GIS and Remote Sensing in Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change

FineResults Research Services would like to invite you to take part in our upcoming workshops on Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing courses at our FineResults Services training facilities in Nairobi, Kenya.

Date                                                               Event

22nd to 26th February 2021                      GIS and Remote Sensing in Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change

5th to 9th April 2021                                  GIS and Remote Sensing in Agriculture Food Security and Climate Change

Click to Register: Physical class USD 800

Contact us: email: [email protected] or Cell phone (+254 759 285 295)

INTRODUCTION

The main purpose of the course is to enhance the capabilities of technical staff involved in Food Security Analysis, climate analysis and agriculture by providing them with an understanding on the use of spatial and Earth Observation (EO) information as a tool to integrate knowledge about climate change, agriculture, and food security in a meaningful and innovative way.

 

DURATION

5 Days

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the basic concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing

Understand concepts and main frameworks in Food Security Analysis

Understand concepts and main frameworks in Climate Change Analysis

Understand concepts and main frameworks in Agriculture

Understand the relationship between climate change, agriculture and food security

Apply GIS and Remote Sensing as Decision support tool for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.

Use GIS information in planning FS interventions through spatial multi-criteria analysis

Assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), for data sharing by organizations involved in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.

Apply GIS and RS for designing implementations of large scale early warning systems

Use participatory GIS (PGIS) tools during assessments at community level

Apply remote sensing data and image processing techniques to monitor select Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security indicators

Use mobile phones to gather data during field assessments/surveys

Design and implement their own GIS projects that integrate remote sensing data and GPS-based field information

 

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1

Key concepts and definitions

Introduction to climate change, Agriculture, Food security and their relationship

GIS for climate change, Agriculture and Food security

Introduction to GIS and R.S concepts in the context of climate change, Agriculture and Food security.

GIS project design and setup

Sources of GIS data for climate change, Agriculture and Food security

Basic use of GIS Software

Integrating data from different sources into a GIS

Using handheld GPS for field data collection

Geospatial Analysis for Agriculture and food security

Mapping areas of climate change

Mapping areas of food insecurity

Remote Sensing in climate change, Agriculture and Food security.

Introduction to Remote sensing

Use of Remote sensing and image analysis software

Image interpretation

Image classification

Change detection

 

Module 2:

The impacts of climate change on Agriculture and food security (Use of GIS in Climate Predictions)

Response to climate change: Adaptation and mitigation: the climate analogue tool

Role of climatic change detection on Agriculture and food security

International and National Policy Framework for addressing climate change; UNFCCC Kyoto protocol and existing local policies

 

GIS and Remote sensing in Agriculture

Yield monitoring and mapping

Characterizing soil spatial variability

Site?specific soil management: prescription maps

Grid sampling, management zones, realistic yield expectations

Remote sensing (RS) for site?specific management.

 

Module 3:

Assessment

Food Security Assessment and Analysis

The use of satellite imagery for food insecurity detection and recovery

Visualization of vulnerability information

Assessing food insecurity impact

Climate change sources of uncertainty and variation

 

Module 4

Global Positioning System (GPS) and Basic GPS skills

Types of GPS

GPS, GLONAS, Argos, and other data types and sources

Developing standard procedures and guidelines

GPS configuration, Capturing data from surveys

GPS data download and related tasks

Integrating GPS field data into the GIS database

 

Module 5

Public Participatory GIS and data collection using mobile phones

Participatory GIS methods

Participatory GIS and HVR analysis

Community-based climate predictions

Using GIS to Build hazard-aware and ready communities

Use of Mobile Phones for GIS Data collection in Assessment and Surveys

 

Case Studies:

Integrating Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (Climate Analogue)

GIS based approaches for adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

 

TRAINING CUSTOMIZATION

This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can also have it delivered your preferred location.

For further inquiries, please contact us through Mobile: (+254 759 285 295) or Email: [email protected] 

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

Participants should be reasonably proficient in English.  During the trainings, participants should come with their own laptops.

 

TRAINING FEE

The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.

 

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us through Mobile: (+254 759 285 295)

or Email: [email protected] 

 

PAYMENT

Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Limited bank before commencement of training. Send proof of payment through the email: [email protected] 

 

CANCELLATION POLICY

• All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
• Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.

 

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