Assignment Name: |
Country: |
Acquisition of
Tobacco and Eucalyptus fields through Satellite Image
interpretation |
Uganda |
Location within country: |
Positions provided
by WE Consult: |
Arua
district |
Project Manager,
Remote Sensing specialist, GIS/GPS specialist, Assistant
GIS/GPS expert |
Name
and Address of client: |
No. of staff
months: |
Funding
agency: |
British American
Tobacco Ltd
Plot 69/71 Jinja road
Kampala |
6 |
BAT |
Start
Date
(Month / Year) |
Completion
Date (Month/ Year) |
Total
contract price of the assignment |
07/05 |
01/06 |
35,000 US $ |
Name of Associated
Firm(s), if any: |
Name of Senior staff
of WE Consult involved: |
Nieuwland Geo-information,
The Netherlands |
S. Dieleman (Project
Manager, GIS specialist)
E. Bunnya (GIS/GPS Assistant |
Narrative description
of project: |
The project aimed
to acquire tobacco fields and Eucalyptus plantations
though satellite image interpretation. Groud truthing
was carried out in the field, database setup of ground
truthing information. Image (SPOT) interpretation has
been carried out with ILWIS software in order to establish
links between spectral folders of tobacco fields and
eucalyptus plantations in the satellite image with the
ground truthing information collected in the field. |
Description of services
provided by your staff: |
- Procurement of SPOTsatellite image
- GPS mapping of tobacco fields
- Database setup of ground truthing data
- Thematic mapping
- Image interpretation (Nieuwland Geo-Information)
- Quality control
- Project management
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