NDLI: Towards an increasing awareness and use of remote sensing and geographical information systems in veterinary medicine in Nigeria

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Olutayo, B.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Veterinary Public Health & Preventive Med., Ibadan Univ., Nigeria (Olutayo, B.)
Abstract	Although Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been employed for decades for diseases surveillance, prediction and intervention programs, its awareness and application to Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria is a recent phenomenon. Over the past couple of years, a number of veterinarians at the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria have pioneered the use of GIS to study the Epizootiology of Trypanosomosis, African swine fever, Tuberculosis and Transhumant Pastoralism in Nigeria. This has been in collaboration with GIS personnel in the University's Department of Geography and the private sector. At Government level, the Federal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development recently sponsored five veterinarians (including the author) to the first leg of an intensive training on the application of GIS to Veterinary Epidemiology. The intensive four-week course took place at the Regional Center for Aerospace Survey (RECTAS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and is part of the capacity building aspect of the Nigeria component of the Pan African Program for the Control of Epizootics (PACE). RS/GIS is not yet in the curricula of any of Nigeria's five (5) veterinary schools, neither is there as yet any unit/center devoted to the application of RS/GIS to veterinary Medicine in Nigeria. Although the theme of the 2001 Congress of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association was "Advances in Information Technology: Impact on the Veterinary Profession", only one paper, dealt with the application of RS/GIS to Veterinary Medicine. To promote increased awareness and use of RS/GIS in Veterinary Medicine, multilateral assistance will be required in the training of personnel and equipping of Veterinary RS/GIS units.
Starting Page	2962
Ending Page	2963
File Size	1323570
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780379292
DOI	10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294646
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-07-21
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Remote sensing Information systems Geographic Information Systems Personnel Diseases Surveillance Public healthcare Collaboration Geography US Government
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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