A GIS or Geographical Information Systems captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to a location. A GIS is a method by which specialist mapping software  is applied to the areas of remote sensing, land surveying, aerial photography, photogrammetry, and many tools can be used together to make up the specific GIS solution that is needed for a specific project.

A GIS is an information system that integrates, stores, edits, analyzes, shares, and displays geographic information. GIS applications are tools that allow the user to create interactive queries, analyze spatial information, edit data, maps, and present the results of all these operations.

GIS is a powerful tool for collecting and collating datasets enabling consistency and continuity.  GIS is able to process varying types and amounts of data.  It allows the import of various monitoring data sets and statistical analysis of the data.

GIS technology can be used for resource management, asset management, archaeology, environmental impact assessment, urban planning, cartography, criminology, geographic history, marketing, logistics and other purposes. For example, GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times (i.e. logistics) in the event of a natural disaster, GIS might be used to find wetlands that need protection from pollution, or GIS can be used by a company to site a new business location to take advantage of a previously under-served market.

• Patterns of loss of biodiversity: Kenya forests
• Deforestation and land use change: Kenya forests
• Distribution patterns of flora and fauna
• Storing and querying large data sets
• Calculating home range and habitat use
• Mapping and modelling spatial phenomena (eg species distributions, deforestation risk etc)
• Working with communities to map resources and land-use

• Spatial Analysis
• Information Management
• Remote sensing and image processing technique
• 3D Digital Terrain Modelling
• GIS project life cycle and Management
• Training

• Threat maps i.e dangers to human settlements, poaching activities in the Masai Mara
• Spatial analysis of wildlife census data
• Wildlife sightings were transferred into GIS
• Migration corridors clearly identified
• Wildlife densities mapped in wet and dry season.
• Cluster analysis performed on poaching activities to show hotspots

• Land use classification of satellite imagery called LANDSAT 7 - land use types were identified and quantified for further analysis and decision making.
• Protected areas, Forestry and National Reserves were represented on maps, along with species and habitats, coastal processes and geomorphology

Wind Farm Development Proposals and Environmental Statements across North Wales and Scotland:

• mapping environmental constraints
• identifying local landscape characteristics for heritage assessments
• mapping bird flight path patterns
• mapping distribution of archaeological sites.

Zones of Visual influence was also produced from vantage points within the landscape for cumulative impact assessments

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Reporting

• area and volume of waters across a site that would be flooded
• Elevation data was used to extract different flood heights and the resulting flood outlines were mapped on aerial photographs.

GIS Consultant for Land-use planning for the Umbogintwini Industrial Complex, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

• Identified danger zones and other land use types for Emergency Planning