People

Baena, Susana

Job Title Spatial Information Scientist
Department Seed Conservation
Section Information
Science Teams Wet Tropics: Africa
Madagascar
Joined Kew 2003
Foreign Language(s) Spanish

Qualifications & Appointments

BSc, Univ. Madrid, 1994

MSc, University College London, 2002

Role

GIS projects and related research. Special interests in Remote Sensing, vegetation mapping and conservation assessments.

GIS and Remote sensing applications to conservation, environment and plant science. Presenting data and producing tools for conservation and environmental monitoring. Providing a GIS interface for conservation, taxonomy, systematics and phytogeography. Special interests are in: Vegetation mapping and area conservation assessments (Kew Key Measure 2d), using remote sensing and GIS techniques to give up-to-date and accurate vegetation mapping and temporal vegetation change (see Madagascar Vegetation Mapping Project)

Projects

CEPF Madagascar Vegetation Mapping

Guinea-Conakry: Developing a National Herbarium and Survey of the Simandou Range

Madagascar GIS

Mefou Proposed National Park, Cameroon: A Conservation Checklist

MSB Enhancement Project Part 1A – Species Targeting