dr. M.C. Chipofya (Malumbo)

Assistant Professor
ITC-PGM
Langezijds 1434
m.c.chipofya@utwente.nl
+31534894760
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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).

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Land
    • Land Right
    • Tool
    • Cartography
    • Purpose

  • Computer Science

    • Models
    • Application

  • Social Sciences

    • Land Tenure

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Publications

2024
Applying the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) for Integrated, Standardized, and Sustainable Development of Cadastre Country Profile for Pakistan, Article 883, 1-33. Ahsan, M. S., Hussain, E., Lemmen, C. H. J., Chipofya, M. C., Zevenbergen, J. A., Atif, S., Morales Guarin, J. M., Koeva, M. N. & Ali, Z.https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060883Community Land Registers for Internally Displaced Persons, South Darfur, Sudan: ICT SolutionIn FIG Working Week 2024 (pp. 1-17). International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). Ahmed, H., Todorovski, D. & Chipofya, M. C.Deriving requirements for integrated and standardised cadastre profile from the legacy Board of Revenue and the contemporary land administration systems, 1-21. Ahsan, M. S., Hussain, E., Lemmen, C. H. J., Zevenbergen, J. A., Atif, S., Chipofya, M. C., Ali, Z., Morales Guarin, J. M. & Koeva, M. N.https://doi.org/10.1080/00396265.2024.2351624Navigating the Terrain of Digital Transition: Ghana’s Journey of Developing a Digital Land Information System, Article 528, 1-28. Ansah, R. O., Abubakari, Z., Quaye, B., Todorovski, D., Chipofya, M. C. & Lemmen, C.https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040528
2022
LADM in the classroom: Making the land administration domain model accessible. Lemmen, C. H. J., Da Silva Mano, A. & Chipofya, M. C.Generalized, inaccurate,incomplete: How to comprehensively analyze sketch maps beyond their metric correctnessIn 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022). Dagstuhl. Schwering, A., Krukar, J., Manivannan, C., Chipofya, M. & Jan, S.https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.COSIT.2022.8
2021
SmartSkeMa: Scalable documentation for community and customary land tenure, Article 662, 1-21. Chipofya, M. C., Jan, S. & Schwering, A.https://doi.org/10.3390/land10070662SmartLandMaps: From customary tenure to land information systems, 1-12. Degbelo, A., Stöcker, C., Kundert, K. & Chipofya, M. C.Geospatial tool and geocloud platform innovations: A fit-for-purpose land administration assessment, Article 557, 1-23. Koeva, M. N., Humayun, M. I., Timm, C., Stöcker, C., Crommelinck, S., Chipofya, M. C., Bennett, R. & Zevenbergen, J. A.https://doi.org/10.3390/land10060557
2020
Local Domain Models for land tenure documentation and their interpretation into the LADM, Article 105005, 1-15. Chipofya, M. C., Karamesouti, M., Schultz, C. & Schwering, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105005

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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Courses academic year 2022/2023

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University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1434
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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