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Independent experts nominated by country party

Tarek Djafar

Title
Mr.
First name
Tarek
Last name
Djafar
Gender
M
Nominating Country
Date of Nomination
Other Disciplines
Soil Science
UN languages spoken

Arabic

English

Russian

Geographical Focus
Iraq
Lebanon
Job function
Research Vice-Director
Division
Agricultural and environmental and urban Planning
Email
gors@mail.sy
tarek.djafar@gmail.com
Telephone number
00963 11 3943670
Work experience
1- Surveying Natural and Agricultural Resources in Syria Using RS and GIS_x000D_
2- Project "Improving Costal Land Degradation Monitoring in Lebanon and Syria". A project jointly implemented in cooperation with GORS, European Union, and Lebanon._x000D_
3- Soil maps production using RS of Syrian step, implemented in cooperation with GORS, and ACSAD._x000D_
4- Land degradation maps production using RS of Syrian step, implemented in cooperation with GORS, and ACSAD._x000D_
5- Project "Integrated Costal Area Management in Tartous using RS, GIS & Supporting sciences"._x000D_
6- Land use/cover map for Syria._x000D_
Disciplines: 1- Soil science, 2- Land degradation and Desertification, 3- GIS & Remote Sensing, 4- Mapping Soil Cover and Land Degradation;_x000D_
Geographic area:Syria, Lebanon, Russia and Iraq.
Highest Academic achievement and qualification
Ph.D in Soil mapping and Desertification by using Remote sensing, University of Moscow, MGU,1994
Number of Publications
11
Publication titles
1. Report on land use cover map for some selected areas in Syria 2009, 2010, 2013_x000D_
2. Report on soil maps and evaluation for research center in ACSAD_x000D_
3. Lecturer at the 10th international meeting on soils in the Mediterranean, Beirut, Lebanon, 2009_x000D_
4. Lecturer at the 1st international conference on the role of GIS in sustainable development, Libya, 2008_x000D_
5. Lecturer at the 3th workshop for the Syrian-Egyptian Technical and Scientific Cooperation Fund, Cairo, 2010
Other activities
1- forestry project (cooperation with Algeria)._x000D_
2- Land degradation maps production using RS of Syrian step, implemented in cooperation with GORS, and ACSAD._x000D_
3- Land use/cover Mapping, using Remote sensing (cooperation with Egypt)
Organisation name
Environment & Remote Sensing Institute
Organisation street address
General Organization of Remote Sensing (GORS)Alsaboura, Damascus – Syria, P.O BOX: 12586
Organisation city
Alsaboura, Damascus
Organisation country
Syrian Arab Republic