Board of Trustee of AARSE
Prof Jide Kufoniyi
Immediate past President
Professor of Geoinformatics, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria
- j.kufoniyi@africanremotesensing.org
Board of Trustee of AARSE
Prof Jide Kufoniyi
Immediate past President
Professor of Geoinformatics, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria
- j.kufoniyi@africanremotesensing.org
Prof Jide Kufoniyi is a Professor of Geoinformatics and the Pioneer & immediate past Head of Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has PhD in Geoinformatics, MSc with distinction in Photogrammetry, PGD with distinction in Photogrammetry, PGD in Surveying, and B.Sc. (Hons) in Geography. He was Rector of the Federal School of Surveying, Oyo, Nigeria from February 1998 to August 2000 and Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS), now called African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST), Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria from September 2000 to August 2008. Prof Kufoniyi is a registered Surveyor and Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Geoinformation Society of Nigeria (GEOSON) and Nigerian Cartographic Association (NCA). He is a member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academic Network, a member of the International Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS and a member of the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS).
Jide is the immediate Past President and Executive Committee member of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE).