Feras M. Ziadat

Feras Ziadat received the M.Sc. degree in soil conservation from the University of Jordan, and the Ph.D. degree in application of GIS and remote sensing for land use planning in arid areas from Cranfield University, U.K. After his Ph.D., he worked with the University of Jordan as Associate Professor in Land Resource Management, GIS and remote sensing for 8 years. He currently works as a Soil Conservation and Land Management Specialist with the Integrated Water and Land Management Program, ICARDA. He has published over 44 refereed journal and conference proceedings in the area of land and water resources management. His research interests include sustainable land resource management and environmental modeling and monitoring with emphasis on the application of GIS and remote sensing on soil-landscape modeling and digital soil mapping, integrated and participatory land use planning and land evaluation, land degradation and desertification, land use changes, and integrated watershed management.