Botswana International University of Science and Technology BIUST
Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) GIS/Remote Sensing Programme Prof. Felicia Akinyemi Earth & Environmental Science Dept. MESA SADC Training BIUST Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Env. Sci. 14 -18 March 2016 1 NUST Campus, Windhoek
Academic programmes studying GIS/RS • Enhance academic programme/curriculum with MESA training materials ) Category Course code & title Programme Offering Undergraduates ENVS 305: BSc Geology, Geographic BSc Environmental Information Systems Science, BSc Earth GIS/RS and Databases & Environmental courses Science ENVS 302: Remote BSc Geology, Sensing in Earth and BSc Environmental Science, BSc Earth Sciences & Environmental Science Credit Type Semester Prerequisite 3 Core 1 none 3 Core 2 ENVS 305 ENVS 404: Applied BSc 3 Geographic Environmental Information System Science Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST and Remote Sensing Env. Sci. Core/ 2 Electi ve ENVS 302, ENVS 305 2
Academic programmes studying GIS/RS… • MSc & Ph. D by research (Postgraduate) Category Course code & title Offering Credit Type Semester Prerequisites Postgraduate MSc ENVS 522: MSc Environmental 4 Core 2 ENVS 305 GIS/RS Environmental Science or equivalent courses modelling with GIS BSc GIS course ENVS 552: MSc Environmental 3 Electi 2 ENVS 302 Environmental Science ve or equivalent Remote Sensing BSc RS course Courses ENVS 413: BSc 4 Core 1 ENVS 302, applying Environmental field Environmental Science, GEOL 306 GIS/RS mapping and BSc Earth & reporting/Internship Environmental Science Other courses in Geology, Hydrology Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST 3 utilise GIS/RS Env. Sci.
GIS & RS Research Assessment u. Land degradation assessment & mapping Mapping Impacts & adaptation Mineral & petroleum Early warning system for exploration u. Geoscience applications food security Image time. Heavy metal Mining & quarrying u. Land use/land cover change GIS-Downscaling of climate series analysis concentration modelling Geosciences change projections u. Human-environment interactions Spatio-temporal land information analysis Multi-criteria evaluation change mapping Water resources u. Water resources Quantity, quality, Peri-urban growth distribution u. Soils u. Climate Change & Variability u. Soils Impacts on agric & food security Palaeopedology, Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction 4 Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Env. Sci. Land change projections
Potential areas of collaboration MESA services of interest • Flooding • Drought • Agriculture Collaboration • Enhance academic curriculum with MESA training materials • Collaborative research e. g. drought assessment, water resources assessment, agriculture and climatic change impacts • Product validation • Internships for students • In-service training for NFPs Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST 5 Env. Sci.
THANK YOU akinyemif@biust. ac. bw tirivarombos@biust. ac. bw Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Env. Sci. 6
Studentship programme in GIS/RS research for MSc & Ph. D theses Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Env. Sci. 7
Academic programmes studying GIS/RS… • Short course/training programme Object-Oriented Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change Detection, Modelling and Land Degradation Mapping. 26 January – 6 February 2015 (10 trainees including Council staff) Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Organised by the USAID/BIUST funded LDIMapping project Env. Sci. 8
GIS/RS in community service Web mapping applications for the Palapye sub-district http: //www. arcgis. com/apps/Map. Series/? appid=47 b 31 ecd 5930432 fb 4 efa 182 b 30608 a 0 Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST Env. Sci. 9
Links • Land degradation web mapping application http: //www. arcgis. com/apps/Map. Series/? appid=47 b 31 ecd 5930432 fb 4 efa 182 b 30608 a 0 • Biust web pages http: //www. biust. ac. bw/index. php/sciencedepartments/earth-enviromental-sciences • USAID-BIUST funded land degradation project Prof. Felicia Akinyemi, BIUST http: //servircatalogue. net/Product? product_id=90 Env. Sci. 10
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