GEGIS and GIS Visit(Third year)

Visiting the industries in the field of Geomatics and GIS is one of the facilitating factors for students undertaking the course in any of the universities.Students get to understand more what they learn theoretically and may be practically.Ramani Geosystems was the chosen firm where the students had great experience of what is done outside the campus.The firm offers professional land surveying, aerial photography, aerial LiDAR and GIS and mapping services which are the key areas of study for the Third Year students.
A lot was demonstrated to the students including flight planning,image registration,image enhancement,digitization,triangulation and 3D modelling just to mention a few.Having covered most of these areas in the previous lectures it was a great day of experiencing the tangible part of the course.Geomatic and GIS are two very wide fields of study.They are composed of very many divisions and are mostly related in application.

Shisha

Shisha is among the latest form of youth and

Middle-age group form of clubs-best-narcotics

having gained popularity in the recent past

It is mainly enjoyed in groups from a shared pipe and

Most people have come up with theories that shisha is much better

than cigar. But for me i wouldn’t trade any of the two for the other, they are all equally harmful

Shisha is in no way

beneficial or less harmful to one's health

compared to cigarettes.

 Here's just a few reasons why:

1. Myth: The water is said to act as a filter

and thus the smoke we inhale is supposedly

"clean". Well, that's not true. In fact water

moisture just makes the smoke less irritating

and gives us the impression that the smoke is

cleaner and makes it less irritating.

Coupling in Campus

 A relationship happen between two parties of which mostly its

between man and women. This happens

because everyone needs someone to love

and fall in love with. This feeling is complicated

to be explained by just using words.

The funniest bit of it; it happens naturally and cannot be

forced. However, today,coupling has become

an issue because it is always been related

to social problem.

Actually, coupling is

something that we might not be blamed of

because it is very subjective and we cannot

define it as a problem. It’s a

culture among students in higher education

institutions either government or private

institutions. 

Landsat 8 Launch

       Here is advancement in the GIS world. With the Landsat Mission that has been available for about four decades, Scientists and researchers in the GIS field have benefited from the services available on the Landsat system. This has helped us understand our home “Earth” better by monitoring the changes both in natural and human activities. This has been possible by assisting the people to view the world beyond what the human sight can perceive. The Landsat 8 is much advanced than its predecessors having high precision and modern sensors. Using the Landsat 7 and Landsat 8, more scientific tasks will be achieved as the two can now provide the required data wherever needed. The Landsat mission will document various phenomena such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires.

Control points Marking,Nyeri County

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology was selected as an ample location to lay a pillar marking the control points by the Survey Of Kenya in a project set to mark new control points in the whole country in the year 2013.The pillar erected at the DKUT fields is of order one and is inter-visible from the pillar of order zero located at the top of Nyeri hill. 

This is to provide a better platform for surveyors who might be interested in carrying out survey tasks around Nyeri as there is a number of control points now available and the surveyors can use the one that suite them better . The pillar was erected on Tuesday 28^th  May,2013.

First semester departmental prayers

         Today 21^st May 2013 marked the day for the departmental prayers for the academic year 2013/2014.This is an activity conducted at the beginning of every semester within the Institute of Geomatics,GIS and Remote Sensing.Its a dedication of our life,friends and the department to the Almighty God.The event took place in the best way with the best students turnover ever recorded in this department.The beginning of every semester is very crucial and one can determine how the semester prevails just by your starting plan.Present in the prayers meeting were the representatives from the department,the director and the department students.This serves to bring the students together as one community and also help bridge the relationship between the students and the seniors in the department.

Attachment period photos

 <<During vertical control practicals

                                    a group participant>>>

 <<<< levelling the theodolite

                                         Group 1 at work>>>

  <<<Group 6   

                        Resting after practicals>>>

     <<<<Story time after work            

                                     holding a staff vertical>>>>

     <<<After work            

                                             survey equipments>>>

      <<<Using ERDAS--Remote Sensing          

                                         In a GIS lab>>>

INTERNAL ATTACHMENT COMPLETION

        The attachment commenced well on 21st January 2013 and lasted 8 weeks.All the required sectors of the attachment have been covered and reports submitted to the supervisors(department).The faces to be covered included the GIS,Remote Sensing and survey(vertical control,horizontal control and Cadastral survey).As we come to the end of the internal attachment,we happy to say that the attachment has been a success both to the students and to the department since all the activities have been concluded.
        At the end of every attachment,a comprehensive report indicating all the activities covered during the attachment period is compiled and handed in to the supervisor for marking.The students expresses their gratitude to the department for the continued support/assistance during this period and making the session all a success.Having done all this the students are free to leave for their destinations(homes/domicile).
        25th March,2013 marks the end of the internal attachment in Dedan Kimathi University of Technology(DKUT).Wish all the participants of this session a happy holiday,a fantastic Good Friday and Easter holiday.see you all in May 2013.

SURVEY PRACTICAL-internal attachment

  The 3rd face of the internal attachment commenced well with vigor and high expectations by the students to conduct their Survey practicals.The first week was leveling using theodolites.The students were to level one(1) kilometer of loose bound roads around the DKUT and carry out the analysis and produce final measurements of the roads and their respective diagrammatically represented outfits.All the groups were to start at the same point(common Datum) but take different routes.There were a total of six groups conducting the task.The first day kicked off by marking the control points along routes taken by each group.The control points were to be used to the next day to carry out measurements on the roads.During measurements,the staffs were located at intervals of ten meters and the staff readings recorded.Between two control points computations were conducted to ensure error-free results and if bugs were detected,measurements between the two control points were repeated.These activities were conducted in three days and on the fourth day the students embarked on measuring and leveling the sewer lines around the campus.These marked the week one activities in survey.
Problems encountered
1.Very harsh climatically facilitated conditions(sun-burns to many students)
2.Time wastage-leading to repeating the tasks
3.incorrect measurements-due to mirage because of the sun(bright light)