THE AFREF PROJECT

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ROLE OF REGIONAL CENTRES IN AFREF PROJECT
Presented by Dr. Wilber Ottichilo, (Director
General) Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources
for Development
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CONTENT

• REGIONAL CENTRES
• GENERAL MADATES OF REGIONAL CENTRES
• ROLES OF REGIONAL CENTRES ON AFREF
• RCMRD,BRIEFS

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REGIONAL CENTRES

• Established under aegis of UN-ECA
• RECTAS Western and Central Africa
• RCMRD Eastern and Southern Africa
• AOCRS Northern Africa

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General Mandate of the Centres

• Promote the use of geo-information technologies
  for sustainable development through
• - Awareness creation among decision makers
  (CODI-Geoinformation WG, Seminars, Visits)
• - Capacity Building
• - Advisory services (i.e. NSDI, AFREF etc)
• - Coordination and networking ( AFREF, UNEDRA,
  AFRICA-GIS, AARSE, ISPRS, ICA etc)

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Role of Centres in AFREF

• Coordination And sensitization
• Member states/regions
• Capacity building center
• To develop AFREF/GNSS training programs
• Provide advisory services to member states on
  AFREF requirements viz setting CORS systems
• Tracking centers
• Establish GNSS base stations-CORS as a
  contribution to AFREF/IGS network
• May need Hardware/software support
• Data holding centre
• Develop capacity, hardware/software may need
  international support
• Data processing centres
• Develop capacity.. Hardware/software need
  international support

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BRIEF ON RCMRD ACTIVITIES

• RCMRD was established in Kenya in 1975
• It is an Inter-governmental Organization.
•  
• Currently the Centre has 15 contracting member
  States namely
• There are 10 countries affiliated to the Centre
  are

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MISSION AND VISION

•   Mission To promote the standardization,
  harmonization and
• development of geo-spatial data and
  information and strengthen
• the capability and capacity of the member
  States in the use of
• geo-spatial information for sustainable
  development.
• Vision To become a Centre of Excellence in
  Geo-information production
• and management in Africa.

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OBJECTIVES

• Key Objectives
• To develop and constantly update harmonized and
  standardized land
• resources and urban development digital data
  and information
• infrastructure for the region, based on demand.
•  To develop regional early warning system for
  food security, environmental
• monitoring and disaster management using mainly
  satellite technology.
•   In collaboration with member States national
  institutions, undertake
• projects for creation of spatial information
  system suitable for
• development planning at regional and community
  levels.
•   Strengthen and harmonize the fragmented
  regional and African data using
• accurate geodetic GPS techniques and research
  into the field and data
• processing methodologies.

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OUR OBJECTIVES (Cont..)
  Develop capability and capacity in the
maintenance of surveying and mapping
equipment and offer advisory and maintenance
services to the member States.   In
collaboration with national and international
institutions, undertake research and training
in the application of geo-information in land
resources and urban development mapping and
assessment for sustainable development.
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Our Programs
RCMRD executes its activities through 4 main
Programs/Departments -   Remote Sensing and
Environmental Management -   Resource
Mapping -   Human Resources -   Engineering
Services - Information Technology NB. RCMRD
has 40 permanent staff (75 are technical) , 20
hired through Projects, and also retains a large
pool of consultants in the region whom it calls
upon on need basis.
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On-Going Programs/Activities
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Coordination Sensitization

• Coordinating role
• National/Regional/Member states
• Participation/coordination of AFREF steering
  committee meeting
• Coordinated hosted AFREF workshop during AARSE
  international meeting held in Kenya, Kenya
  national AFREF meetings etc
• Sensitization
• Workshops(AFREF presentations)
• Direct visits to member states
• During our training programs
• 3rd training programes at KISM sponsored by
  Government of Japan through JICA/GOK(AFREF
  presentations) ..draws regional participation
• Request from national states(Africa)

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Capacity building

• Short term training in GNSS technologies
• General and tailor made for general GNSS users(
  3 days)
• Differential GPS (10 days)
• AFREF Long baseline processing(15 days)
• AFREF background progress
• Geodetic network design optimization
• Establishment of CORS(hardware software)
• IGS data, products and contribution to IGS
  network
• Long baseline data processing
• One training course on AFREF data processing
  held in Kenya in April 2006

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Data tracking center

• One already established at RCMRD
• In the process of linking up with IGS

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Data Holding Analysis

• Capacity is available
• Human, space, hardware, stable fast internet
• Currently holding data for Kenya rift Valley
  monitoring project in collaboration with Survey
  of Kenya and Hokkaido University

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Our Contacts
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for
Development (RCMRD) P.O Box 18118, Nairobi,
Kenya. Tel [phone]/856313
1 Fax [phone] Email
rcmrd_at_rcmrd.org Website www.rcmrd.org Contact
Person Dr. Wilber Ottichilo, (Director General)
Tel [phone]
Email ottichilo_at_rcmrd.org