Justin Saunders

35+ years in international geospatial innovation and technology and now promoting and expanding drone surveys and mapping across Africa. GIS expert, mapping, land & property, remote sensing, and database integration. Visionary GIS Web mapping and internet adopter since 1994. Drone/UAV survey professional. Expert in QGIS, ArcGIS, ERDAS, ERMapper, eCognition, Google EarthEngine and other geospatial software applications including AI. Justin's interest and drone mapping experience in several African countries has hatched Africa Bees, a startup for a drone community in Africa which Justin is developing. Using artificial intelligence AI to semi-automate classification and segmentation of drone imagery, 3D, pointcloud and DSM analysis. I founded the successful mapping company Emapsite in early 2000 and sold recently to Idox who are listed on the stock exchange. Emapsite continues to grow and host the largest selection of digital mapping data in the UK including OS Mastermap from Ordnance Survey and other UK suppliers. Justin has recently worked as a consultant for the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, Spatial Dimension, Microsoft, Ripple Africa, IMC, TRL, NIRAS, Saudi ARAMCO, Mott MacDonald and BAM International. Also founder of GISL, Justin gained extensive international experience in GIS, remote sensing, mapping, data capture techniques, GPS, surveys, land cadastre, environmental monitoring, UAV, Lidar and database management. Justin has carried out a wide range of consultancy worldwide including: Drone training for wildlife and conservation in Ethiopia and Malawi, River and Land Management Projects in Malawi, Ethiopia and Sudan; Coastal zone, environmental and aquaculture site selection for the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kenya, eSwatini and Bohai Sea, China; Land Registration in Mongolia and Malawi; Air Survey for crops in Namibia; LIS in Barbados; Cotton mapping in Paraguay; Schools mapping in Malawi; Environmental water resource applications Hunan Province, China; GIS at NRSC of China to develop remote sensing for gold exploration in Xinjiang, China; Geospatial activities in Oman, Namibia, Ghana, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; Training in Barbados, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mongolia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan; 3D Drone Surveys in Malawi, Sierra Leone, eSwatini, Ethiopia and Uganda.