‘Cognitive Geomatics – Digital teaching to create awareness of intercultural differences in sense of place using Germany, South Africa and Kenya as case studies’ is part of the BadenWürttemberg-STIPENDIUM for University Students – BWS plus, a programme of the BadenWürttemberg Stiftung. The project schedule is from March 2022 to February 2025 with a financial capital of 140,000 €.
The university of Nairobi encourages the students wherever they go ,they should take time and give back to the community.
This year,the department of Geospatial and Space Technology choose to visit a children home in kilifi county during its trip to coast to carry out hydrographic mapping.In addition,the students encouraged the young ones to put more efforts and consinder taking Engineering course in the university.
The visit was aimed at familiarizing the students with industrial aspects of Hydrographic Survey, Satellite Techniques related to Geospatial Engineering and Nautical Charts.
During the visit, the 44 students attended a brief session at the Kenya Navy Maritime Operations Center where they were apprised by Captain Mwikali on Hydrography in the Kenyan context with a bias of its role in training and securing the kenyan waters..
The department of Geospatial and Space Technology always conduct this exercise ones in a year to the fourth year students before they begun their attachment.
Ninety percent of the people added to the planet over the next 30 years will live in African and Asian cities, and a large portion of these populations will reside in deprived neighborhoods defined by slum conditions, informal settlement, or inadequate housing. The four current approaches to neighborhood deprivation mapping are largely siloed, and each fall short of producing accurate, timely, and comparable maps that reflect local contexts. The first approach, classifying “slum households” in census and survey data, reflects household-level rather than neighborhood-level deprivation.
The first three launch attempts of the Transport 7 mission were called off due to unfavourable wind conditions.
Taifa-1 satellite was launched to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (a polar orbit synchronised to always be in the same fixed position relative to the Sun). SpaceX provides at least 3 launch opportunities to the sun-synchronous orbit under the Satellite Rideshare Program. These launch opportunities are affordable for satellite owners since the launch cost is shared amongst them.
Each year had a session with her that was tailor made to suit where they currently are in terms of course coverage, such that it had foundational concepts for our first years, and more precise content for our students in their final year.
Students were given ten minutes each to report on the progress,indicating the challenges they face and how they intend to mitigate them . The lecturers gave their recommedation and urged the students to make changes on areas corrected.The students were however reminded on the deadline for the final presentation which will be examinable.
On the 15th they had soccer match which was between 2nd years and 3rd years students whereby the second years won. There was also a soccer match between 1st years and 4th years and the 4th years won.
The Gognitive Geomatics Project workshop ,Satellite image Ground Truthing took place in the university of Nairobi towers on 15th February 2023.The workshop was lead by Prof.Dr.Gertrud Schaab from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences,Germany.
