Independent Consultant on Innovative Location-centric Business Applications, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, AI/ML applications, Earth Observation, Image Processing & Feature Extraction, Data Management, Cloud Computing, Full-stack App Development, End-to-end Solutions from Data to Analysis to Web Delivery, Climate Change Impacts, Natural Hazards, Risk Modelling, Open Source, Geospatial Web Services, Web Mapping, etc.Keping has been actively creating new applications in:+ Property Location Intelligence+ Hazards, Risk & Insurance+ Climate Change Impacts+ Earth Observation, Image Processing & Feature Extraction+ Digital Agriculture+ Natural Resources & EnvironmentWebsite: http://www.BigDataEarth.comBlog: http://www.BigDataEarth.com/blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigDataEarthRecent major projects and services include:+ Mapping major bushfires in Australia using near real-time Himawari-8 satellite imagery+ Developing dedicated image analysis software to rapidly process Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, Himawari-8/9 and GOES-16/17 satellite imagery;+ Applying new AI/ML techniques for image feature extraction, property location metrics and hazard / risk modelling;+ Creating next-generation property location & hazard risk information with cloud-based big data & analytics platforms;+ Developing https://PropertyLocation.com.au/ (for Australia); + Developing https://PropertyLocation360.com/ (for the U.S. & the rest of the world);+ Creating Location Profile APIs (https://developer.bigdataearth.com/); + Developing versatile web mapping, analysis & reporting Apps;+ Creating new tools for investigating flood-prone areas in the U.S. & Australia; + Developing unique geocoding solutions;+ Extracting land cover features from ~400 terabytes of high-resolution imagery;+ Making large-sized global imagery and elevation mosaics; and+ Analysing climate change projections dataset NASA NEX-GDDP (2015; ~12 terabytes in file size).

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During his long association with Risk Frontiers, Keping developed research interests and expertise in natural hazards and risk assessment, using geospatial approaches and applied mathematics. He led various major projects (often at the national level) in quantitative risk assessment, catastrophe loss modelling and risk computation, including:- quantifying bushfire penetration into urban areas;- mapping flood-prone areas;- estimating coastal exposure across the country;- developing hazard risk rating databases for individual addresses (e.g. for bushfire and flood); - designing and programming terrorism blast loss models for five capital cities; - revising the Insurance Council of Australia’s risk accumulation zones; and - examining changes of wind speed distributions in the historical record of Atlantic hurricanes and western North Pacific typhoons.He authored / co-authored 36+ journal articles and conference papers, a similar number of newsletter articles and briefing notes, and more than a dozen major client reports. Thanks to the public's interest, research findings from some of the projects were highlighted in popular science magazines and major media outlets, including: - Nature (Volume 430, Page 159, 8 July 2004)- Australasian Science Magazine (Cover story, Jan/Feb 2005 issue)- The Australian (Front page story, Weekend Australian, 15 January 2005)- An ABC 7:30 Report on sea level rise and coastal vulnerability- A special report to the Royal Commission Inquiry on bushfire penetration into urban areas in Australia