DGGCS Trains UPDF, UPF, ISO and ESO Intelligence Trainees In URBAN NAVIGATION

A team from the Department of Geography, Goe-Informatics and Climatic Sciences-Makerere University, conducted an Applied Intelligence Course In Urban Navigation training to security entities (UPDF, UPF, ISO and ESO) Intelligence Trainees. The 7 days intensive training took place at Kololo Impendence Gourds.


Professor.Yazidhi Bamutaze, addressing the trainees
Dr. Paul Mukwaya, addressing the trainees

Background: Urban NAVIGATION
Navigation can be defined as the process of planning an object’s position or trajectory using geometry, radio signals, etc. Therefore, navigation as a process, may involve estimating the object’s position on earth, and/or guiding it through the course so that the object reaches the target destination. The importance and relevance of navigation and associated technologies has grown manifold in the last few years, so much so that not only almost all of the modern day cars are equipped with navigation systems, even the cheapest mobile phones in the market now offer navigation technologies at minuscule costs. The availability of affordable hardware and associated navigation technologies has made it possible for an average consumer to benefit from these technologies. (Goel, 2021). This specialized course will concentrate on navigations with a special focus on urban areas.

The Course Partners:

School of Military Intelligence Security [SODIS] MIGYERA
The UPDF School of Military Intelligence and Security [SODIS} is an old school that started way back in 1987 in Kireka [Kampala} and it was shifted to Kalangala Islands from 1988-1993, and a year later moved from the waters to a land base at Kaweweta and Singo. It is from there that it found a settlement at Migyera in Nakasongola District in January 2020. The School has since trained Officers in various skills.

Department of Geography, Geo-informatics and climatic Sciences (DGGCS) – Makerere University
The Department of Geography, Geo-informatics and Climatic Sciences, one of the Departments within the School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University. The department offers crosscutting academic
programmes and research, combining the aspects of Human, Physical and Environmental Geography. Our research foci spans climate science, climate change and earth observation; Coupled human-environment systems, demography and development; disaster risk management and reduction and Urban and regional systems, transformations and sustainability. We are a highly networked Department working with several local, regional and international collaborators to address some of the contemporary issues of our time.