Badreddine KETFI

Advising on the identification and mapping of sensitive coastal zones.

Lead the firm, focusing on GIS, web mapping, and environmental studies. Shipped applications including BioAtlas DZ, coastal GIS, vulnerability, habitats, BilanCarbone, ClimGraphics, and Imtithal.

Mapping for hundreds of impact assessments: spatial database and thematic maps for environmental, socio-economic, and infrastructure data.

Designed and set up a GIS of coastal-zone vulnerability for the wilayas of El Tarf and Mostaganem.

Phase 2 of the Algerian coastal GIS: revised phase-1 architecture, extended to all 14 coastal wilayas, and loaded data. Trained Ministry of Environment staff and wrote the operations guide.

Hydrology mapping: digital elevation models, stream networks, watersheds, and sub-watersheds.

Mapping role on impact assessments: multi-theme databases and maps used to locate environmental issues.

Led the building-address GIS for seven cities for a GPS navigation system. Collected, sorted, analysed, and integrated more than 400,000 addresses.

Coached engineers from public bodies: consolidated databases on climate vulnerability and fauna/flora/habitats, and built the classified-establishments database.

3D model of the 110 km highway spur from Djendjen port to the East-West motorway.

Hundreds of geotechnical studies: modelling of geotechnical and soil formations, and geographic databases of those formations.

Designed, built, and commissioned SIGMARAL, the GIS of maritime signalling equipment: needs, architecture, database, georeferencing, loading, and staff training.

Municipal GIS for Sétif, Ouargla, Mostaganem, and Jijel: contributed to architecture and modelled road, drinking-water, and sewer networks.

Coastal-planning engineer degree. Graduation project involved a GIS of the impacts of the 21 May 2003 earthquake on the wilaya of Boumerdès.

DEUA in coastal planning, an applied university-studies diploma.