Job Opportunity: Mapping Crew Leader

The Soil Survey project aims to get digital soil information to aid in broad land use planning and agricultural expansion in the Northern Emirates in the United Arab Emirates. The survey will take advantage of Geographic Information Systems, satellite image processing and technological advances in remote sensing, computers, terrain analysis, geostatistics, GIS data integration and instrumentation that will make it possible to achieve unprecedented reliability and utility in the digital soil and thematic maps.
 

The project will be completed at scale of 1:50,000 using soil survey norms and standards modified to fit Northern Emirates conditions to generate soil, number of thematic maps, irrigated agriculture suitability, salinity and current land use maps. The Soil survey information is expected to be used by various groups of users, like the agricultural farming community, policy makers and land use planners, officials, decision makers, engineers among others. Capacity building of national manpower in soil survey methodology, soil classification and in collecting, updating and interpreting soil survey data will be an important component of the project. 
 

The person will undertake coordination of all the logistical aspects of the site based soil survey activities, laboratory analyses and database management, and maintain technical oversight of the project operations.
 

The person will also maintain a hands-on role with field survey activities and coordinate the day to day activities of all survey teams and also assist the Project Manager/Team Leader with all project reporting.