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Professional Experiences

Location , Employer, Position, main duties Years
  1. Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum, Sudan
  2. Lecturer of Forest Management, at the Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum, Sudan
  3. Assistant Professor of Remote and GIS at the Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum, Sudan

Teaching duties :

Teaching the subjects of:

  • Forest management
  • Forest survey
  • Introduction to remote sensing and GIS
  • Advanced courses in applications of remote sensing and GIS for monitoring and mapping forests in drylands
  • Advanced courses in applications of remote sensing and GIS for desertification and land degradation in arid lands
  • Supervision of undergraduate research at the faculty level.
  • Supervision of postgraduate students at M.Sc. and PhD levels
  • Conduction and supervision ofstudents practical and field excursions
  • Preparation and conduction of faculty annual working plans for different forests areas
  • Preparation of exercise, tests and examinations for under and postgraduate students
  • Participation in different scientific forums, workshops, seminars and conferences in remote sensing and GIS at local, national, regional and international levels
  • Conduction of regular specialized training courses and sessions for researchers and practionners in applications of remote sensing and GIS techniques
Sep 1998-Present
  1. Assistant Supervisor at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Faculty of Forestry, Geo-and Hydro-Sciences, University of Dresden, Germany

Working duties:

  • Participated as Lecturer at some training courses arranged by NGOs and UNDP projects in application of remote sensing and GIS in montoring and mapping   natural resercure (in Dresden Germany)
  • Supervised   M.Sc Students at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing TU Dresden, Germany.
  • Supervised and trainiedseveral gradutae and undergradute students in remote sensing applications (TU Dresden)
  • Provided technical assistance inpracticals and excusions of remote sensing and GIS (TU Dresden as well as in different forests in Germany)
Oct 2000-Jun 2007
  1. Teaching in the UNEP/UNESCO/BMU International Postgraduate Course on the Environmental Management for Developing and Emerging Countries, Dresden, Germany

Duties and responsibilities include:

  • Participated as lecturer in some training course in remote sensing and GIS
  • Assisted my main supervisor who conducted some lecturers and supervised some research topics arranged by NGOs and UNDP programmes   in applications of remote sensing and GIS in arid and semi-arid areas
  • Provided technical assistance in GIS and RS at local and regional level

 

Jan 2004-Apr 2005
  1. Director of remote sensing and GIS unit at Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum

Duties and responsibilities at the unit included:

  • Retrieval and analysis of remote sensed data for different applications such as land surface, forest cover changes, vegetation cover , soil types , desertification and land degradation, water resources and wildlife
  • Analysing forest cover changes and their relation to land degradation and desertification in drylands
  • Applications of GIS to map and monitor land cover/ land use and vegetation cover changes in arid and semi-arid lands
  • Training and supervision of students in applications of remote sensing in monitoring of the fragile natural resources in Sudan
  • Establishment of database using remote sensingfor natural reserved forest and some vulnerable areas to desertification and land degradation in North Kordofan State, Sudan
  • Assist in processing and interpretation of satellites imageries for natural resources analysing for under and post-graduate students at the faculty
  • Contected training workshops in Remote Sensing , (Introduction and Applications ) at Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum, 31/10 – 04/11/2010
  • Contected training workshops in GIS (Introduction, Principles and Applications) at Faculty of Forestry , University of Khartoum, 04/03 – 08/03/2012
Aug 2007- Fep2010
  1. Consultancies

      I.          MEFET Enginerering counterpart in remote sensing and GIS applications for North Kordofan and Khartoum structural Plans

Duties and activities

  • Developing remote sensing and GIS manual for the project
  • Classification and interpretations of remote sensing data for the project
  • Supervised in using remote sensing and GIS in mapping and monorting natural resources in Khartoum state
  • Working in different sowftware ( ERDAS Imageine 9.3, ArcGIS 9.3 and ENVI ) in analysing and mapping the vegeetation cover and landuses in NorthKordofan State, Sudan

 

    II.          Nile Basin Programs: the main task is to prepare and proposal of montoring and mapping Nile basin

Riske assessment of Nile basin problems by using remote sensing and GIS tools

Training workshop for IFAD project in remote sensing and GPS tool

 

Sep 2007-Oct 2008 

 

 

 

 

Jun 2008-Fep 2010

 

 

March 2014-April 2014

  1. Extension responsibilities:

 

  • Assisting governmental administrative efforts (e,g FNC ) in the forest issues of forest management
  • Consultancy in mapping and assessment of sand encroachment by spectral mixture analysis in arid and semi-arid areas in North Kordofan State, Sudan
  • Technical advisor for Gum Arabic Research Centre in mapping and monitoring the Gum Arabic belts by using remote sensing and GIS tools