dr. M.C. Chipofya (Malumbo)

I am Assistant Professor of Land Informatics within the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management. My work has previously focused on application of Qualitative Spatial Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to spatial map alignment (the discovery of correspondences between a pair of maps); modeling customary and other non-statutory land tenure systems (as contrasted with modern legal land tenure categories); and Computer Vision methods for semantic sketch understanding (this is applied in the context of sketch based land tenure mapping).

My current interests in terms of both research and application include design and implementation of information systems to support customary land tenure information management; and distributed and decentralized systems in geographic information acquisition, distribution, and management.

Technically my work involves the application of methods from Graph matching, Knowledge representation including ontology modeling with owl and logic programming with ASP, foundational computer vision techniques, and I am now increasingly employing tools from the distributed and decentralized systems domain (hashtable based data distribution techniques, consensus models and algorithms, network structures and data routing).

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Alignment
# Documentation
# Land
# Land Rights
# Land Tenure

Mathematics

# Alignment
# Spatial Networks

Engineering & Materials Science

# Algebra

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM)

Lemmen, C. H. J. , Da Silva Mano, A. , & Chipofya, M. C. (2022). LADM in the classroom: Making the land administration domain model accessible. Paper presented at 27th FIG Congress 2022, Warsaw, Poland.

Schwering, A., Krukar, J., Manivannan, C. , Chipofya, M., & Jan, S. (2022). Generalized, inaccurate,incomplete: How to comprehensively analyze sketch maps beyond their metric correctness. In T. Ishikawa, S. I. Fabrikant, & S. Winter (Eds.), 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022) Dagstuhl. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.COSIT.2022.8

Degbelo, A. , Stöcker, C., Kundert, K. , & Chipofya, M. C. (2021). SmartLandMaps: From customary tenure to land information systems. 1-12. Paper presented at FIG e-Working Week 2021.

Chipofya, M. C., Jan, S., & Schwering, A. (2021). SmartSkeMa: Scalable documentation for community and customary land tenure. Land, 10(7), 1-21. Article 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10070662

Koeva, M. N., Humayun, M. I., Timm, C. , Stöcker, C. , Crommelinck, S. , Chipofya, M. C. , Bennett, R. , & Zevenbergen, J. A. (2021). Geospatial tool and geocloud platform innovations: A fit-for-purpose land administration assessment. Land, 10(6), 1-23. Article 557. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10060557

Chipofya, M. C., Karamesouti, M., Schultz, C., & Schwering, A. (2020). Local Domain Models for land tenure documentation and their interpretation into the LADM. Land use policy, 99, 1-15. Article 105005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105005

Koeva, M. N. , Stöcker, C. , Crommelinck, S. , Chipofya, M. C., Kundert, K., Schwering, A., Sahib, J., Zein, T., Timm, C., Humayun , M., Crompvoets, J., Tan, E., Casiano, C., & Nkerabigwi, P. (2020). Innovative geospatial solutions for land tenure mapping. Rwanda Journal of Engineering, Science, Technology and Environment, 3(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.4314/rjeste.v3i1.3S

Koeva, M. , Stöcker, C. , Crommelinck, S., Ho, S., Jan, S. , Bennett, R. , Zevenbergen, J. , Vosselman, G. , Lemmen, C., Crompvoets, J., Buntinx, I., Wayumba, G., Wayumba, R., Odwe, P. O., Osewe, G. T., Chika, B., Pattyn, V. , & Chipofya, M. C. (2020). Innovative remote sensing methodologies for Kenyan land tenure mapping. Remote sensing, 12(2), 1-27. Article 273. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12020273

Stöcker, C. , Crommelinck, S. , Chipofya, M., Jan, S., Buntinx, I. , Casiano, C. , Koeva, M., & Stroeven, C. (2019). Innovative geospatial technologies to enhance land tenure security in Kenya: Workshop Report. Its4land.

Crompvoets, J. , Koeva, M. , Crommelinck, S. , Stöcker, C., Ho, S. , Casiano, C., Schwering, A. , Chipofya, M., Jan, S., Zein, T., Timm, C., Kundert, K., Nkerabigwi, P. , Alemie, B., & Wayumba, R. (2019). Its4land - Innovative Geospatial Tools for Fit-for-Purpose Land Rights Mapping. In Proceedings of the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 University of Twente.

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The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Langezijds 1434
P.O. Box 217
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The Netherlands

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management (PGM)

University of Twente Drienerlolaan 5
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