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Revised MSc Geographic Information Science and Technology (MSc GIST) Approved by NHCE (02nd May 2024)

The Department of Geomatics and Land Management is pleased to announce that the Revised MSc Geographic Information Science and Technology program has received approval from the National Council for Higher Education (NHCE). The revised programme will commence in the upcoming semester of the academic year 2024/2025. For further details regarding the Programme Structure, please click Programme Structure. To apply, click here.

Call for upcoming summer school (Deadline 31st May 2024)

For more info, click Call for Application UCAS International Summer School 2024：Global Change and Ecological Health

Successfully Completed ERASMUS + Workshop on the Use of Satellite Datasets for Analysis of Atmospheric and Climate Observation (2nd -12th April 2024)

The workshop was funded by the Erasmus+ mobility programme, which aims to strengthen academic cooperation between the two partner universities by sharing know-how in natural disaster management using Geographic Information Science and Systems. Dr. Shahnawaz, a visiting faculty member from ZGIS at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Austria, facilitated the workshop.

The workshop aimed at building the capacity of university-level students and young faculty to use advanced techniques for analysing atmospheric and climatic datasets. Upon completing the training, participants gained ‘hands-on’ experience using Geospatial analysis of satellite-generated atmospheric and climatic datasets to assess various natural hazards and manage the environment. Click me to view photos of the workshop.

The workshop attracted 60 participants, who mainly included

  1. Graduate students (master’s and PhD) and a few undergraduates drawn from the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT), the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), and the College of Natural Sciences.
  2. private sector
  3. Government institutions such as local government such as Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD), National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), UNOPs

Successfully completed Web and Mobile GIS short course  (1st to 5th September 2018)

The course aimed at  teaching students the fundamental theories and technologies for disseminating and
processing geographic information using the Internet and the World Wide Web. Andrea Nascetti from KTH Sweden facilitated the course. The course content comprised of the following;

  • Basics of computer networking and web technology
  • Client/server computing and the distributed component framework
  • Open-source Internet mapping software and standards for distributed GIS services
  • Design and implementation of dynamic web maps and geographical analysis
  • Mobile data collection using GNSS and other sensors
  • Mobile solutions for capturing, storing, updating, analyzing, and displaying geographic information
  • Cloud-based processing infrastructures for geospatial big data analysis (i.e., Google Earth Engine, DIAS)