Nashon Adero- Geospatial and Systems Modelling Expert (Dr.-Ing.)
- Lecturer at Taita Taveta University
Nashon Adero
- Geospatial and Systems Modelling Expert (Dr.-Ing.)
- Lecturer at Taita Taveta University
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Introduction
Nashon Adero is a university lecturer and geospatial expert in Engineering & Mining Surveys, Resources Engineering, and Geoinformatics (GIS & Remote Sensing). His research explores the application of geospatial & system dynamics models to strategy and policy design for sustainable development. He's a published author and thought leader on topical issues in the geomatics-environment-society nexus, including infrastructure and economic services. He's been a journal reviewer for Elsevier since 2007
Current institution
Taita Taveta University
Current position
- Lecturer
Additional affiliations
June 2014 - present
Various
Position
- Group Leader
Description
- Developing spatial frameworks, implementation plans, and leading field surveys and FGDs for policy and technical decisions.
June 2014 - October 2014
OSL
Position
- Technical Quality Assurance Manager - GIS User Needs Assessment for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands in Kenya
Description
- Developed and implemented the spatial framework for integrating the needs of all categories of stakeholders into the intended GIS-based Knowledge Management Centre
September 2011 - April 2012
Position
- Group Leader
Description
- Integrated statistics from questionnaire surveys with spatial data on locations surveyed to map (using GIS) varying levels of service delivery, as reported by users and service providers (water, sanitation, housing, energy,education, health and ICT).
Education
January 2017 - December 2019
October 2004 - September 2006
November 1995 - July 2000
Publications
Publications (49)
Poverty is increasingly identified as an urban phenomenon despite the promise that urban areas hold as the centres of economic and social progress. There is a need for knowledge on how the spatial network design, a signature of urban areas, is associated with poverty. This paper addresses this need by combining conventional theory-driven and emergi...
This module has been prepared to address the urgent need in Africa for modern, practice-oriented and locally relevant training of surveyors and engineers to be engaged actively in surveying and mapping related to mining and geosciences. The contents have mainly drawn on the author’s experience in Kenya as a tunnel surveyor and university lecturer o...
LINK TO FULL BOOK: https://bit.ly/3sGP8yu
Youth unemployment is a growing global problem. According to the International Labour Organization estimates, more than 73 million youth aged 15–24 were unemployed in 2015. The number continues to rise. Home to the world’s youngest and fastest growing population, currently rising at 2.49% annually, Africa...
In an era of mineral-driven energy transition, the largely untapped mineral reserves in Africa are gaining global attention. Kenya, presently featuring Africa's most modern mining law, has set a high target to increase the mining sector's contribution to the GDP from barely 1% currently to 10% by 2030. Despite regulatory reforms and advances in Ear...
Based on a scientific approach involving 481 interviews, GIS analysis, stakeholder consultative meetings (FGDs), and laboratory tests of water, soil, tailing, and fish samples, this policy paper reveals fresh findings using evidence-based and data-driven facts on mercury's toll on the artisanal miners in Migori County, Kenya. Within 100 m of the mi...
Project Design for Geomatics Engineers and Surveyors, Second Edition, continues to focus on the key components and aspects of project design for geomatics and land surveying projects with the goal of helping readers navigate the priority issues when planning new projects. The second edition includes new materials on surveying and UAV, and it is tho...
This policy-oriented paper presents fresh findings from primary data on the perceived competition of interests and posture of the European Union and China as they engage with Africa in three key areas: trade, investment, and development cooperation. It is a product of the survey and mathematical modelling of the perceptions of more than a thousand...
A baseline model was developed after which model calibration, sensitivity analysis, and validation were carried out. The results showed a reduction in CO2 concentration by approximately 36 ppm between March and December 2020 inclusive. The model of CO2 concentration established a rebounding trend following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. The e...
Kenya is at a critical transition stage in her basic education system, calling for evidence-based adaptation of conventional approaches to be responsive to new realities in a technologically advancing post-pandemic world. This study focused on the critical transition stages for learners in primary school, just before they join secondary school in K...
Background
African indigenous vegetables are important for food security and nutrition, and income of the poor farm households. In the era of COVID-19, they are critical for boosting people’s immunity. Unfortunately, both production of and trade in these vegetables is likely to be severely affected by the pandemic.
Methods
This study examined pote...
Data revolution in the context of big data has seen emerging earth observation services and technologies providing open and analysis-ready data or decision-ready data, such as the continental Digital Earth Africa (DEA). These recent developments inspire the elevation of spatial data as a strategic asset for impacting the science-policy interface fo...
Widespread concern on the state of the environment and the adverse impacts of natural and anthropogenic influence on ecosystems advances the need to determine the drivers of change and map them at scale so as to monitor their environmental impacts. Gully erosion remains a critical concern worldwide. Overgrazing, mining activities, farming and defor...
Background: This article discusses the approach to the implementation of the project for the extraction and the methodology of preliminary processing of the obtained data with the aim of centralized accumulation for collective multipurpose use of the databank on the example of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by air transport for a give...
This study examined and modelled the cross-country spread of the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in Africa and outside Africa, finally converging on Kenya as the country of interest. A review of the models widely used to calibrate policy and strategic responses confirmed the suitability of statistical models for predicting the spread o...
A summary interview on the new book on COVID-19 (2021): The Future of Africa in the Post-COVID-19 World
Phase I of the implementation of “The University of Ideas – ACCESS Idea of 2020” has been completed successfully by meeting the goal of conducting a nationwide youth skills and employment survey across Kenya for 437 youth in the 18–35 age bracket. The survey covered the period March 5 – April 5, 2021. Overall, the youth survey revealed key insights...
This project was undertaken as part of the EMPOWER Good Governance Programme (2018 - 2020), empowering TU Bergakademie Freiberg doctoral students from developing region to acquire project leadership skills and create impact in their home countries. The fieldwork was conducted in Kenya, involving rural and urban schools as well as public and private...
The Future of Africa in the Post-COVID-19 World is a timely unputdownable book on Africa, a continent whose strategic position in the nexus of emerging global megatrends and complex development challenges can only receive increasing attention with the disruptive COVID-19 global pandemic.
This book is a wellspring of thought-provoking ideas, facts,...
LINK TO FULL BOOK: https://bit.ly/3sGP8yu
We demonstrate from available evidence that Africa has largely been successful in her multilateral approach to containing the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The African Union (AU) has been engaging the G20 countries in the multilateral approach to containing the pandemic. The Africa...
LINK TO FULL BOOK: https://bit.ly/3sGP8yu
In this study, the abundant COVID-19 data generated since early 2020 justified the choice of statistical modelling to conduct data-driven mathematical simulations based on the best-fitting equations (R2 of at least 0.995). The models were calibrated using time-series COVID-19 data for selected countries th...
The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has expedited the need to build resilient food systems for securing collective and sustainable food futures. It may be too early to accurately quantify the effects of COVID-19 on the various sectors of the economy in sub-Saharan Africa because the first case in Africa was only recorded on February 14...
Climate change is inherently a wicked problem. Wicked problems have been characterised as those social system problems which are ill-formulated with confusing information in addition to having many clients and decision makers with conflicting values, leading to confusing ramifications in the whole system. The COVID-19 pandemic fits this description...
The main efforts of modern geoecology focus on various aspects of monitoring the state of the natural environment within the sphere of anthropogenic impacts on raw materials complexes and on determining the irreversible level of adverse impacts and consequences of natural disasters in the absence of effective tools and systems for early forecasting...
Motivated by the need to enhance the precision of land use/land cover classification for mining environments challenged by rapid anthropogenic and natural changes, we analysed multispectral Sentinel 2A satellite data using four different classifiers: Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Tree (RT) and Random Fore...
Motivated by the need to enhance the precision of land-use land-cover classification for mining environments challenged by rapid anthropogenic and natural changes, we analysed multispectral Sentinel 2A satellite data using four different classifiers: Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Tree (RT) and Random Fore...
Motivated by the need to enhance the precision of land use/land cover classification for mining environments challenged by rapid anthropogenic and natural changes, we analysed multispectral Sentinel 2A satellite data using four different classifiers: Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Tree (RT) and Random Fore...
Nurturing indigenous capacities for culture-centric innovations: a cross-sectional study
The paradox of skewed emphasis in basic education pedagogy, with more attention going into developing areas that are not key to innovation, is the crux of the matter explored by this cross-country survey. Kenya and similar countries have important lessons to draw from this paradox, with a view to reviewing the approaches and mix of learning activit...
The cost of doing business in the East African Community (EAC) is very high relative to other regional blocs. The poor state of regional transport infrastructure and sub-optimal mix of transport modes contribute substantially to this unfavourable fact. This paper used comparative indicators to assess the performance of transport infrastructure in t...
KIPPRA recently shared with stakeholders the results of a pilot study on metropolitan governance. This took place during the Metropolitan Service Level Mapping and Social Accountability Summit held at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies on 21 st June 2012. Stakeholders came from all the 15 local authorities in the wider Nairobi and its neighbourin...
The continuing decline in lake water levels is both a concern and daunting challenge to scientists and policymakers in this era, demanding a rethinking of technological and policy interventions in the context of broader political and socio-economic realities. It is self-evident that diverse factors interact in space and time in complex dynamics to...
The continuing decline in lake water levels is both a concern and daunting challenge to scientists and policymakers in this era, demanding a rethinking of technological and policy interventions in the context of broader political and socio-economic realities. It is self-evident that diverse factors interact in space and time in complex dynamics to...
The cost of doing business in the East African Community (EAC) is very high relative to other regional blocs. The poor state of regional transport infrastructure and sub-optimal mix of transport modes contribute substantially to this unfavourable fact. This paper used comparative indicators to assess the performance of transport infrastructure in t...
The trend of urbanization and population growth has exerted excessive
pressure on natural capital, with scientific evidence showing an
overshoot beyond sustainable limits. Ensuring ecologically sustainable
cities and metropolitan regions with a high quality of life is a prime
development goal, in Kenya and worldwide. The proportional
contribution o...
A system dynamics model for Lake Victoria was developed to explore the dynamic scenarios of lake and lake basin degradation and the required policy responses.
Questions
Questions (11)
Thus, Geomatics is a broad, interdisciplinary field that integrates the science, technology, and art of acquiring, analysing, interpreting, visualising, sharing, disseminating, and applying spatially referenced data and information across different landscapes and timelines. It is key to organising, perceiving, interpreting, and anticipating spatial developments and geolocation-based activities across diverse landscapes and time horizons. Geomatics encompasses specialised subfields, such as geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and land administration—drawing on mathematical, computational, and engineering foundations to derive insights from geospatial data. It also addresses relevant legal, societal, and ethical considerations to ensure effective communication and responsible use of spatial information.
Geomatics/Geospatial Engineering is an applied branch of Geomatics that deals with the technological and spatial aspects of design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and management of accurate and precise measurements, as well as the analytical and decision-support models that underpin geodata-driven solutions on, above, or below the Earth’s surface.
This link has my key ideas on the post-COVID challenge for scientists and researchers to pursue cultural reset for a more effective restart on a new collaborative front that involves multiple disciplines, geomatics being key: https://medium.com/@hopadero/covid-19-and-the-transdisciplinary-future-of-disease-governance-badaefef58c7
My take has been: a #map is a selective abstraction of reality on a chosen #surface to #scale using a standard mathematical reference model of the Earth which, for the Earth's portion being represented, best preserves the key feature of interest (size/shape/direction/distance). Any modification?
It can be argued that the dominant approach to education in most countries does not inculcate in students, from early stages, the innovative skills we need in the 21st century's amazing era of digital revolution/ the Conceptual Age. Reading and writing dominate the early stages, yet skills in scientific inquiry, creative arts, spatial thinking, and seeing the big picture (systems thinking) also need to be introduced early and progressively using curricular and extra-curricular activities to ensure that we get graduates who can innovate locally relevant solutions. Referring to your country, are these skills being ingrained from the early stages of learning? What would you recommend to improve output?
It can be argued that the dominant approach to education in most countries does not inculcate in students, from early stages, the innovative skills we need in the 21st century's amazing era of digital revolution/ the Conceptual Age. Reading and writing dominate the early stages, yet skills in scientific inquiry, creative arts, spatial thinking, and seeing the big picture (systems thinking) also need to be introduced early and progressively using curricular and extra-curricular activities to ensure that we get graduates who can innovate locally relevant solutions. Referring to your country, are these skills being ingrained from the early stages of learning? What would you recommend to improve output?
These three terminologies can be confusing. Please shed more light.
