Resource Monitoring

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: chaplin.chan@indufor-ap.com

Chaplin Chan strengthens the team with his expertise in land cover change detection, working with remote sensing products. With a strong IT background, he is responsible for the development of customised processing routines within a GIS and remote sensing environment using cloud-computing (and local) platforms. He has extensive experience mapping temporal changes across forested landscapes. Chaplin has played a pivotal role in managing the capture and integration of various (airborne and space-borne) datasets to improve resource management decisions. He has extensive project experience throughout Oceania, Asia, and North and South America. Chaplin gained his BSc double major in Geography and Computer Science (2010) and a BSc (Hons) in Geography, specialising in GIS and remote sensing (2011) from Auckland University, New Zealand. He is fluent in English and Cantonese.

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: callum.haward@indufor-ap.com

Callum Haward gained experience in spatial analysis from his background in biosciences and geography, using GIS across a variety of environments to investigate landcover change and vegetation distribution.

At Indufor, he works closely alongside the team to coordinate projects encompassing GIS mapping and data analytics.

Callum completed his BSc in June 2023, with a dissertation focussed on determining how significantly the resolution of remotely sensed data impacts the classification accuracy of mangrove forests in Guyana, South America. Callum holds a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University, England (2023), where he specialised in Biosciences and Geography.

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: andrew.holdaway@indufor-ap.com

Andrew Holdaway has a background in remote sensing and GIS, with experience in the monitoring of natural features using a range of optical data. With a background in coastal geomorphology, he has an interest in applying emerging geospatial technologies and techniques. Andrew’s recent research has focused on large-scale change detection with Landsat data using Google Earth Engine, gaining an MSc (first class honours) in 2018 from the University of Auckland.

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: abdullah.madawi@indufor-ap.com

Abdullah Madawi has a background in applied mathematics and geophysics completing his MSc in 2019. He works in the Resource Monitoring team at Indufor, utilising his proficiency in programming and analysing large datasets within local and cloud-based environments. Abdullah's MSc research investigated the temporal and spatial variability of Antarctic Bottom Water pathways using a Lagrangian particle tracking tool.

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: kevin.tao@indufor-ap.com

With a solid forestry background, Kevin Tao has a wealth of experience across a range of disciplines including resource inventory, forest modeling and analysis, harvest planning, transportation networks and resource mapping using GIS and remote sensing. He applies this knowledge to forest valuation and due diligence projects throughout South America, Oceania and Asia. Kevin received his Bachelor of Forestry Engineering degree from Canterbury University, New Zealand (2011). He is fluent in Mandarin and English.

Location: New Zealand

Position: Experts

Email: chen.yang@indufor-ap.com

Proficient in the field of GIS and environmental management, Chen Yang specialises in deriving and interpreting information from spatial data and satellite imagery. His expertise lies in data integration, land use mapping, land cover mapping, LiDAR data analysis to validate and update plantation information systems - a key forest valuation and due diligence input. Chen has experience in Oceania, Asia and South America and has been involved in valuations and FMIS development projects in China. He was awarded his Bachelor of Forestry Science from the University of Canterbury (2008), New Zealand and a Postgraduate Diploma of Environmental Science (2013) from Auckland University, New Zealand. He is fluent in Mandarin and English.