About the reviewers
Ana-Cornelia BADEA is a professor at the Faculty of Geodesy, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest. She defended habilitation in the field of geodetic engineering, and is a director of the Engineering Geodetic Measurements and Spatial Data Infrastructures Research Center. She is a UTCB representative at FIG. Her research interests focus primarily on modern geospatial data acquisition technologies, 3D modeling, GIS analysis, GIS-BIM integration, project management, concepts of urban cadastre, cadastral GIS applications, mobile mapping, and web GIS applications. She is the author and co-author of over 90 scientific papers at national and international conferences, as well as 10 books. She is president of the editorial board of the Journal of Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre, and the Union of Romanian surveyors, and is involved in numerous international editorial committees. She is a member of the ASRO ISO TC 359 committee on geospatial data standardization and is involved in project evaluation for national and international calls.
Brad Hamson is a spatial analyst and developer in the Seattle area whose professional interests include spatial data engineering, systems engineering, remote sensing, data science, and designing geospatial software applications. He is currently a graduate student pursuing a Master of Science degree in engineering management from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in geography and environmental planning from Towson University, with a focus on geographic information sciences. Brad has extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise geographic information systems and solutions using proprietary and open source technologies. His specialist areas include spatial analysis using Python, system architecture and design, software development, spatial database design, data visualization, cartography, and graphic design.
Chima Obi is the lead geospatial analyst at AGERPoint Inc. His areas of expertise include processing lidar data, feature extraction from raster files, data visualization, big data analytics, and Python and R programming, as well as exploring other open source geospatial tools. He attained his bachelor's degree in soil science from the Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria, in 2010. He then moved to the United States, where he obtained his master's degree in environmental science and obtained a certificate in geospatial information systems in 2016.
Prior to working at AGERPoint, he worked as a geospatial analyst at the West Virginia District of Highways throughout 2015 and 2016. He has extensive experience in the analysis of geospatial data.