GIS Projects

I have over ten years experience working with the application of Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing for environmental assessment, monitoring and research, GIS management, training and consultancy in the UK and in developing countries. Below are some of the projects I worked on:

Conservation and Monitoring

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

Wildlife Management

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

Environmental Planning & Development

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

Renewable Resources

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

Regeneration, Sustainable Development

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Reporting

Flood Risk Analysis

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.