By KENNEDY KIMANTHIMore by this AuthorSome three counties have begun adopting the deployment of space technologies and geographic information systems (GIS) to facilitate planning and management. SPATIAL PLANCounties are obliged to prepare a 10-year GIS-based spatial plan which will be a component part of the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP). Different partners have donated satellite image and GIS software to help the three counties efficiently manage their resources such as forests, water, farmlands, minerals, wildlife and wetlands. According to the CoG, GIS is key in spatial planning and urban development, digitisation and management of land parcels, data records, automation of land services and land use zoning. REPLICATIONThis platform can easily be replicated in any of the 47 counties capturing different details including priority needs directly collected from residents of a particular county.

Source: Daily Nation May 15, 2019 06:33 UTC