Last week our colleague Michael Thiel gave an online course on Agricultural Land Use Mapping at WASCALs Doctoral Studies Program on Climate Change and Agriculture, which is based on the IRP/IFRA Campus in Katibougou, Mali.
The course content included theories on Remote Sensing and practical exercises on field data collection and map creation.
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