Tim has more than 20 years experience in the following areas: deriving map based products from GIS - water harvesting suitability analysis using GIS, developing customised GIS solutions; mapping upland semi natural vegetation by image interpretation within the UK and overseas; ground surveys in support of land cover classification; topographic mapping using analogue and softcopy photogrammetry, GPS survey, erosion survey and risk assessment. Tim has extensive experience in developing training materials for long and short courses in image interpretation and GIS. Courses have been run in United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan as well as the UK. Tim has been the Course Director for the MSc in Geographical Information Management and the Natural Resource Management elective manager on the MSc Land Management at Cranfield University. He is now Programme Director for the Environment Programme suite of 12 MSc courses at Cranfield University.Specialties: Particular skills include cartography; customisation of GIS; image interpretation; softcopy photogrammetry; application and modelling of remotely sensed data within GIS; development of GIS training courses; and land capability and suitability mapping.