Mr. Richard Adade, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Centre for Coastal Management, Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), has embarked on a one-month internship programme with the Environmental Data Centre (EDC) at the Coastal Institute of the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the United States.

The URI EDC over the years has built institutional and professional relationships with UCC’s Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) in Ghana through USAID funded projects.

Mr. Richard Adade in one of the laboratories of University of Rhode Island 

This initiative is a component of the ACECoR staff capacity development programme, financed by the World Bank.

The objective of this training is to enhance his skills in utilising modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems and tools for processing, analysing, visualising, and disseminating spatial data within the context of coastal management and marine spatial planning.

Mr. Richard Adade being assisted by an instructor at University of Rhode Island to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 

The knowledge and skills acquired through this training are expected to improve research at the Centre and enhance ACECoR's Environmental spatiotemporal data management capabilities.

Source: Africa Centre of Excellence on Coastal Resilience