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Enhancing GIS/RS Academic Programmes for Climate Adaptation

Explore GIS/RS programmes at BIUST for MSc & PhD, focusing on climate change, land degradation, and human-environment interactions. Collaborate on research and projects to address food security and water resources.

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Enhancing GIS/RS Academic Programmes for Climate Adaptation

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  1. Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) GIS/Remote Sensing Programme Prof. Felicia Akinyemi Earth & Environmental Science Dept. BIUST MESA SADC Training 14-18 March 2016 NUST Campus, Windhoek

  2. Academic programmes studying GIS/RS • Enhance academic programme/curriculum with MESA training materials )

  3. Academic programmes studying GIS/RS… • MSc & PhD by research (Postgraduate)

  4. Impacts & adaptation • Climate Change & Variability Early warning system for food security GIS-Downscaling of climate change projections GIS & RS Research Assessment • Land degradation assessment & mapping Mapping Mineral & petroleum exploration • Geoscience applications Image time-series analysis • Land use/land cover change Mining & quarrying Spatio-temporal land change mapping Geosciences information analysis Heavy metal concentration modelling Peri-urban growth • Human-environment interactions Multi-criteria evaluation • Land degradation assessment & mapping • Water resources Quantity, quality, distribution Land change projections • Climate Change & Variability • Soils Impacts on agric & food security • Geoscience applications • Land use/land cover change Palaeopedology, Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction • Human-environment interactions • Water resources • Soils

  5. 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

  6. THANK YOU akinyemif@biust.ac.bw tirivarombos@biust.ac.bw

  7. Studentship programme in GIS/RS research for MSc & PhD theses

  8. 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) Organised by the USAID/BIUST funded LDIMapping project

  9. GIS/RS in community service Web mapping applications for the Palapye sub-district http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/?appid=47b31ecd5930432fb4efa182b30608a0

  10. Links • Land degradation web mapping application http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/?appid=47b31ecd5930432fb4efa182b30608a0 • Biust web pages • http://www.biust.ac.bw/ • http://www.biust.ac.bw/index.php/science-departments/earth-enviromental-sciences • USAID-BIUST funded land degradation project • http://servircatalogue.net/Product?product_id=90

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