Research
Areas of professional focus at CDE
- Development of geospatial databases
- Spatiotemporal modelling (development of new models and concepts)
- Education in geoinformatics (University of Bern)
Projects
- Coping with Desertification Project (CODEP) Mongolia: National Desertification Monitoring System (NDMS)
- Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) Project in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania: Ethiopian Geographic Information System (EthioGIS) national modelling framework
- Capacity Development in Geoinformation Management, National Academy of Science and Academy of Agricultural Science, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
- National Spatial Data Infrastructure Project, Eritrean Mapping and Information Centre
- Capacity Building in Geoinformation Management, UN agencies and the government of South Sudan
- Sustainable Land Management Programme Eritrea (SLM Eritrea); Soil Conservation Research Programme (SCRP) Ethiopia; EthioGIS
Further professional interests
- Digital terrain modelling and visualisation
- Digital mapping and application development
Field experience
Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, DPRK, Sudan, Mongolia
Languages
German, English, French
