Dr. Zahir Ali

Personal Information:

Name: Dr. Zahir Ali

Date of Birth: January 15, 1975

Material Status: Married

Permanent Address: Village and post office Karnel Sher Killi, Mohallah Bhader Khel District SwabiKhyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Mailing Address: Training and R&D DivisionNational Centre for Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics (NCRG)P.O. Box 8402, Karachi-75270Sindh, Pakistan

E-mail: drzahirali@yahoo.com

Web: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dr_Zahir_Ali

Cell No.: +92-0333-3243647

Working Experience: Since Oct 2000 till date

Field of Proposed Study: Land Administration, Remote Sensing & GIS

Current Position: Working as General Manager in SUPARCO in the field of GIS & Remote Sensing

Academic Background:

Degree Degree Year Year Field of StudyField of Study InstitutionInstitution

PhD 2013 Land Administration University of Twente, The NetherlandMPhil 2005 Physics University of Peshawar

BEd 2000 Education University of Peshawar

MSc 1999 Physics University of Peshawar

BSc 1997 Physics, Maths University of Peshawar

HSC 1994 Pre-Engineering BISE Peshawar

SSC 1992 Science Group BISE Peshawar

Short Courses:

One week professional development course on “How to conduct Successful Selection Interviews”. 20 – 22 March 2013, SUPARCO HQs, Karachi, Pakistan.

Three weeks professional development course on “Total Station and Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM)”. 28 Jan – 15 Feb 2013, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

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Two weeks professional development course on “Differential GPS and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)”. 25 June -08 July 2012, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Five days professional development course on “Object Based Image Analysis”. 16-20 January 2012, NCRG, Karachi, Pakistan.

Three weeks professional development course on “Middle Management”. 12 Oct – 5 Nov 2011, SUPARCO HQs, Karachi, Pakistan.

Five day short course on “Scientific Writing for Non-native English Speakers”. Autumn Semester 2008, ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands.

Short course on “Information Management Research Methodologies”. July 2007, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Short course “Land Administration for the South-East Asian Region”. 4-15 September 2006, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Four months training course on “Database Development .Net”. January-April 2005, NED University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Two weeks professional development course on “Digital Image Processing”. 12-23 July 2004, Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Two weeks training course on “Digital Image Processing”. 1-12 December 2003, SPOT Image, Toulouse, France.

Six months training course on “Space Science & Technology”. October 2000-March 2001, Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Conferences/Seminars:

First Workshop on the Application Pilot Projects for APSCO Data Sharing Service Platform, 12-14 May 2015, Karachi, Pakistan

6th International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST 2013)’, 12-14 June 2013, Istanbul, Turkey

United Nations/Pakistan International Workshop on Integrated Use of Space Technologies for Water and Food Security; 11-15 March 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan

FIG Congress 2010: Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity, 11-16 April 2010, Sydney, Australia

FIG Working Week and XXXI General Assembly, 14–19 June 2008, Stockholm, Sweden

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International Workshop on Satellite Imaging Technology and Applications, 22–28 January 2003, Karachi, Pakistan

Publications:

N. Alam, Ali, Zahir, M. Haq and B. M. Ghouri (2015) “Flood Hazard Zonation and Damage Assessment Using Geospatial Techniques”. In Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, Volume 4, Issue 6

Ali, Zahir, A. M. Tuladhar, J. A. Zevenbergen and Muhammad Ajmal Bhatti. (2014) "Implementing Total Quality Management Concepts to Land Administration System in Pakistan". In American Journal of Rural Development, Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 74-80.

Ali, Zahir, Zevenbergen, Jaap and Tuladhar, Arbind. (2014) "Assessing the Quality Land Administration System in Pakistan Using Systematic Approach of Case Study Methodology". In American Journal of Rural Development, Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 40-45

Ali, Zahir. (2013). "Applying Total Quality Management concepts to land administration: A systematic approach". Scholar’s Press, Germany, Pages 265, ISBN: 978-3-639-70343-6.

Ali, Zahir. (2013). "Developing a framework to apply Total Quality Management concepts to land administration: the case of Islamic Republic of Pakistan". PhD Thesis, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands.

Ali, Zahir and Ahmed, Shafiq. (2013) "Extracting Parcel Boundaries from Satellite Imagery for a Land Information System". In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST 2013)’, held at Istanbul, Turkey from 12-14 June.

Ali, Zahir, Zevenbergen, Jaap and Tuladhar, Arbind. (2013) "Quality Assessment of the Land Administration System in Pakistan". In Journal of Spatial Science, Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 119-146.

Ali, Zahir. (2012) "Assessing Usefulness of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) in GIS-based Cadastral Land Information System". In Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 111-114.

Ali, Zahir, Tuladhar, Arbind and Zevenbergen, Jaap. (2012) "An integrated approach for updating cadastral maps in Pakistan using satellite remote sensing data". In International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 18, Issue August 2012, Pages 386-398.

Ali, Zahir and Shakir, Muhammad. (2012) "Implementing GIS-based Cadastral and Land Information System in Pakistan". In Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 43-49.

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Shakir, M., Ali, Zahir and Alam, N. (2011) “Developing a Model for Locating Suitable School Sites using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis and GIS Techniques”. In 2nd International Conference on Aerospace Science & Engineering (ICASE), held on December 28‐30, 2011 in Islamabad, Pakistan

Ali, Zahir and Nasir, A. (2010) "Land Administration System in Pakistan - Current Situation and Stakeholders’ Perception". In Proceedings of the XXIV FIG International Congress 2010: Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity, held at Sydney, Australia from 11-16 April.

Ali, Zahir and Nasir, A. (2010) "Reliability is the Need of the Hour". In GIS Development - The Global Geospatial Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 30-32.

Ali, Zahir, Tuladhar, A.M. and Zevenbergen, J.A. (2010) “Developing a framework for improving the quality of a deteriorated land administration system based on an exploratory case study in Pakistan”. In Nordic journal of surveying and real estate research, Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 30-57.

Siddiqui, M. and Ali, Zahir (2002) “Integrated use of SRS Data &GIS Technique for Monitoring Changes in Riverine Forest of Sindh, Pakistan”. In 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held on 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.

Career Goals:

To explore new avenue and developments in the field of Cadastral and Land Information Systems.

To develop new techniques and methods in operational utilisation of Geo-ICT in the field of Cadastre and Land Information Systems.

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