In recent years, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as one of the most versatile decision making tools in the geospatial domain with increasing applications in new areas. Integrated application of these two techniques culminates in harnessing the natural resources with incredible speed and reasonable accuracy, even from inaccessible areas, to help the process of planning in climate change and food security for the integrated development of a region. They are widely used in monitoring, management, planning in diverse fields of activities, such as, sustainable development, infrastructure development, disaster management, environmental monitoring, Land use changes, resource inventory, rural and urban planning etc. Remotely Sensed data from Aerial Photographs and Satellites, combined with GPS serve as the basic database in GIS for multi-criteria decision making in several applications, viz., groundwater and mineral exploration, land use / land cover, wasteland management, inland water resources, mining, agriculture, forestry, coastal mapping and development, land records, health care, socio-economic, crime investigation etc., to name a few.
- Lecturer: TUMWESIGYE Wycliffe