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.
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
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
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.
- 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
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
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
- Integrating Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (Climate Analogue)
- GIS based approaches for adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
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: +254 732 776 700 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Participants should be reasonably proficient in English. During the trainings, participants should come with their own laptops.
The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.
Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us through Mobile: +254732776700
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• All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
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Lengo kuu la kozi hii ni kuongeza uwezo wa wafanyakazi wa kiufundi wanaohusika katika Uchambuzi wa Usalama wa Chakula, Uchambuzi wa Hali ya Hewa na Kilimo kwa kuwapa uelewa wa matumizi ya habari ya anga na uchunguzi wa Dunia (EO) kama chombo cha kuunganisha maarifa juu ya mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kilimo na usalama wa chakula kwa njia ya maana na ya ubunifu. Kujifunza kuhusu GIS na Remote Sensing: Kuelewa dhana za msingi za GIS na Remote Sensing katika Uchambuzi wa Usalama wa Chakula, Dhana za msingi za mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, na Msaada wa Uamuzi wa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, Kilimo na Usalama wa Chakula - Kutumia habari ya GIS katika kupanga hatua za FS kupitia uchambuzi wa nafasi ya vigezo vingi - Tathmini ya upatikanaji wa data ya nafasi na kuelewa umuhimu wa miundombinu ya data ya nafasi (SDI) kwa kushiriki data na mashirika yanayohusika katika mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kilimo na usalama wa chakula. - Tumia GIS na RS kwa kubuni utekelezaji wa mifumo ya onyo la mapema la kiwango kikubwa - Tumia zana za ushirikiano wa GIS (PGIS) wakati wa tathmini katika ngazi ya jamii - Tumia data ya uchunguzi wa mbali na mbinu za usindikaji wa picha ili kufuatilia viashiria vilivyochaguliwa vya mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kilimo na usalama wa chakula - Tumia simu za rununu kukusanya data wakati wa tathmini za uwanja na tafiti - Kubuni na kutekeleza miradi yao ya GIS ambayo huunganisha data ya uchunguzi wa mbali na ufahamu wa uwanja wa GPS. - GIS mradi kubuni na kuanzisha - Vyanzo vya data GIS kwa ajili ya mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kilimo na usalama wa chakula - matumizi ya msingi ya GIS programu - kuunganisha data kutoka vyanzo mbalimbali katika GIS - kutumia GPS handheld kwa ajili ya mkusanyiko wa data shamba - uchambuzi geospatial kwa ajili ya kilimo na usalama wa chakula - Mapping maeneo ya mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa - Mapping maeneo ya ukosefu wa usalama wa chakula - Remote Sensing katika mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa, kilimo na usalama wa chakula. - Utangulizi wa Remote Sensing - Matumizi ya Remote Sensing na picha uchambuzi programu - Ufafanuzi wa picha - Utafiti wa mabadiliko - Athari za mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa juu ya kilimo na usalama wa chakula (Matumizi ya GIS katika utabiri wa hali ya hewa) - Jibu kwa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa: Mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa analogi chombo - Usimamizi wa mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa juu ya kilimo na usalama wa chakula - Mfumo wa sera ya kimataifa na kitaifa kwa ajili ya kushughulikia mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa; UNFCCC; Kyoto sera na sasa ndani ya GIS na Remote Sensing katika kilimo - Matokeo na ramani - Characterizing udongo spatial kutofautiana - Site-specifi - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa chakula - Utafiti wa usalama wa mazingira - Utafiti wa usalama wa mazingira - Utafiti wa usalama wa mazingira - Utafiti wa mazingira Unaweza pia kuipeleka mahali unapoipenda. Kwa maswali zaidi, tafadhali wasiliana nasi kupitia simu: +257-723-767-767 au barua pepe: firstname.lastname@example.org. Wakati wa mafunzo, washiriki wanapaswa kuja na kompyuta zao za mkononi. Ada ya kozi inashughulikia masomo ya kozi, vifaa vya mafunzo, vikombe viwili vya mapumziko, chakula cha mchana, na ziara za utafiti. Makao hupangwa kwa ombi. Kwa ajili ya reservations, wasiliana nasi kupitia simu: +2542776700 au barua pepe: e-mail@example.com malipo lazima kuhamishwa kwa FineResults Research Limited benki kabla ya kuanza mafunzo. Ujumbe wa barua pepe: jina la kwanza, jina la mwisho, na jina la utani: @example.org - Maombi yote ya kufuta lazima yapoke kwa maandishi. • Mabadiliko yataanza kutumika tarehe ya uthibitisho wa maandishi kupokea.