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Past Research and Consulting :
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Land Tenure
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Land Administration (Cadastral/Registration
Systems)
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Geomatics
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Geographic/Land
Information Systems
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Web-based
Knowledge Transfer/Distance Education
Land
Tenure
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Developed project activities and work plan
for USAID-funded CAIMAN (Conservation in Managed Indigenous Areas)
Project in Ecuador
(Nov – Dec 2002)
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Research of community tenure regimes in Brazil, Mexico
and Guatemala
(with Center
for Governmental Responsibility, UF Law School) (Jun 2001 –2003)
· Studied
land tenure issues in Barbados,
including an analysis of the legal, technical and institutional framework
supporting land administration. This study contributed to the design of a
Housing and Neighborhood Upgrading Program. (May-June 1998)
· Assessed
land tenure situation and land titling activities in the municipality of El
Castillo, Nicaragua,
and made recommendations for conflict resolution, procedures for
irregularly surveyed and titled properties, and use of personnel and
budget. (May 1998)
· Assessed
the status of the policy, legal, administrative and technical reforms in
public land management and tenure regularization in Guyana. (March 1998)
· Global
study of land administration projects worldwide, including aspects related
to policy, institutional structure, legal framework, culture, environment,
cadastre, land registration system, formal and customary land systems. (Sep – Dec 1997)
· Identified
and analyzed critical land-related issues associated with tenure security,
protection of land rights of indigenous peoples, land administration at the
local community level, land titling, and restrictions on use of land as
collateral in Bolivia. (Feb 1992 – Jun 1995)
· Assisted
with reform of the technical and institutional aspects of land titling,
mapping, registration and land information systems in Bolivia. (Feb 1992 – Jun 1995)
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Conceptual design of a policy-oriented land
administration reform program to encourage more effective use of land in Jamaica to support
environmental, urban and agricultural initiatives. (Sep 1991)
Land
Administration
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Research project to compile lessons learned
and analyze global
comparative costs for land administration reform funded by USAID/World Bank
(Jan – Aug 2002)
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Assessment of USAID-funded land titling and
privatization project in Moldova
(May 2002)
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Assisted National Agrarian registry in Mexico define a diagnostic
study to support the future development of the Mexican cadastre (April 2002)
· Design of
Regularization Processes in support of the IDB-funded Property
Regularization Project in Ecuador
(Apr – Sept 2001)
· Assessment
of options for modernizing and decentralizing land administration in Malawi (Dec 2000 – Jan
2001)
· Analysis of
the land concessions backlog in Mozambique
with recommendations for resolution. (February – April 2000)
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Collaborated in the design of a project to
establish an integrated legal cadastre in Trinidad and Tobago
(Oct 1998)
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Evaluated the cadastral and registration
systems in Colombia
and made recommendations for modernizing and integrating these
systems. (Apr 1996)
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Evaluated new praedial land registration
system in Peru. (Feb
- Jun 1995)
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Assessed the cadastral and land registration
systems in Belize
and collaborated in the identification, design and preparation of a project
to modernize and improve these systems. (Jan – May 1995)
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Assessed the cadastral and land registration
systems in Trinidad and Tobago (Jan – Feb 1995)
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Evaluated pilot project results and provided
recommendations for modernization of land registration and cadastre systems
in the Peten, Guatemala.
(Aug 1994)
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Evaluated different approaches for the
development of a digital cadastral overlay in Franklin County, OH. (Jan – Sep 1992)
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Designed a parcel-based LIS that could be
integrated with a broader based LIS/GIS in support of integrated
development planning in the Peten, Guatemala. (Aug – Sep 1991)
Geomatics
· Advised and
assisted with initial implementation of Moldovan Land Privatization Support Project.
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Analyzed GPS technology transfer experience
in Albania.
(1999 – 2000)
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Developed and tested an integrated cadastral
surveying and mapping methodology utilizing GPS in Albania. (1995 – 1998)
· Analyzed
current approaches towards cadastral surveying, geodetic infrastructure
requirements, equipment needs, training, personnel, budget and designed
pilot project for testing GPS methodology in forested areas of Peru. (Dec 1996 – Jan 1997)
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Designed and field-tested GPS methodology
for cadastral surveying in Peru,
including training local surveyors. (Sep – Oct 1998)
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Designed strategy for modernizing cadastral
system in the Dominican Republic,
including reforming the legal framework, upgrading the geomatics profession
to meet current needs, training and education, as well as the design of an
urban and rural pilot project. (Jun – Jul 1997)
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Evaluated current status of geomatics in
various land administration institutions and provided recommendations for property
registration in urban and rural areas of Kyrgyzstan.
(May – Jun 1997)
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Designed and developed a medium accuracy GPS
methodology for cadastral surveying in Belize,
including the implementation of a pilot project, development of standards,
specifications and procedures, and training of 20 Belizeans. (May – Jul 1996)
· Investigated
the integration of remote sensing imagery (SPOT) and GPS measurements for
identifying unexploited private land parcels in Bolivia. (Jan 1994 – Jun 1995)
Geographic/Land
Information Systems
· Developing
spatio-temporal data model to investigate relationships between property
ownership dynamics, land-use/land cover change and carbon sequestration in
the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain of the US. (May 2000 – Dec 2003)
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Application of GIS for modeling and
analyzing the relationships between development interventions
(transportation, health, agriculture) and welfare in Zaire.
Included fieldwork in rural Zaire
and the integration of nutritional, land-use, administrative and
topographic data. (Feb – Sep 1991)
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Development and demonstration of a GIS
capability to support "one-call" utilities protection services in
Ohio. (Sep 1990 – Jun 1992)
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Investigated and analyzed the potential data
sources for the transactional updating and maintenance of the Franklin
County (OH) LIS/GIS. (Jun – Jul 1991)
· Developed
software to remove photo distortion from SCS soils maps to facilitate
integration into a multipurpose LIS/GIS.
This contributed to the Dane County Land Records Project, WI, which demonstrated the utility
of GIS for managing land records and integrating cadastral, soils, land
cover and land-use information (Jun
1984 – Jul 1986)
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Designed and developed a software package to
digitize, remove distortions and map data from single aerial
photographs. These were used to
generate maps to aid the collection of census and environmental information
in remote rural areas in South Africa.
(Jan 1980 – Jun 1982)
Web-based Knowledge
Transfer/Distance Education
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