Groundwater Potential Zone Mapping in Mueda District, Northern Mozambique: Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS-Based AHP and Water Point Validation

This dataset supports the manuscript entitled “Groundwater Potential Zone Mapping in Mueda District, Northern Mozambique: Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS-Based AHP and Water Point Validation”. The dataset includes spatial and tabular materials used to map groundwater potential zones in Mueda District, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique, through the integration of remote sensing, GIS-based multi-criteria analysis, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), weighted overlay modelling, and validation using water point data.

The data package contains the main thematic layers and derived outputs used in the analysis, including rainfall, geology, Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), drainage density, lineament density, land use and land cover, soil type, groundwater potential classes, and water point validation data. These layers were harmonized, reclassified, weighted using AHP, and integrated in a GIS environment to produce the final groundwater potential zone map.

The final classification identifies areas of very low, low, moderate, and high groundwater potential in Mueda District. The dataset also includes information used to calculate the spatial distribution of each groundwater potential class and to assess the spatial relationship between the final map and 17 observed water points. The data are intended to support transparency, reproducibility, and further research on groundwater assessment, hydrogeological planning, and spatial decision-making in data-scarce environments.