Increasing the knowledge base of future leaders of African Research Institutions on monitoring, maintaining, and restoration of soil fertility and plant growth in tropical cropland and forests.
This workshop aims at teaching how to plan and conduct soil sampling campaigns that can deliver significant spatial-explicit information on subsoils in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes with first hand examples from soil drillings being analysed during the seasonal school by the participants. Read more…
In this workshop you will learn about the required sample processing and sample measurements on a mid-infrared (MIR) spectrometer and get hands on experience with data management and analyses operating a MIR spectrometer. Read more…
The workshop provides training on access, processing, analysis, and interpretation of freely available spaceborne data for Eastern Africa. During the workshop the data will be used to teach on land use change detection, applied to show the dramatic land use change in the region since the 1990s. Read more…
This workshop seeks to present methodologies currently utilized for measuring the growth rates of the trees within the forest on a tree-by-tree and plot-by-plot basis. Read more…
This workshop aims to address the current technical capacity gap in designing and conducting green house gas measurement campaigns in Eastern Africa. Tools include customized gas collection chambers , an ultra-portable laser based GHG analyser and calculating GHG fluxes from GHG concentrations using a demo dataset. Read more…