As you all know, GIS (Geospatial Information Science) is an art and science commonly applied in our
today lives.We need GIS in almost of our daily activities. In order for this to
happen it should be practiced and researched on often. We as the Dedan
Kimathi University students usually come together and discuss issues concerning
GIS in our today's lives and share knowledge.
During the lastly held GIS BOOT CAMP organized by the GDEV
Committee members with support from the department , Institute of Geomatics,
GIS and Remote Sensing (IGGReS) , we had
to share more as the students and more so learn much about emerging issues in
the field of GIS.
Various issues where brought at hand and discussed on.The
audience got enough time to learn and appreciate more about GIS.
Various topics were covered during the boot camp where the audience got to learn more of what is in the field of GIS.Much thanks and
appreciation goes to the Fourth years for bringing on the know-how of GIS to most of the
audience.
These include:
1. Introduction to Open Source GIS Platforms (Data
integration between Desktop GIS and Web GIS)
2. Health
break and Social communications
3. Database
Systems and Web GIS
4. Health
break and Social communications
5. Mobile
GIS and Social developments
It was such a knowledge sharing event and special thanks to all those involved.
Here are some of the pictures from the event.
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| Photo Session after the Bootcamp |
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| Social communications session |
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| Capturing good moments |
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| The Boot camp organizers |
