World Urban Forum 4, Nanjing Habitat Seminar: Slum mapping with space imagery

Programme and short résumés of the presenters

Time	Speaker	Topic
9:00	Mr. Ron Spreekmeester, Netherlands Ministry of Spatial Planning, Housing and Environment, VROM	Welcome and purpose of seminar
9:05	Dr. Gora Mboup and Ms. Maharufa Hossain, UN-HABITAT Gobal Urban Observatory	MDG 7 Target 11: Implications for Slum Mapping and Monitoring
	Slum mapping: different contexts & different tools
9:15	Ms. Sarah Kyessi, ARDHI Ministry, Tanzania and Ms. Maria Saguti Marealle, Coordinator, Dar es Salaam Cities Alliance Programm	Slum mapping in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Report on recent projects by ARDHI Ministry. A Citywide Survey and Analysis of Unplanned and Un-serviced Settlements Using Satellite Images - The Case of Dar es Salaam
9:30	Prof. Dr. Zhan Quingming, Wuhan University, School of Urban Design	Urban Villages in China: Examples and Mapping Methods
9:40	Mr. Samuel Darko, Sambus Company Ltd. and Mr. Frank Pichel, International Land Systems, Inc.	Mapping the Ashaman Slum in Accra through Land Titling
9:50	Dr. Jan Turkstra, UN-HABITAT	Visible and Non-visible Slum Areas
10:00	Questions and Discussion
10:15	Dr. Thomas Kemper, JRC, Italy	Supporting Slum Mapping Using Very High Resolution Satellite Images
10:35	Dr. Richard Sliuzas, ITC, The Netherlands	Conclusions of Expert Meeting May 2008 and The Way Forward
10:45	Questions and Discussion
10:55	Mr. Ron Spreekmeester, VROM, The Netherlands	Closing Remarks

Short résumés of presenters

Mr. Ron Spreekmeester

Ron is an urban sociologist. He has worked for Amsterdam's Municipal Housing Service, The Dutch Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning, from 1997-2007 he was Director of the Dutch Habitat Platform before rejoining the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in 2007 as Adviser on international affairs. Ron is familiar with methods for citizen's participation, at national and international level; he tries to apply them to several issues, like local development, local habitat agenda's, integration and sustainable development.

Dr. Gora Mboup

Sr. Demographic and Health Expert, Ag. Chief Global Urban Observatory, UN-Habitat Gora is a demographic expert who joined UN-HABITAT in 2004. He led a team to develop a statistical method for the computation of population and proportion of slum dwellers for all MDGs countries as published in the MDGs Glossary report in 2004 and in various UN-HABITAT publications such as the State of the World's Cities series. Since March 2008, Gora is Acting Chief of the Global Urban Observatory of the Monitoring Research Division.

Ms. Maharufa Hossain

GIS and Local Urban Observatory Coordinator, UN-HABITAT Maharufa joined UN-HABITAT in 2006 and is now the Local Urban Observatory coordinator for the Global Urban observatory of the Monitoring Research Division. She is a member of UN-HABITAT Global Project review committee and successfully incorporated Geo Spatial Application in many projects of the Agency to have better information for better planning. She is also one of the contributor in 'State of the world cities Report'-09 and other research publication of the Monitoring Systems Branch.

Ms. Sarah Kyessi

Sarah is a senior urban planner at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and urban Development (ARDHI), Tanzania. She has more than 20 years of experience in various issues related to informal settlement and sites and service projects. She recently was leader of a project to register ownership in informal settlements and issue residential licenses to property owners.

Ms. Maria Saguti Marealle

Maria is an Architect and a housing specialist holding a Masters of Science Degree in Urban Housing Management. She has fourteen years working experience in the Urban Development Sector with special emphasis on poverty reduction both from public, private and international organisations. She is currently working as a Programme coordinator for a Citywide Slum Upgrading Programme in Dar es Salaam responsible for leading, managing and coordinating the preparation of the Action Plan to Upgrade Unplanned and Un-serviced settlements by 2015.

Dr. Zhan Qingming

Qingming is Professor and Vice Dean at the School of Urban Design, Wuhan University. His main research interest is in the application of urban remote sensing and GIS within urban planning. He has been involved in many technical support projects to the cities of Wuhan, Shenzhen and Fuzhou amongst others including some work on urban mapping and urban village identification and mapping.

Mr. Samuel Darko and Mr. Frank Pichel

Samuel and Frank work for private companies that have been engaged in a mapping and land titling project for the Ashaman slum in Accra.

Dr. Jan Turkstra

Jan is an urban planner who joined UN-HABITAT in 2005. He has been working with the Urban Planning Agency of Libya where he coordinates support from UN-HABITAT to a major spatial planning project with extensive use of satellite images and aerial photographs. He was also involved in a project in Somalia using Quickbird images to develop a database for property taxation. In 2004 he was seconded to the Global Urban Observatory of UN-HABITAT and working on slum mapping, urban inequities studies and the development of a slum calendar. Before joining UN-HABITAT he was for 20 years with ITC and worked in a variety of urban projects, especially in China, Colombia and Peru. He holds a special interest in urban land administration, spatial-temporal urban development and poverty mapping.

Dr. Thomas Kemper

Thomas is an expert on remote sensing and physical geography. In 2004 he joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of DLR (German Aerospace Center) where he provided satellite based crisis information in natural disasters, humanitarian and complex crisis situations to support decision making and field teams. In 2007 he joined the Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen of the EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) where he is working on the exploitation of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, visually depict and model security issues relevant to EU policies.

Dr. Richard Sliuzas

Richard is an urban planner specialized in urban remote sensing and GIS applications. He is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at ITC, the Netherlands, where he has been involved in research and project activities related to slum mapping in the following countries: Egypt, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Richard was one of the instigators of an international expert group meeting on slum mapping with very high resolution satellite imagery, held at ITC in May 2008.