Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Natural Resources Management

​This course ​description ​is indicative, and only for reference ​purposes. The course is not scheduled unless advertised in our calendar. If you are interested in this course​,​ or require a customized course​ that is similar to this​, please note that ​fees start from USD ​35,000 for a three-week course. This fee is for a customized course for ten or fewer participants. For additional participants, the fee is USD 3500 ​per participant.

​For these fees, the client may customize the course to the precise needs ​of the client's organization. Scheduling will be in consultation with the client.

Participants: Planners, managers applying remote sensing and GIS tools in planning and managing natural resources; technical professionals involved in the field of remote sensing and GIS.

Course Brief: This course aims to enable the participants to apply remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) tools and techniques needed in managing and applying in natural resources and forestry. The participants enhance their knowledge of geometric rectification and polynomial rectification, mapping techniques, change detection and GIS. The course is a combination of lectures and laboratory sessions with field visits to selected organizations applying RS and GIS, and towards the end, the participants prepare a report based on lessons learned from the sessions.

The course covers the following modules: fundamentals and remote sensing data, Geo-referencing of satellite data, mapping, change detection, and Geographic Information Systems Development. The course includes study visit program to selected organizations applying Remote Sensing/GIS tools and observe actual projects.

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