1. Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)
GIS/Remote Sensing Programme
Prof. Felicia Akinyemi
Earth & Environmental Science Dept.
BIUST
MESA SADC Training
14-18 March 2016
NUST Campus, Windhoek

2. Academic programmes studying GIS/RS
Enhance academic programme/curriculum with MESA training materials )
Category
Course code & title
Programme Offering
Credit
Type
Semester
Pre-requisite
Undergraduates
GIS/RS courses
ENVS 305: Geographic Information Systems and Databases
BSc Geology,
BSc Environmental Science, BSc Earth & Environmental Science 3
Core 1
none
ENVS 302: Remote Sensing in Earth and Environmental Sciences 2
ENVS 305
ENVS 404: Applied Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing
BSc
Environmental Science
Core/Elective
ENVS 302, ENVS 305

3. Academic programmes studying GIS/RS…
MSc & PhD by research (Postgraduate)
Category
Course code & title
Offering
Credit
Type
Semester
Pre-requisites
Postgraduate
MSc
GIS/RS courses
ENVS 522: Environmental modelling with GIS
MSc Environmental Science 4
Core 2
ENVS 305 or equivalent BSc GIS course
ENVS 552: Environmental Remote Sensing 3
Elective
ENVS 302 or equivalent BSc RS course
Courses applying GIS/RS
ENVS 413: Environmental field mapping and reporting/Internship
BSc
Environmental Science, BSc Earth & Environmental Science 1
ENVS 302, GEOL 306
Other courses in Geology, Hydrology utilise GIS/RS

4. GIS & RS Research Land degradation assessment & mapping
Climate Change & Variability
Human-environment interactions
Geoscience applications
Land use/land cover change
Water resources
Soils
Climate Change & Variability
Early warning system for food security
Impacts & adaptation
GIS-Downscaling of climate change projections
Mineral & petroleum exploration
Mining & quarrying
Geosciences information analysis
Geoscience applications
Land change projections
Peri-urban growth
Spatio-temporal land change mapping
Image time-series analysis
Land use/land cover change
Human-environment interactions
Multi-criteria evaluation
Heavy metal concentration modelling
Water resources
Quantity, quality, distribution
Impacts on agric & food security
Soils
Palaeopedology, Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

5. Potential areas of collaboration
MESA services of interest
Flooding
Drought
Agriculture
Collaboration
Enhance academic curriculum with MESA training materials
Collaborative research e.g. drought assessment, water resources assessment, agriculture and climatic change impacts
Product validation
Internships for students
In-service training for NFPs

6. THANK YOU

7. Studentship programme in
GIS/RS research for MSc & PhD theses

8. Academic programmes studying GIS/RS…
Short course/training programme
Object-Oriented Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change Detection, Modelling and Land Degradation Mapping.
26 January – 6 February 2015 (10 trainees including Council staff)
Organised by the USAID/BIUST funded LDIMapping project

9. GIS/RS in community service
Web mapping applications for the Palapye sub-district

10. Links
Land degradation web mapping application
Biust web pages
USAID-BIUST funded land degradation project