April 29, 2025
Short Course on Remote Sensing and GIS in Climate and Water Management
Course Overview
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of Remote Sensing and GIS in climate monitoring
and water management for water professionals. Throughout the training course, participants will
master the use of mapping frameworks essential for processing, analyzing, and visualizing
geospatial data, machine Learning use in prediction, and advanced application of Remote Sensing
and GIS tools using Python, R, and Google Earth Engine.
What to Learn
• Fundamentals of GIS: Start with the basics— GIS interface, data types and sources,
different GIS tools, Georeferencing, geodatabase handling and visualization, map
projections and layout etc.
• Applications of RS-GIS in Climate and Water Sector: Learning principals and integration
of Remote Sensing and GIS in the geospatial realm – planform analysis using satellite
images, use of different platforms and techniques in advanced water sector applications,
such as, flood extent estimation; land use and land cover detection; crop identification;
water and vegetation indices calculation; and climate change monitoring using modeled
Data. The participants will engage in handling geospatial data, surface hydrologic analysis,
assessing rainfall data, digital image processing, including planform analysis, classification,
and prediction of land-use patterns, using online platforms to analyze cloud-based
Remote Sensed data, visualizing global climate projection datasets including bias
corrections.
• Hands-On Experience: Engage in practical labs and projects designed to reinforce the
concepts covered in lectures. The participants will be able to apply this practical application
in their working fields in the water and environmental sectors.
By the end of the course, the participants will have a robust understanding of RS-GIS
application in Water Management and Global Climate data handling, specifically tailored to
geospatial analysis and visualization.
Registration and Certification
The training course will be offered for 5 days, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM. The interested participants
must register to enroll in the course. Upon completion of the course, the participants will be
awarded certificates.
For details: Please see the Programme Schedule
Application Deadline: 10th May, 2025
Apply Online: Fill out the application form here
Notification: The first 25 selected applicants will be contacted via email (shortcourse@iwfm.buet.ac.bd) for registration.
Registration Fee: BDT 20,000 (to be paid by 15th May, 2025 for confirmation after selection)