José Luis Ornelas de Anda

José Luis Ornelas de Anda

He is a Biologist, from the Biological Sciences National School of the National Polytechnic Institute, and has graduate studies in Ecology at the same school. 

He joined the then Directorate General for Research of the National Territory, in 1981 as a photo interpreter, participating in the Land Use and Vegetation National Mapping program.  A fundamental part of the Vegetation mapping was the field work in most of the ecological regions of Mexico. 

He subsequently held various positions in the Geographic Database area, collaborating in the transition from analogue maps to digital geospatial information production and dissemination. In the area of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing applications he coordinated the structuring of the National Hydrographic Network in the 1: 50,000 scale, the orthorectification processes of SPOT imagery for the whole country, as well as the implementation of several web services to facilitate access to geospatial data from INEGI.   

From 2012 to 2023 was the Director of Natural Resources, responsible of the National Mapping Programs for natural resources: like Water, Soils, Vegetation and Land Use, Geological risks and Climate. 

In 2023 joined the Research division from INEGI as a researcher, and is in charge of developing a new, improved and efficient method for Vegetation and Land Use Mapping, taking advantage of field knowledge about the vegetation, diverse remote sensing and other geospatial data layers (Landsat Imagery, Digital Elevation Models, Bioclimate and other variables) and Deep Learning tools. 

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