DEPARTMENT OF GEOSPATIAL AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY RANKED POSITION 2 IN THE BEST PERFORMING TEACHING CATEGORY

The Chair , Department of Geospatial and Space Technology Prof. Faith karanja received the trophy and certificate on behalf of the Department.award

In the staff performance category, the Top three (3) Non Teaching staff with exemplary rating all came from the Department of Geospatial and Space Technology;

GiS In Sport

This event is planned in order to enable the Geospatial Engineering Students interact socially outside the classroom environment, loosen up as well as showcase talent on the pitch.Gis in Sport

The University of Nairobi wins Kenya Space Agency Research Grant

The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) has announced the winner of the Kenya Space Agency research grant for the FY 2021/2022. This award stems from the research chair programme. KSA set aside Ksh 10 million (USD 89,245) for the award of Research Chairs (RC) for FY 2021/2022. The RCs were for 3U Nanosatellite Model Development, Land Cover Data Collection Application Development and Small-scale Crop Mapping Application using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML).

WORLD GIS DAY

The Geospatial Engineering Students’ Association and the Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, in partnership with SpaceTech GeoConsultants, has organized the GIS week (15th -17th November) whose culmination is the Annual GIS Day on 17th November. This years’ theme is “Role of GIS in Enhancing Food Security and Climate Resilience”. GIS week presents a series of planned activities as outlined below;

• Mapathon

• Workshops & Trainings

• Keynote speech

• Presentations on the topic

• Panel discussions

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BSC GEOSPATIAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS CARRYING OUT ATHI BRIDGE DEFORMATION MONITORING

Deformation monitoring is the systematic and comprehensive measurement and tracking of the alteration in the shape and the dimensions of a civil engineering structure such as a bridge, dam and/or building; for this case Athi River Bridge deformation   which may be induced by applied loads of vehicles on transit and pedestrian use of the bridge. Such monitoring is important since data acquired can aid in further computation, deformation analysis and predictive maintenance by the relevant authorities.

Bsc Geospatial Engineering carrying out route survey of part of Kibwezi ,Kitui Road

The Geospatial Engineering students carried out a route survey of part of Kibwezi Kitui road.

Route survey typically serves earth works such as road construction, pipelines, oil and gas and other corridors and other engineering works.

Some of the outputs for these surveys include profiles, cross sections, road traverses, and route topographic maps.

STATIC GNSS OBSERVATION AT DWA ROCK

Geospatial Engineering Camp is a mandatory exercise that the students undertaking Bsc Geospatial Engineering have to fulfill  before graduating.One of the task is the static GNSS obsevation for establishing control of the existing major Network consisting of atleast four points;Camp,DWA,KALUNGU,KILAWA and Mbusyani.

This particular task was performed on the third day of the camp 7th of July 2021; the geographical coverage was a considerably large area with the control points located in considerably far apart, as long as 30 kilometers.