their weightage. As every factor is not

equally important. Then to re-classify the raster in order to get the suitability map, after

taking products of factors with its weightage. The 2nd method involves all the factors, and

then to apply Boolean Logic using raster calculator. It yields the answer in true and false,

one that meets the conditions and other that do not.

The results shows that the northern part of the city has the best locations for artificial

ground water recharge.

It is recommended that both methods do their job well. It is upto requirement, if just to

have a general idea, then Boolean is an easy way of doing. But if one wants more flexible

results with medium range, then Weighted Overlay Method serves the purpose accurately

Example (Original from Paper)

With population increase, lack of conventional fresh water resources and uncertainties due to climate change,

there is growing interest in the arid and semi-arid areas to increase groundwater recharge with recycled water.

Finding the best locations for artificial recharge of groundwater in such areas is one of the most crucial design

steps to guarantee the long life and the sustainability of these projects. This study presents two ways to go

about performing analysis; creating a suitability map to find out the suitability of every location on the map

and another way is querying the created data sets to obtain a Boolean result of true or false map. These

techniques have been applied on Sadat Industrial City which is located in a semi arid area in the western

desert

fringes of The Nile delta in the north west of Egypt. Thematic layers for number of parameters were prepared

from some maps and satellite images and they have been classified, weighted and integrated in ArcGIS

environment. By the means of the overlay weighted model in ArcGIS a suitability map which is classified into

number of priority zones was obtained and it could be compared with the obtained true-false map of Boolean

logic. Both methods suggested mostly the northern parts of the city for groundwater recharge; however the

weighted model could give more accurate suitability map while Boolean logic suggested wider ranges of areas.

This study recommends Boolean logic as a first estimator for locating the best locations as it is easier and not

time consuming, while the overlay weighted model for more accurate results.

Words Limit

Words limit???

o As per format

o Generally,

• Paper = 200 words

• Conference = 250 - 300 words

Example

• Re-written:

o 195 words

• Original:

o 262 words

Parts of Title

Parts of title:

• Summary

OR

• Objective

OR

• Case Study

Example

• Re-search Paper Name: Application Of The Overlay Weighted

Model And Boolean Logic To Determine The Best Locations For

Artificial Recharge Of Groundwater

• Re-search Paper Name: Estimation and Distribution of Nitrate

Contamination in Groundwater of Wah Town, its Causes and

Management

• Re-search Paper Name: Modelling categorical data to identify

factors influencing concern for the natural environment in Iran.

Parts of Proposal

• Study Area

• Objective

• Data

• Methodology

• Applications

Don’t Write

• Results

• Conclusions

• Hypothesis

Optional

• Title Name

Example

• Title of Proposal

o The title of my proposal is: ‘‘… ’’

• Study Area

o The study area chosen for this project (so for now, other options can be

considered.) is: ‘‘… ’’

• Purpose and Objective of Study

o Few of the main objectives of my proposal are:

• Datasets and Methodology

o Available Datasets

o Methodology

o Software

• Applications and Significance:

o This will helps in the assessment of ………….