Issam Achour
Data Management Assistant at UNEP/MAP - SPA/RAC- Claim this Profile
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Yahya Sadeh
Issam worked as GIS/RS specialist under my supervision during the year 2020. I was consistently impressed by his essential technical skills, his dedication, and good humor. He is a hard worker and talented employee, and it was indeed a delight to work with him.
Ray Moule
As a core member of the Palladium team implementing the GIS project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Issam proved himself to be totally reliable, a good technical expert and a valuable contributor to the team. If a suitable position was available then I would be happy to work with Issam again in the future and to utilise his experience and knowledge in GIS.
Yahya Sadeh
Issam worked as GIS/RS specialist under my supervision during the year 2020. I was consistently impressed by his essential technical skills, his dedication, and good humor. He is a hard worker and talented employee, and it was indeed a delight to work with him.
Ray Moule
As a core member of the Palladium team implementing the GIS project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Issam proved himself to be totally reliable, a good technical expert and a valuable contributor to the team. If a suitable position was available then I would be happy to work with Issam again in the future and to utilise his experience and knowledge in GIS.
Yahya Sadeh
Issam worked as GIS/RS specialist under my supervision during the year 2020. I was consistently impressed by his essential technical skills, his dedication, and good humor. He is a hard worker and talented employee, and it was indeed a delight to work with him.
Ray Moule
As a core member of the Palladium team implementing the GIS project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Issam proved himself to be totally reliable, a good technical expert and a valuable contributor to the team. If a suitable position was available then I would be happy to work with Issam again in the future and to utilise his experience and knowledge in GIS.
Yahya Sadeh
Issam worked as GIS/RS specialist under my supervision during the year 2020. I was consistently impressed by his essential technical skills, his dedication, and good humor. He is a hard worker and talented employee, and it was indeed a delight to work with him.
Ray Moule
As a core member of the Palladium team implementing the GIS project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Issam proved himself to be totally reliable, a good technical expert and a valuable contributor to the team. If a suitable position was available then I would be happy to work with Issam again in the future and to utilise his experience and knowledge in GIS.
Credentials
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Technical Support Fundamentals
CourseraMar, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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UNEP/MAP - SPA/RAC
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Tunisia
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Renewables & Environment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Management Assistant
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Oct 2021 - Present
- Sorted and Classified GIS data, existing and waiting to be inputted, on the Mediterranean Biodiversity Platform (MBP): checking and harmonizing data (location, naming (smart and appropriate nomenclature), metadata, storage, etc.) - Identified and integrated additional data that the Mediterranean Biodiversity Platform (MBP) is expected to integrate through web services. - Tested the SPA/RAC websites, web applications, and data platforms (SPA/RAC 2021 website, Mediterranean Biodiversity Platform MBP, Collaborative Platform of Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance SPAMI, SPAMI Evaluation System, Mediterranean Marine Invasive Non-native Species Database MAMIAS, Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas Database MAPAMED. Show less
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Palladium: Make It Possible
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Australia
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Junior Technical Consultant GIS
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Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
The use of GIS/Remote sensing techniques to develop the national land crop map of KSA region to facilitate decision-making regarding improving the KSA crop production strategies, performing the following tasks: -Agriculture Data analysis and mapping using ArcMap 10.8, ArcGIS Pro. -Field Data Processing and Surveys using Kobo Toolbox. -QA/QC of the Data. -Satellite Image Processing using Sen2-R, QGIS. -Agriculture Fields Boundary Delineation. -Greenhouse Mapping - Multi-temporal Land-use/Land cover classification with the object-based Image Analysis method using Sentinel-2 data (L2A) using e-cognition and ArcGIS Pro. Show less
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INRGREF
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant Research Engineer
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Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
- Monitoring of eroded soils at watershed scale and development of a meta-analysis on water erosion in North-East Tunisia, - The use of ArcGIS and GPS for localization to create a national geodatabase that contains information about the farmer details, the crop type, crop rotations used, seeding dates of smallholder farmers who adopt conservation Agriculture in Tunisia, - Digitizing and creating different Land-use maps according to different scenarios of climate change (2020-2050) (down- and up-scaling). Show less
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Water Engineer
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Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Chef engineer who is responsible for carrying out work on the installation of drinking water pipes, laying pipes, autoCAD work, testing pipe pressures up to pipes connections. Chef engineer who is responsible for carrying out work on the installation of drinking water pipes, laying pipes, autoCAD work, testing pipe pressures up to pipes connections.
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Education
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2015 - 2017
National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia
Master's degree, Sustainable Water Resources Management -
2012 - 2015
National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia
Bachelor's degree, Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry
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