GIS Training: Delegation from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan visits the RLI

2^nd June 2022 | Wind turbines, energy transition, RLI: A research trip brought the participants of a delegation from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI). This was the start of the five-day study tour of the researchers from the Aral Sea region in Germany. The visit is part of the module series of a GIS training, the first two modules of which were conducted by the RLI Off-Grid Team in February and March in Uzbekistan, jointly with the American University of Central Asia.

About 20 researchers and decision makers from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan were guests at the Reiner Lemoine Institute last week on May 23. Already in February and March, Catherina Cader, head of the RLI research unit Off-Grid Systems and Karoline Gerbatsch from the same research unit conducted module 1 and 2 of this GIS training in Uzbekistan within the framework of this RLI project. The delegation’s visit now followed up on these modules, thus concluding the last module of the GIS training program.

At the RLI, participants presented individually developed case study projects that they had created as part of the GIS training project. After the Kazakh and Uzbek guests at RLI also learned about geospatial data and earth observation tools for use in renewable energy projects, there was then energy transition to touch. The goal of the other stops was to learn about research where the GIS knowledge learned can be applied in practice.

The group visited Feldheim, a district of Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg, Germany’s first and so far only energy self-sufficient town, including a wind turbine.

Other stops on the trip included the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Gasometer in Oberhausen and the Living Planet Symposium in Bonn, the world’s largest Earth observation conference, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA).