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 Professor Raul Ponce-HernandezB.Eng., National School of Agriculture (Mexico) Research and Teaching Interests:
Selected Recent Publications: Ponce-Hernandez, R. and P. Koohafkan (2008) A methodological framework for land degradation assessment at multiple scales based on the DPSIR approach: Experiences from applications to case studies in drylands. Keynote paper. In Zdruli, P. and E. Constantini (Eds.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Land Degradation. Valenzano, Bari, Italy. Vol 1, pp 374 and Vol 2 pp 604. ISBN: 2-85352-399-3 Ponce-Hernandez, R. and O. Ahmed (2008) A Bayesian network approach to finding the likely causes of land degradation based on DPSIR indicators and field observations. In Zdruli, P. and E. Constantini (Eds.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Land Degradation. Valenzano, Bari, Italy. Vol 1, pp 374 and Vol 2 pp 604. ISBN: 2-85352-399-3 Ponce-Hernandez, R. (2007) Soil-CV SDSS: A Spatial Decision Support System for modelling Carbon dynamics and other Green-House-Gases (GHG) in soils of natural and intervened landscapes at multiple scales. Pp 213 – 232. In: Gallardo-Lancho et al (eds) “Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems of IberoAmerica”. National Council for Scientific Research, Spain and Ibero-American Society of Applied Chemistry and Physics. Salamanca, Spain. ISBN: 978-84-611-9622-7 Ponce-Hernández, R., D. Dent, A. Asfary, C. Giri, K. Govil, A. Hartemink, P. Holmgren, F. Keita-Ouane, S. Navone, L. Olsson, J. Rockstrom and G. Shepherd (2007) Chapter 3 “Land”, pp 84-110., In: “Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4): Environment for Development”, United Nations Environment Program. Nairobi, Kenya, 540 pp. ISBN: 978-92-807-2836-1. |
Raul Ponce-Hernandez's primary research interests are in the field of geomatics, the use of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and spatial modelling to acquire and manage spatially referenced data. He integrates multiple applications to the inventory, assessment and evaluation of natural resources (particularly land) for resource planning, management and conservation. Prof. Ponce-Hernandez also studies spatial statistics and the computer spatial modelling of natural and human-induced processes in the context of watershed management and Spatial Decision Support Systems. Currently, he is involved in projects related to the impacts of climate change on land degradation at national and global scales and on developing software models for land evaluation and land use planning for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prof. Ponce-Hernandez teaches courses in GIS at the introductory and upper undergraduate levels, soil management and integrated watershed management in the Departments of Geography and Environmental and Resources Science/Studies.