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4.1 UVERSEAS TRAINING
The first organised oversea training in photogrammetry beganin the fifties, when University
graduates who obtained degrees in subjects cognate to surveying were sent to the school of Mili-
tary Surveying, Newbury or to the University College, London for a Post Graduate Diploma
course in Surveying. The Photogrammetric content of the syllabuses of these institutions were
quite substantial and formed a solid background for officers who were interest
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mmetry.
However, formal training in photogrammetry at ail levels began in the early sixties when
officers of Survey Departments were sent to the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and
Earth Science (ITC) (formerty at Delft) Enschede, the Netherlands. The ITC offered training
programmes at the technician, engineers (now technologists) and the professional levels The
technician and technologists courses at the ITC are practically oriented while the engineers and
MSC levels are more theoretical. The ITC graduates and later, Diploma. in Photogrammetry gra-
duates of UCL London formed the early core of phtogrammetrists in the Nigerian Survey Depart-
ments,
Other institutions which contributed later to the training of Nigerian Photogrammetrists,
though not the least, are the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada and the Ohio
State. University Columbus, U. S. A. UNB's Surveying Engineering Department, the first of its
kind in North America, was toremost in the training of the first set of Nigerian graduate Survey
Engineers. In fact until very recently Nigerians had always constituted the largest percentage
of foreign under-graduate students at the UNB. The department also offers programmes at M.Sc.
and Ph.D. levels and many Nigerians had benefited from them. The Ohio State University U.S.A.
has also contributed to the education of Nigerians in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
through its post graduate programmes at the M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels.
42. . | . . LOCAL TRAINING
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing education in Nigeria started as part of curriculum in
surveying and geography. Nowadays, while photogrammetry still forms an integral part of surve-
ying education, training in photogrammetry is now available at all levels, while remote sensing
continues to be studied as part of Surveying, Geography, Geology, Forestry and Agronomy.
The technician training courses are offered in two institutions:
— Federal Survey Department Lagos:- Basic and Advanced Course. (equivalent to the ITC
Technician s Course)
— Economic Commission for Africa Regional Training Centre for Aerial Survey, lle Ife:
Operator s, Technician' s, Technologist and photo- interpretation courses certificate diploma
The technologist programme leading to Higher Nationa! Diploma is. offered at the Kaduna
Polytechnic. In 1985 the ECA Regional Training Centre lle-Ife started the Technologist Diploma
course in photogrammetr y.
Three Universities in the country: University of Nigeria, Enugu; the Ahmadu Bello Universi-
ty, Zaria and the University of Lagos, Lagos offer programmes for professional training in photo-
grammetry. The University of Lagos and University of Nigeria, Enugu run M.Sc. and Ph.D. cour-
ses, while. A.B.U. offers the M.Sc. course in phtogrammetry. The photogrammetric and surveying
programmes of the country's polytechnics and universities are documented in Ayeni (1984).
Inspite of these developments manpower training in Nigeria is grossly inadequate because of poor
research facilities and personnels in these institutions. There is the urgent need for better funding
of these programmes if the country is to meet training, locally, of the professionals needed in
both public and private mapping industries.
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