Environmental Geoinformatics / Environmental Science and Engineering (PDF)

Climate Change using GNSS and altimetry satellites), which is employed to face the emerging challenges of the 21st century posed by increased extreme hydroclimatic conditions, e.g., severity and frequency of droughts in Australia and Greater Horn of Africa (GHA), and the changing monsoon characteristics in Asia and Africa leading to floods, and (ii) Mathematical Geosciences: Hybrid-symbolic solutions that delivers hybrid symbolic-numeric computations (HSNC), which is a large and growing area at the boundary of mathematics and computer science and currently an active area of research.
Professor John Kiema is currently the Director of Technical Services, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) having first served as Director of Remote Sensing, GIS and Mapping at RCMRD. He is also Associate Professor, Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi (Kenya). He obtained his BSc, MSc degrees in Surveying and Postgraduate Diploma (Computer Science) from the University of Nairobi (Kenya). He was awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS at Karlsruhe (Germany). He has published widely and supervised postgraduate degrees. He is the immediate past Executive Secretary of the Eastern Africa Land Administration Network (EALAN) and during his sabbatical leave in Rwanda he helped mentor and the first ever Land Survey graduates in the history of Rwanda. In his current post Prof. Kiema is in-charge of all technical activities at RCMRD including the SERVIR Project that is a Partnership between NASA, USAID, and RCMRD and Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) & Africa an initiative of the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU). Prof. Kiema also serves in the Steering Committee of Group of Earth Observation (GEO) on Disaster Risk Management (GEO-DARMA) and Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) Advisory Committee. He is also Executive Board Chairman, Working Group on Land Cover for Africa (WGLCA) and member of Kenya National Academy of Sciences (MKNAS).