GIS and Remote Sensing in Land Cover Land Change Analysis

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INTRODUCTION

Land use and land cover change has 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 will therefore acquire hands-on skills in 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.

DURATION

5 Days

COURSE 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

COURSE OUTLINE

Module1:

Information

Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing in land use/cover change

Land cover/use change concepts and frameworks

Drivers of land cover/use change

Classification System for the Mapping of Land Use and Land Cover

GIS project design and interpretation

GIS and Remote Sensing data used for land use/cover change

Understanding Sensor/Platform Systems for remote sensed data

Exercise I: Handling spatial information I :( Using Quantum GIS Software and SAGA GIS).

Module 2:

GIS data sources, data collection and integration techniques for DRM

Geo database Creation

Satellite image data sources for land use land cover.

Task I: GPS/mobile phone GPS for land use land cover data collection using Open Data Kit (ODK).

Activity: GPS/mobile Course Tour.

Exercise II: Handling spatial information II: GPS, GIS Integration using GIS/RS software.

GIS and RS for identification of extent of land use land cover

Land use and land cover mapping

Module 3:

Pre-processing land cover land use image 

Radiometric and geometric image correction

Temporal normalization

Imagery Geo-coding and geo-referencing

Image enhancement

Thermal bands for use in land cover classification

Land use/cover classification

Signature development

Supervised Classification

Unsupervised Classification

Classification Accuracy assessment

Change detection

Determining Change in Specific Land Cover Types

Multi -criteria analysis for land use suitability site selection

Module 4:

Assessment of land use land cover

Assessment of spatial distribution of land resources

Monitoring of infrastructure

Monitoring dynamic changes in urban growth

Trend Analysis for Land use

Cluster analysis

Terrain analysis

Cost benefit analysis

Modeling and simulating land use

Module 5:

Online Publishing of maps and GIS output

Working with Google Maps and Fusion Tables

Publishing into other web based platforms

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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