Chris Emberson Email & Phone Number

Wiltshire

I am an experienced GIS professional having helped many large organisations to maximise the value of their spatial data. I have been a Company Director and UN Contractor since 2012.Selected Career Achievements:Created the first ever composite map of terrestrial broadband networks for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The map serves as a decision-making tool for alleviating choke-points across international terrestrial fibre-optic networks.Developed entire mapping technology stacks to host the ITU Transmission Map suite of products using best-of-breed technologies. Live since 2012, the mapping framework is updated monthly and contains over 2 million km of networks from over 400 operators worldwide.https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Technology/Pages/InteractiveTransmissionMaps.aspxDeveloped the first ever global ‘slippy’ version of UNmap for the United Nations Geospatial Information Section and UNESCAP. The correct representation of place names and international and administrative boundaries is of paramount importance to UN operations.Developed a Geostatistical framework to quantify the influence of street lighting on levels of crime in urban areas, solving the problem for Kent Police.

Bath, United Kingdom

• Detailed GIS mapping of global risk including piracy, terrorism, human trafficking, epidemiology and natural disasters for global blue chip client base spanning multiple sectors (oil and gas, financial, health)• Development of a land use crop suitability model for key agro-commodities across SE Asia and West Africa in the context of foreign investor risk analysis• Time-series analysis mapping to facilitate the understanding and management of risk• Development and management of global data warehouse• Management of the GIS team (4 other members)

Bath, United Kingdom

• GIS Analyst for several UK human vulnerability mapping projects at the household level for UK government agencies, including;• The ‘FoodMapper’ project http://www.foodmapper.org.uk (part funded by Defra and GOSW)• The National Indicators Mapping Application for Ipsos MORI. • The South West Heat Map project for Regen South West: http://regensw.s3.amazonaws.com/sw_heat_map_report_final_version_reduced_c6b2f775204f9c7d.pdf

Cranfield

• Analysis and monitoring of crop cultivation patterns across Afghanistan (UNODC)• Classification of crop type using both true colour and false colour composite (NIR) imagery• Extensive use of Leica Geosystems and ArcGIS software for the radiometric enhancement and interpretation of multi-spectral IKONOS satellite imagery• Reporting of crop cultivation patterns to strict monthly deadlines

Bath, United Kingdom

• Creation of a weighted overlay model for the World Bank, for the prediction of telecommunication network infrastructure in 30 African countries.• Creation of Google Earth and OpenLayers based mashups of African telecommunications data using a variety of techniques including polyline encoding and custom map tiles.• Translation into French of the IDRC Acacia Atlas 2005