We started to congregate at 8:45 in the courtyard outside UEA Village accommodation. Then, we moved to the School of Environmental Sciences where, firstly, we had a lecture about GIS. I benefited from the lecture a lot. I now know that GIS (geographic information system) is if I can term it, the mother of GPS. GIS is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present all types of geographically referenced data.
I learnt that GIS can be used in a variety of fields such as: archaeology, geography, remote sensing, land surveying, public utility, management natural resource management, environmental contamination and navigation. Therefore, GIS is a really helpful tool to give information for informing decision making.
Then we went to the University's Flume Laboratory and Virtual Reality Suite for hands-on work in two very different world-leading research facilities. We got to know in this lab that when we stuck a pipe into the sand vertically, there will be like a scour around the pipe. Also, we made and experiment to examine if there are different results when we stuck various pipes of different diameters into a sand bed. The results of the experiment is that the pipe with the biggest diameter would result bigger scour around it and would fall down lastly if we increase the speed of the wave. This is one idea of saving the coast from erosion.
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