Building the capacity of land administration experts, at different levels, is one of the activities of the work package “Capacity Building” in Edu4Geo Project. Accordingly, a tailor-made training delivered to the experts who have been selected from federal to Wereda Levels. Fifteen experts from the relevant stakeholders and five experts from Debre Markos University in total 20 trainees participated in this three consecutive days program. From the ministry of Agriculture, and Urban Infrastructure, there were two participants whereas; from Amhara Land Bureau one expert participated. From Zonal Land Administration offices, four experts attended the training, and the remaining eight experts were from different Weredas.
The training has been held from December 16 – 18/2025 and the main areas of the training were processing of digital aerial images using Erdas Imagine Software: Interior orientation, exterior orientation, GCPs, generation of digital surface modes and digital orthophoto, ortho mosaicking, as well as feature collection applications. Besides, the data collected in 2024 at the Building College of Addis Abeba University, using Aerial Unmanned Vehicles (UAVs), were processed using Agisoft Metashape software. The main contents of the training were definition of coordinate points for camera and ground control points, Import of images and coordinates of ground control points, measurement of all GCP available on images, generation of dense point cloud, model built up and texture, DEM generation, and orthophoto generation.
The training was highly appreciated by the trainees for filling the knowledge and skill gap of them which is very essential in their day to day activities of geo-data generation and processing. They were very thank full for University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Debre Markos University for organizing such a fruitful training and for Austrian Development Cooperation for funding this particular training and for its unreserved support in the capacity building of land administration sector in Ethiopia.