GIS and Environmental Management in the Sultanate of Omanby Ms.Hanifa Bint Mohammed
Al-Kharousy, Head of GIS,
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Chris Parker |
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Abstract : |
Population growth and the rapid pace of agricultural, urban and industrial development places increasing pressures on the environment. Factors affecting the environment and mankind's management of natural resources are many and varied, and change as development takes place. GIS functionality enables data on these dynamic and varied factors influencing the environment and its management to be collated, analysed and presented in a form that can be easily assimilated. GIS also provides sufficient flexibility to allow changes in environment controls and influences to be incorporated in plans, programmes and projects.
This paper considers the role of GIS as a tool for environmental management and identifies a number of applications. Several case studies describing the use of GIS for environmental management within the Sultanate of Oman are described with special reference to its use on the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary Project.
Chris Parker - Profile :
Project Manager and GIS specialist, Nortech Surveys (Canada) Inc., Muscat Branch, P O Box 3082 Ruwi, Code 112, Sultanate of Oman.
Qualifications:
BA First Class Honours Geography (Nottingham University,
United Kingdom)
M.Sc. Land Resources Management (Cranfield Institute of
Technology, UK)
PhD (Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK)
Professional Bodies:
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
Associate Member, Institution of Agricultural engineers
Career Summary:
1996 - date : Project Manager and GIS Specialist, Nortech
Surveys (Canada) Inc., Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
1996 - 1996: GIS Specialist - Arabian Mapping Company
1992 - 1996: GIS Specialist - Ministry of Water Resources,
Government of Sultanate of Oman.
1990 - 1991: GIS Manager - The Robertson Group
Plc(Simpson-Robertson), UK.
1989 - 1990: Land Resources and GIS Specialist - Hunting
Technical Services, UK.
1986 - 1989: Land Resources Specialist - Norwegian Agency
for International Development Co-operation.
1984 - 1986: Research Officer - Cranfield University, UK.
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