CREDENTIALS

• B.S., Biology, University of the Philippines
• M.S., 遥感, University of the Philippines
• Ph.D., 遥感, Chiba University (Japan)

ABOUT

何塞·埃德加多. Aban is a seasoned research and project manager and an advocate of satellite remote sensing education. He served for almost two decades at the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines and has taught as a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography, 发展, and Environmental Studies at the Universiti of Brunei Darussalam, where he was instrumental in the establishment of an image processing laboratory.

Dr. Aban teaches GE-480/580 Introduction to 遥感 during spring session and GE-480/580 Introduction to 地理信息系统 在秋季学期. He also handles Introduction to Geography, and a host of Geography subjects such as GE-201 World Regional Geography, GE-203自然地理, 以及GE-321经济地理.

在加入世界杯投注之前, Aban served as a technical consultant at the Asian 发展 Bank, as project manager of the GIS-based project dubbed “Communication and Information Systems for the Control of Avian Influenza” of the ASEAN Foundation, and as a consultant of a mapping unit of an agricultural company in Indonesia.

研究兴趣

• 土地利用/覆被变化分析
• 全球变化分析
• 生态系统变化研究
• applications of non-parametric methods for 全球变化分析 and modeling (power and singular spectrum analysis of multi-temporal datasets) using satellite data (e.g. normalized difference vegetation index - NDVI) and climatic data
• development of pre-processing algorithms for noise reduction in satellite images
• phenological change analysis and its relationship with changes in floral and faunal populations
• climate change impacts (sea-level rise scenarios) modeling with the use of digital elevation modeling, 气候振荡(e.g. ENSO, PDO)，无人机等.