The UWI is a regional university of higher education learning and research, which has been charged with the mission of advancing education and creating knowledge through excellence in teaching, research, innovation, public service, intellectual leadership and outreach in order to support the inclusive (social, economic, political, cultural and environmental) development of the Caribbean region and beyond. The UWI has its Centre Headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica and operates from the following Campuses: the Mona Campus situated at Mona in Kingston, Jamaica; the Cave Hill Campus situated at Cave Hill in Barbados; the St. Augustine Campus situated at St. Augustine and Debe in Trinidad and Tobago, the Five Islands Campus situated at St. John’s in Antigua and Barbuda and the UWI Global Campus, which serves seventeen countries within the Caribbean region inclusive of the four aforementioned territories. The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, established in 1921 was the basis for the founding of the UWI, St. Augustine Campus in 1960. Over the last few decades, in addition to Agriculture, the UWI added several programmes in Engineering, Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Science and Technology, and Sports.
The University of the West Indies offers academic programmes, training workshops, continuous professional education, and professional services. These include:
Certificate program in Geographic Information Systems, BSc Geomatics Engineering, BSc. Geography, MSc. MPhil. And PhD Geoinformatics
Capacity Building Training courses in Earth Observation, GIS, GeoAI, Cartography, Aerial and Terrestrial Remote Sensing
Professional development training for Geomatics Engineers, Urban Planners, GIS practitioners
Building awareness through outreach activities at the local, regional and international levels;
Professional support to public and private sector organisations through development and consulting projects
The UWI has a large number of faculty members with expertise in Earth Observation, Geospatial Information Sciences and Hazard-specific expertise with. Our staff listing is categorised Faculties and Departments. See https://sta.uwi.edu/faculties/ for the different faculties. Many of our experts are located in the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, and the Faculty of Science and Technology.
The University of the West Indies has two facilities that support the provision of geospatial data and space-based information:
The Geospatial Observation Centre that supports the download, processing and analysis of Satellite imagery for Latin America and the Caribbean region
Dr. Olabanji Aladejana Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management Faculty of Engineering UWI St. Augustine, EMR, St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
