The Mona Institute of Geoinformatics at the University of the West Indies of Jamaica. MonaGIS serves as the GIS centre for the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. MonaGIS serves the campus by providing GIS courses for various departments and participating in research activities. Its areas of activity include natural hazards and the environment.
It provides advanced environmental and hazard mapping and modelling services using one of Jamaica’s largest GIS datasets. Some of these services include terrain modelling, coastal hazard mapping, hazard analysis, modelling and simulation and hydrodynamic models.
In collaboration with UWI’s Disaster Studies Unit (DSU), Mona, we continued to promote awareness of natural hazards in Jamaica through various presentations to governments, conferences, insurance companies, academic and educational institutions, the media and the general public.
The Mona Geoinformatics Institute of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. MonaGIS serves as the GIS centre for the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies. MonaGIS serves the campus by providing GIS courses for various departments and participating in research activities. Its areas of activity include natural hazards and the environment. It provides advanced mapping and modeling services for coastal hazard research programs (sea level rise, marine submersion) and coastal change monitoring.
The CARIB-COAST project, through its objectives of monitoring coastal erosion, assessing risks and monitoring extreme events, is fully in line with MonaGis’ missions, promoting the capitalisation of data on natural hazards and enabling collaboration with numerous institutions involved in these themes in the Caribbean.
