Tomislav Hengl
Director & Co-founder at OpenGeoHub Foundation
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTomislav Hengl is a geospatial data scientist and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience translating pedometrics, geostatistics and geomorphometry into practical, web-based global soil mapping and open information systems. As co-founder and director of OpenGeoHub and technical director at EnvirometriX, he combines research leadership with hands-on development of probabilistic spatial mapping (PSM) methods and machine learning for spatial data. He led global soil information projects at ISRIC and has a strong academic foundation (PhD in pedometrics) that informs his emphasis on reproducible, open science and capacity building such as the OpenGeoHub summer schools. Based in Wageningen, he is notable for bridging rigorous spatial statistics with scalable web platforms, making complex soil science accessible to practitioners and policy makers.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Geoinformation for Sustainable Soil Resource Management, MSc, Geoinformation for Sustainable Soil Resource Management at Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)BSc, Forestry, BSc, Forestry at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuPhD, Pedometrics, GIS, geostatistics, PhD, Pedometrics, GIS, geostatistics at Wageningen University & Research
Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
environmental10
resolutions10
r10
machine-learning-algorithms10
sports-data10
soil10
r-package10
predictive10
compilation10
google-earth10
gis10
ocean9
clustering9
spatial9
feature-selection9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Envirometrix/LandGISmaps
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Processing of global environmental layers at various resolutions
Contributions:58 commits, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 4 months
resolutionslayersenvironmental
openlandmap/SoilSamples
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Soil Sample and Soil Profile Datasets: an Open Compilation
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
compilationhydrologyoceandatasetdatasets
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