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Patrick Kariuki

PhD (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands)

MSc (International Institute for Geo-Information and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands)

Manager, ILRI GIS/RS

 

Email

p.kariuki*cgiar.org 

Phone

+254 20 422 4818 (Direct)

+ 254 20 422 3000 (Operator) ext. 4818

or + 1 650 833 6660 ext. 4818

Main activities

  • Raising awareness in ILRI/ICRAF of potential use of GIS tools in a variety of research and inform GIS users/potential users in ILRI/ICRAF of new development in GIS tools and their application

  • Coordinating development of GIS capacity across ILRI/ICRAF and developing and providing the training needed to accomplish this

  • Coordinating the management, sharing and exchange of spatial data within ILRI and with collaborating institutions, including collecting, documenting and managing all of ILRI GIS and remote sensing databases

  • Supporting sophisticated GIS/RS analyses for a wide range of inter-disciplinary research projects

  • Supporting proposal development in projects to ensure GIS tools were appropriately included in research design and planning

  • Providing in-depth training courses in GIS and image analysis across ILRI research sites, including the Nairobi, Addis Ababa campuses and offices in West Africa and Asia and providing occasional training in GIS and image interpretation for colleagues from collaborating institutions

  • Linking with ILRI biometrics unit in development and provision of spatial statistics tools and ensuring quality control of spatial

Main expertise

  • Remote Sensing applications to Land Resources Assessment

  • Geographical Information System application to Land Resources Assessment and Monitoring

  • Natural Resources Management

  • Environmental Monitoring

Conducts training courses in following languages

  • English

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