Event: GIS and Remote Sensing in Land Cover, Land Change Analysis Course

Venue: Indepth Research Training Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.

Event Date: 29th January 2018 – 02nd February 2018

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INTRODUCTION
Land use and land cover change have become a central component in current strategies for managing natural resources and monitoring environmental changes. The advancement in the concept of vegetation mapping has greatly increased research on land use land cover change thus providing an accurate evaluation of the spread and health of the world’s forest, grassland, and agricultural resources has become an important priority. Viewing the Earth from space is now crucial to the understanding of the influence of man’s activities on his natural resource base over time. In situations of rapid and often unrecorded land use change, observations of the earth from space provide objective information of human utilization of the landscape. Over the past years, data from Earth-sensing satellites has become vital in mapping the Earth’s features and infrastructures, managing natural resources and studying environmental change.
Participants, therefore, acquire hands-on skills in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing as a tool to capture, store, analyze, manage, and visualize land cover/use change and analysis.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Government workers in land departments, Students, agriculturist, urban and rural planners, environmentalist, professionals working in forest department, professionals working in disaster risk management and humanitarian, M&E expert, Data analyst engineers, Public health practitioners, epidemiologists, exposure scientists, quantitative health geographers, risk assessors, teachers among others.

DURATION
5 days

REQUIREMENTS
No prior knowledge of GIS is required. Participants will be working on their own laptop with Quantum GIS (QGIS)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• To introduce general and advanced GIS and Remote Sensing in land use/ cover changes.
• To expose participants to Digital Image Processing with more emphasis on classification.
• To demonstrate case study of a selected regions using remote sensing software.
• To develop a sound basis for understanding the operation of GIS and Remote Sensing in Land use/cover change

TOPICS TO BE COVERED
The training workshop will discuss the application of GIS and Remote Sensing under the following themes:
• Basic information
• GIS data sources, data collection and integration techniques for DRM
• Pre-processing land cover land use image
• Land use/cover classification
• Assessment of land use land cover
• Online Publishing of maps and GIS output

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ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact the Training Officer. Email: outreach@indepthresearch.org Mob: +254 715 077 817 Tel: 020 211 3814

PAYMENT
Payment should be transferred to IRES account through bank on or before C.O.B. 22nd January 2018. Send proof of payment to outreach@indepthresearch.org