Martin de Zuviria Phd

Dr. Martin de Zuviria is an Environmental and Climate Change Scientist with a key expertise on the use of Geographic Information Systems and other modeling tools to simulate potential impacts of climatic parameters fluctuation on agriculture production. He is member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Contributing Author of Assessment Reports, and member of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE).

He became Agricultural Engineer at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982, and Specialist in Regional Surveys at the CIAF, Colombia, in 1985 (diploma of excellence). He obtained his MSc in Rural Survey at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands, in 1989 (with distinction), and the degree of Doctor in Environmental Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1992.

He has worked in research and consulting in Argentina, for the National Council for Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET), Aeroterra S.A. (ESRI GIS distributors in Argentina and Uruguay) and the Organization of American States (OAS; and in The Netherlands, Thailand and Bolivia for the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). He worked in Ottawa for MaxSys Engineering Solutions Inc. and PCI Geomatics. 

He has over twenty scientific publications and more than twenty years applying GIS and Remote Sensing tools in Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environmental and Climate Change studies.

 

Ginto Cherian
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Satellite Image Processing)                              
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Ginto has a wide range of skills covering such areas as Geographic Information Systems, Software Engineering and
Image Processing and Remote Sensing.  He has done extensive conference presentations including:
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• G. Cherian, X. Song, G. Fan and M. Rao, "Application of Support Vector Machines for Automatic Compliance Monitoring of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Tracts", in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Alaska, September 20-24, 2004.
• 1st Annual Oklahoma Symposium on Geospatial Information Technology, June 2003.

He is also published:
X. Song, G. Cherian and G. Fan, “A v-insensitive SVM Approach for Compliance
Monitoring of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Tracts”, IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, April 2005.

• G. Cherian, “Support Vector Machines for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Mapping and Compliance Monitoring”, Masters Thesis, Oklahoma State University, December, 2004.

Rao, M., G. Fan, J. Thomas, G. Cherian, V. Chudiwale, M. Awawdeh. 2006. A Web-based GIS Decision Support System for Managing and Planning USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Environmental Modelling and Software.

Rob Bennett

Rob Bennett is a Geographic Information Systems Analyst and Print Consultant with TerraLogik Information Systems Inc. Rob has an extensive background in the graphic arts industry in quality management, process documentation and trouble shooting. Rob's life long passion for geography and cartography prompted his entry to the Algonquin College School of Advance Technology GIS Graduate Certificate program where he graduated with distinction, winning the Canadian Institute of Geomatics Award for his outstanding student project, Lesotho: Transportation Networks and Population Distribution; An Analysis for Riders for Health, in 2007.

Rob holds an aircraft pilot license, which has contributed to TerraLogik's development of air navigational charts for Nav Canada, of which he also has lent to the team his process documentation skills and graphic arts background to aid in the transfer of this process from a film based to a digital system.