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GIS-Training at Guyana Sea Defences
by Ruben Vargas Franco

  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools have since long been praised as very useful
(regarding topics such as urban planning, resources management, and hazard and risk assessment)
due, among other reasons, to their data integration flexibility, strong data analysis, processing and
visualization capabilities allowing “rapid” and efficient generation of information, which could be
used to support decision-making process. However, the strong emphasis put on the tools
(software-hardware) makes it easier to very often lose sight of the complex planning process
behind a successfully implemented GIS. No matter how well suited a software package is or how
powerful a processor can be, their actual suitability to meet the needs of a specific project is
solely defined throughout a careful planning process and definition of the information needs.

During the GIS training the participants are working on the following topics:

  • Planning for a GIS, answering questions such as:
    What do we need a GIS for?
    How would the use of a GIS system improve the overall performance of the project?
    What type of information should be delivered by the GIS?
    What are our data requirements?
  • Setting up the GIS database: introduction to conceptual and physical design
  • Data analysis and processing: from source data to processed data
    (spatial and non spatial operations)
  • Data integration

The main goal of the training is to emphasise the importance of an elaborate planning process
as the key to a successful implementation of a GIS.

The second objective of the training is to further develop specific GIS “hands-on experience”
of the workshop participants.

An impression of the Training:
 

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 Ruben Vargas and the GIS Team during the first day


Agnes, Sharon, Andrea and Liu
Kester and Ryan

In the Training Programma Computer room 1


 
Discussing with team members

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Roland Harte


Analyzing old aerial photographs for coastline changes over the years
           

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The GIS Training Team:

  • Ms. Agnes Dalrymple (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Ms. Shanomae Eastman (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Mr. Daniel Duncan (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Mr. Alain Lee (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Mr. Roland Harte (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Kester Hinds (Ministry of Public Works)

  • Ms Cynthia Ofokansi (Guyana Sea Defences)

  • Mr. Ryan Alleyne (Road Administration Department)

  • Ms. Sharon Jackson (Guyana Energy Authority)

  • Andrea Mohamed (Environmental Protection Agency)

  • Mr. Ng-yuen Cheung Liu (Guyana Lands&Surveys Commission)

 
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