About the Reviewers
Pablo Rodríguez Bustamante is a geographer and an Environment and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consultant with experience in the field of water resource planning and natural hazards.
He has 4 years' experience in the field of GIT (Geographic Information Technologies) and thematic mapping, 3 years' experience in environmental consulting, and 2 years' experience in water planning issues and natural hazards.
He is a GIS specialist. He has expertise in EIA and Urban and Regional Planning.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, and Italian.
GEOCyL Environmental and Territorial Consultancy
GEOCyL is an environmental and territorial consultancy specializing in environmental studies, risk management, GIS development, land management, urban planning, geomarketing, and spreading knowledge about nature and our environment.
Our company optimizes various territorial areas in different sectors. For that, we use the newest technologies in geographical science concerning environmental and territorial issues. On the basis of GIS, we provide specific and optimized solutions for public authorities and/or private companies.
R&D lines (lines of research)
Research referring to the management of natural hazards, which include drawing up of maps of risk, danger, and vulnerability through particular methodologies of risk analysis; technological advice and help concerning territorial planning and development of endangered areas to prevent or reduce the effect of natural hazards in order to protect the civilian population; and management of emergency bodies.
Implementation of the GBI system (Geographic Business Intelligence) for greater profitability
Analysis and optimization of geographical information and solutions.
Daniela Cristiana DOCAN is a lecturer at Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania. She works within the Faculty of Geodesy, mainly in GIS and survey engineering.
Formerly, she worked for ESRI Romania and ANCPI (National Agency of Cadastre and Land Registration).
She obtained her Ph.D in 2009 in Civil Engineering, with the thesis "Contributions to quality improvement of spatial data in GIS".
While working for ESRI Romania, she has trained (as an authorized Instructor in ArcGIS by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), Redlands, California, USA) teams from different states and privately owned companies. Also, she has created and administrated databases (geodatabase format) for different domains of activity.
For ANCPI (National Agency of Cadastre and Land Registration), in 2009 she created (for the first time in the field) a logical and physical datamodel for the National Topographic Data set on a large scale (TOPRO5). She was a member of different workgroups who elaborated the standards and technical specifications and the country report, in 2010 for INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community).
Brett Gaines is a GIS programmer and remote sensing analyst. He holds a B.S. degree in Geography with a specialization in GIS, along with a M.Sc. degree in GIS.
He stays on the leading edge of GIS and database technologies, and he is always eager to learn new things. He prefers challenging projects and solving tough geospatial intelligence problems.
Eric-Jan Groen is a Linux Professional from the Netherlands. Formerly, he worked at Automotive Navigation Data.
Antonio Santiago is a computer science professional with a keen interest in the subject. He is an extremely curious Software Engineer who loves programming and learning new things.
GIS is his preferred area of interest, mainly because of the amount of things it encloses: databases with spatial capabilities, servers, protocols and standards, desktop and web development, and scalability.
After working with different technologies, such as C, Perl, and PHP, he found his preferred language, Java.
In 2004, while on a weather radar project with the IDL language (Interactive Data Language), he started working with OGC standards and GeoTools/GeoServer projects.
Nowadays, he is more focused on the JavaScript language because of the great performance implementation of current browsers and the growing adoption of the HTML5 specification.
He has authored the book OpenLayers Cookbook, by Packt Publishing.
