DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR NATIONAL BORDER CONTROL

ABSTRACT African countries are increasingly facing daunting tasks of managing their borders in ways that secures their territorial sovereignty/integrity, ensures that they are bridges rather than barriers for cross-border cooperation and regional integration, prevents illegal entries and exiting of people and goods while allowing easy movement of goods and people, allows relatives to visit their kin while keeping away criminals (such as drug and human traffickers. terrorists, etc.), and facilitates tourists to easily cross while keeping out terrorists. The challenges facing African states to manage their borders are compounded by globalization that is tearing down traditional borders through advancement, in technology and transformation of international relations. At the moment crimes are committed without crossing borders and huge amounts of goods are sold through.cyberspace. This research addresses the problem of monitoring this border by developing an automated image analysis system using a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with camera/sensors for monitoring of national borders.