ABSTRACT
Kenya is bordered on the north by Ethiopia, on the east by Somalia, on the southeast by the Indian Ocean, on the south by Tanzania, on the west by Uganda, and on the northwest by Sudan. The coast of Kenya was long dominated by Arabs and was seized in the 16th century by the Portuguese. The present-day boundaries between Kenya and its neighbors are a result of legal descriptions hashed out in negotiations and subsequent triangulation and boundary surveys. Kenya saw little prospect in adopting the proposal because its cadastral work was computed on Clarke 1858 and the Cassini projection. In 1972–1973 the Survey of Kenya, in conjunction with the US Defense Mapping Agency and the Directorate of Military Survey of the UK made the first experimental Doppler satellite survey in Kenya. Recently the Kenya Institute of Surveying and Mapping took GPS observations on existing control points.
