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| Name: | Olipa Simon |
| College/School/Division: | Institute of Resource Assessment |
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| Role: | Principal GIS Laboratory Scientist |
| Current Summarised CV: | Full Name: Olipa Simon Profession: Senior GIS Laboratory Scientist Date of Birth: 21 September, 1974 Nationality: Tanzanian Membership of Professional Societies: Institutional of Surveyors of Tanzania
Key Qualifications Ms. Olipa Simon is a Geomatician by profession specialized in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. She has been working with University of Dar es Salaam -Institute of Resource Assessment for 16 years now as Principal GIS Laboratory Scientist. Among her duties are Designs and supervises construction of experimental test rigs for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and for other research and development projects in the GIS laboratory, Conducts consultancy in the area of GIS and Remote Sensing, Supervises and orients technicians and artisans in their duties and to conducts on-the-job training for Technicians and Artisans.
She has also worked with Food and Agriculture Organization for 2 years as National Consultant Forest Cover Change analysis. Among the task at FAO was to assess and establish historical forest area changes at the national level for the target years 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010, Develop methodology for Forest Area Change detection, carryout land cover change detection to determine the area changes between the range of specified years above, validate the interpretation results, produce a final data sets and maps and generate the statistical results on areas of the different land use unit at National Level as well as District Level and to Produce required thematic maps and statistics related to forest area change and the divers of deforestation
In addition to that, she has also worked with Geita Gold Mine Ltd for 2 years as GIS administrator under exploration department. As a GIS Administrator some of the tasks performed were data capturing, Map production, data processing and analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing for gold exploration
Education/Other Courses 2006. MSc. Computer Science, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2001. BSc. Land Surveying (Geomatics, FIRST class honors), University of Dar es Salaam 2007. Certificate in Principles and Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Natural Resource Management, Institute of Geoinformatics and Earth Observation, ITC, Netherlands 2008. Certificate in Free and Open Source software for Land Evaluation and Land use Planning, Katholieke, Universitet, Belgium, 2011. Certificate in Image and Geospatial Data Processing using OpenForisToolkit, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Rome – Italy, 2011 2017: Spatial Data analysis and modelling for Agricultural development, with R, Arusha – Tanzania 2016: Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 data, Consortium for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria – South Africa 2017: Climate Change Vulnerability and Hotspots Mapping for Wami-Ruvu and Rufiji basins in Tanzania – Morogoro Tanzania 2019 Womein in Vulnerability Assessments training workshop, Kigali - Rwanda
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Employment Record: Employer 1: University of Dar es Salaam From: 2003 To: to date Position: Principal GIS Laboratory Scientist Tasks:
Employer 2: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations From: 2011 To: 2013 Position: National Consultant Forest Area Change Tasks:
Employer 3: Geita Gold Mining Ltd From: 2001 To: 2003 Position: Geographic Information Systems Administrator Tasks: Data capturing, Map production, data processing and analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing, desktop cartography for Gold exploration.
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