Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) Training for Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal

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1 A Training Report Advanced Hands-on Laboratory Training Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) Training for Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal submitted to University Grant Commission, UGC Sano Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal submitted by Central Department of Geography, CDG Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal July, 2017

2 1. Purpose Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an efficient tool for managing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying geographic information. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize information in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, tables, reports, and charts. It is a computer-based system to aid in the collection, maintenance, storage, analysis, output, and distribution of spatial data and information. GIS and spatial analyses are concerned with the location of real world features, their relationships as well as properties and attributes of those features. The Central Department of Geography (CDG) has been implementing RS and GIS training as a part of capacity building of Geography faculties of different campuses of Tribhuvan University (TU), TU affiliated campuses and community campuses so that the faculties' knowledge and skill on Rs and GIS has been enhanced and RS and GIS courses has been running effectively in some associated campuses. The institutional capacity of the campuses has been enhanced. CDG is a leading department of T.U. Nepal, with mandate for academic, research and training activities with adequate faculty members and facilities. This department has already conducted similar training for graduate teachers and students of other central departments of TU such as department of Environmental Sciences, Botany and Geology. RS and GIS training is designed to provide knowledge and practical skills of RS and GIS in general and its application in Geography courses such as Natural resource management, Population and Settlement, Regional and Urban planning, Geomorphology and Climatology etc. The course intends to improve the capabilities of institutions and individuals to teach, research and apply RS and GIS in geographic analysis. 1

3 2. Relevance The Central Department of Geography (CDG) is one of the leading Departments of Tribhuvan University involved in teaching, research and demand based Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) services. It offers different courses including Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for the students of Post Graduate level. The RS and GIS service is primary related to policy formation and development oriented practical works in the field of environment, population, settlement studies and planning. The department has provided RS and GIS capacity development for different Central departments of Tribhuvan university, government authorities and International Organizations. The department is well staffed with fourteen qualified and experienced professionals including two female teachers. The Department has a well equipped GIS Laboratory with twenty-three PCs, thirteen digitizers, eight laser printers, including three color printers, one color scanner and one draft-master plotter as well as RS and GIS software programs. The department has well equipped RS/GIS laboratory with advanced facilities of multimedia LCD projector and screen and class room space. Besides RS/GIS as academic course, it offers GIS Training for professionals from different institutions. RS and GIS has become standard course of most of the university courses around the world. RS and GIS courses are introduced into Tribhuvan university's Bachelor and Master's degree courses of Geography as a tool and methods for geographical analysis and research. RS and GIS facilitates translating the real world situation relating to geographical dimension through integrating related information sources. With the advances in computer application, information communication technology and digitalization, the use of RS and GIS as research and analytical tool is on the rise with the greater reliability on its analytical capability and volume of information generation. 3. Objective The objective of the training was to raise the capability of participants to integrate RS and GIS knowledge and skill to plan, design, and implement Bachelor's level RS and GIS teaching, research and application effectively. Another objective was to impart knowledge and practical skills of GIS/RS in general and its application at different levels. 2

4 Besides, to enhance the capabilities of institutions and individuals by applying GIS/RS as a tool. The training ultimately would lead to effective and efficient technical support to the associated institution i.e. campuses. The participants shall be able to utilize learnt knowledge and skills based on the assessments and enhance the capacity to use the GIS in the their respective institutions. 4. Human Resource The Central Department of Geography (CDG) has seven faculty members with RS and GIS teaching and research background. Among these seven, three has formal master's degree (MSC and MTech) in RS and GIS and four other members have formal training in RS and GIS. They are involved in different RS and GIS related research and training programs. The technical training classes was carried out by four faculty members. The overall administration was headed by the Head of the department. The overall technical coordination of RS and GIS training was coordinated by Prof. Umesh Kumar Mandal. other resource persons involved were Prof. Dr. Pushkar Kumar Pradhan. Reader, Dr. Shobha Shrestha, Lecturer Chhabi Lal Chidi and Lecturer Ser Bahadur Gurung. Similarly, logistics and other management component was handled by CDG office administration. 5. The Training Program The training was carried out from 04 to 27 June to 01 July 2017 in the GIS Laboratory of Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu. The training was scheduled for total of 35 working hours starting from AM to PM for 5 days. The five day GIS training program was divided into three sessions: Opening session, Technical Session and Closing session. Technical session was further divided into three different sessions namely, remote Sensing session, GPS session and GIS session. Session and topic detail is attached in Annex 1 under training schedule. Opening session of the training program chaired by Head of the CDG and Assistant Dean of Institute of Humanities and Social Science (IoHS) Mr. Tara Kanta Pandey joined as A Chief Guest. CDG faculties, training resource persons and participants started with self introduction. 3

5 The technical session was divided into three sections Remote Sensing, GPS and GIS. The technical started with expectations of participants from the GIS training. The technical session covered concepts, hands-on practices and field data collection using GPS. Each participant was provided a desktop (participants also brought their laptop) with RS and GIS program installed and hand-on exercise on RS/GIS data of Butwal, Chitwan Ilam and Nepal were conducted. Participants were also provided with two separate structured hands-on Remote Sensing and GIS training manual to carry out practical exercises. Remote sensing and GIS manual are attached separately. At the end of training program, informal closing session was carried out. Opening session of the training program chaired by Head of the CDG and Dean of Institute of Humanities and Social Science (IoHS) Prof. Dr. Shiva Lala Bhusal joined as A Chief Guest. At the end of the closing session, Certificate was distributed by the Chief Guest. Sample of the distributed training certificate is attached as Annex 4. One of the participants on behalf of all participants expressed their views on the training. It was suggested a advance GIS training module based on current training for the and appreciated both the technical and logistics part of the training. It was acknowledged that the training has enhanced their skill and emphasized the efficiency of GIS tool for Geography teaching. Regular institutional support from the center for continuous practice of RS/GIS was also emphasized. Glimpses of training program are provided in Annex Participants The participants of the training program were geography faculty members of central department and different campuses of Tribhuvan University (TU) where Geography or Geography education course is offered. TU affiliated campuses and community campuses. The training was participated by total of 21 participants from ten different departments and campuses which included 2 Central Departments and eight campuses of Tribhuvan University inside and outside of the Kathmandu Valley. Among total participants, there was only one female participant and 20 were male participants. List of participants is provided in the Annex 2. 4

6 7. Post Training Assessment/Feedback from Participants A training feedback form was filled by each participant and submitted. The training program included a post training assessment by participants on course content, usefulness, organization and structure, delivery and hands-on practical exercise, session/time allocation, and overall organization including logistics. More than 70 percent of the participants evaluated the course content, resource persons logistic support as adequate whereas 45 percent thought time duration was not enough (Figure 1). Similarly, more than 70 percent were satisfied with the explanation and concepts. answered that Training feedback form is attached as Annex 5. Figure 1: Training Evaluation by participants (different aspect of Training) Most of the participants had an expectation of familiarization with RS, GPS and GIS tool and be able to prepare maps using GIS. According to their evaluation this expectation was fulfilled. The detail of the participants expectation is provided in Figure 2. 5

7 Figure 1: Training Evaluation by participants - Fulfill of Training Expectation Similarly, the participants also provided suggestions for improvement for future training programs. The major suggestions were: Regular Refresher RS/GIS training Need of specific theme based RS/GIS training Advance RS/GIS training (longer duration e.g. 2 weeks) 6

8 Annex 1. Training Schedule Training program on: Organized By: Hands-on Laboratory Training Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) for Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal Central Department of Geography, CDG Tribhuvan University Date: 27 June - 01 July, 2017 (13 17 Asadh, 074) GIS Lab Central Department of Geography Venue: Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal OPENING SESSION Date: Tuesday, 27 June, AM ACTIVITY PRESENTER TIME Master of Ceremony Self Introduction Opening Welcome Remarks Remarks Program Highlight Opening Remarks Remarks Mr. Chabi Lal Chidi CDG/All participants Prof. Dr. Tarakanta Pandey, Assistant Dean, FoHSS Prof. Umesh Kumar Mandal GIS/RS - Prof. Dr. Narendra Raj Khanal, Head, CDG Background and Training objectives- Dr. Shobha Shrestha Prof. Dr. Tarakanta Pandey, Assistant Dean, FoHSS UGC representative Vote of Thanks and Closing Prof. Dr. Narendra Raj Khanal BREAK Technical Session 7

9 Hands-on Laboratory Training Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) for Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal 27 June - 01 July, 2017 (13 17 Asadh, 074) Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal Day Session A Topic Resource Person 09:30-10:00 Registration Participants Opening Session All June, Tea Break Expectations of Participants GIS RS and Geography Participants Introduction to ArcGIS (Demo) SS 13:30-14:00 Tea and Snacks 14: Introduction to GIS: Familiarization with the tool (ArcGIS Basics) Familiarization with the tool (ArcGIS Basics) Contd.. PKP CLC CLC/SS June, Introduction to RS: Familiarization with the tool (ERDAS Imagine Basics) Tea Break Geo-reference Toposheet, Map to Image registration Tea and Snacks Image Visualization, Image Information (Spatial, Spectral and Radiometric) UKM/CLC UKM UKM June, Image Processing: Image mosaic, Layer Stack, Subset Tea Break Image Enhancement: Spatial Filter, Stretching Tea and Snacks UKM UKM Image Ration: Vegetation Index UKM 8

10 4. 30 June, July, Image Classification UKM Tea Break GPS Basics (Field + Hands on) Collecting Data from the Field and Converting GPS data to GIS (basics of Spatial Data conversion) Tea and Snacks Preparing Data for Mapping: Integrating Data from secondary sources and mapping (census data) SBG Map Design and Map Preparation in ArcGIS CLC Tea Break Spatial Analysis: Analyzing Geographic Relationships contd.. SS Tea and Snacks Spatial Analysis: Analyzing Geographic Relationships SS Closing Session and High Tea All SS Resource Persons: PKP: Prof. Dr. Pushkar K Pradhan, UKM: Prof. Umesh Kumar Mandal, SS: Dr. Shova Shrestha, CLC: Chhabi Lal Chidi, SBG: Sher Bahadur Gurung. 9

11 Annex 2. List of Participants and Attendance 10

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13 Annex 3. Glimpses of Training Program 12

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28 Annex 5. Evaluation Form Hands-on Laboratory Training Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) for Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal Central Department of Geography, CDG Tribhuvan University 27 June - 01 July, 2017 (13 17 Asadh, 2074) Training Evaluation Sheet by Participants Aspects of Training Adequate (A) Inadequate (IN) Explanation Suggestion for improvement Time Duration Course Content Logistic Support Resource Person Training Materials If any relevant issues What was your expectation form the training? Whether training fulfill your expectation or not. Yes/No, if no give your reason 27

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30 Annex 6. Proposal Submitted to the University Grants Commission Appendix 4.10: Application Form for Laboratory Training (Category 2) UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION Sanothimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal RT-2 APLLICATION FOR CONDUCTING LABORATORY TRAINING (Advanced Laboratory Hands-On Training) A. Organizing Institution (Host Laboratory) A1. Name of Institution: Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University A3. Mailing Address: Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal Po Box: 8613, Kathmandu A5. Head of the Institution: Name: Narendra Raj Khanal, PhD Position: Professor & Head Phone: Mobile: A7. Faculty Members/ Laboratory Experts A8. Previous Training Programs Conducted A2. Affiliated University (if any) A4. Contact: Mr. Gyanu Raja Maharjan, Head Office Assistant, Phone: Website: A6. Focal Person: Name: Umesh Kumar Mandal Position: Professor Phone: Mobile: Education Full Time Part Time PhD with Postdoc PhD 3 MPhil Masters with Thesis 4 Masters without Thesis Training Program Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) forclimate Risk managementfor CDRMP/UNDP district officers GIS and RS Training on Service Location Planning and Road development for Road Department engineers. GIS and RS Training on Service Location Planning for DoLIDARofficers No of Participants Date September, 2015 September, March, 2003 GIS and RS Training on Locational Planning 30 September, 29

31 at District Level for LGP/PDDP/UNDP district officers 2002 B. Facilities Available at the Laboratory B1. Laboratory (Space, Training Capacity): Remote Sensing/ Geographic Information System (RS/GIS) laboratory 23 fully equipped latest desktop computer with full RS/GIS software, other related programs and power backup B2. Equipments: Desktop and Laptop computers, GPS, Ground Surveying equipments (Theodolite etc), printers projectors, drawing instruments. Soil testing equipments (UV/VIS spectrophotometer etc.) B3. Software: RS/GIS software - ARCGIS, ARCInfo, ERDAS Imagine, ILWIS, IDRISI, ALDUS Freehand SPSS, other documentation and presentation programs B4. Reagents, Consumables: Printer color cartridges, etc B5. Lecture Facility (Projector, Printer etc) Multimedia, LCD Projector and screen, LCD TV Screen, Color printers, Laser printers, scanner, photocopy machine etc. C. Information About the Training C1. Full Title of the Program Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) Trainingfor Geography Teachers Teaching in Bachelor level Campuses of Nepal C2. Duration (Days) 5 days (35 working hours) C3. Individual Sessions (add rows to add more sessions) Title of the Session Duration Venue Trainer 1. Opening Detailed CDG Lab Umesh Kumar GIS Concepts and RS Concept in Mandal, Detailed ShovaShresta, GPS and Using GPS (theory and practical) Training Chhabi Lala Chidi, program Sher Bahadur 2. GIS: Introduction to ArcGlS (Demo and Basic hands on) Gurung, Guest lectures 3. RS: Introduction to ILWIS (Demo and Basic hands on) 4. RS: Image Enhancement/Digital Image Processing 5. GIS: Data Processing, Exploring Resource data 6. Feature Extraction, Image Interpretation and Classification 7. GIS: Data Analysis 30

32 8. Designing and Preparing Maps, Hands on Practical 9. Map Preparation, Exporting Maps to report 10. Certificate Distribution and closing D. Participants (Number and Selection) D1. Faculty Members D2. PhD Candidates 20 Includes 3 PhD Candidates among those 20 D3. Masters/MPhil Students D4. Bachelors Students D5. Selection of Participants (describe Selection Criteria and Priority) Faculty members teaching Bachelor level geography in different TU campuses, TU affiliated campuses and community campuses. E. Plan of Action (Proposal) (8-10 pages) Use the following format 1. Purpose of the Program 2. Relevance of the Program 3. Organizing Committee 4. Tentative Schedule 5. Potential Participants 6. Selection Criteria and Priority 7. Major Method and Technology used in the Training 8. Laboratory Facilities 9. Detail of Training Sessions 10. Detailed Budget 11. Administrative and Logistic Support 12. CVs of Proposed Trainers 13. Acceptance Letters from the Proposed Trainers F. Co-Sponsor (if any) F1. Name of Co-Sponsor None F2. Contribution by Co-Sponsor G. Cost G1. Estimated Total Cost G2. Requested Funding from the UGC 31

33 NRs. 1,86, (One hundred eightysix thousand and four hundred Nepalese rupees only ) NRs. 1,76, (One hundred seventysix thousand and four hundred Nepalese rupees only ) H. Document Checklist H1. Before the Program (Indicate by ) H2. After the Program (submit later) 1. Completed Application Form 1. A Cover Letter signed by the Organizer 2. Plan of Action (Proposal) 2. A Narrative Report of the Program 3. CVs of Laboratory Instructors 3. A Copy of the Certificate Distributed 4. Acceptance Letters from the Instructors 4. A Copy of Daily Attendance 5. Program Brochure (if any) 5. Evaluation by Participants 6. Document Related to Participants 6. Financial Report 7. Photographs I. Undertaking by the Applicant I hereby declare that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief, and that I understand it is made for use as evidence in pertaining procedure and is subject to penalty for false statement and deception. The penalty may include refunding of the full amount disbursed in connection with this award and other individual and institutional restrictions for future support. Signature Name of the Head of Institution: Dr.Narendra Raj Khanal Position: Head and Professor Institution: Central Department of Geography Address: Kirtipur, Kathmandu Date: 19 February 2017 Official Seal 32