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Mohammed bin Yahya Al-Sayel has been appointed because the regional coordinator for the Arab international locations on the Worldwide Society for Photogrammetry and Distant Sensing, after a royal decree accredited his nomination.

Al-Sayel, who can be the president of the Kingdom’s Basic Authority for Survey and Geospatial Info since 2021, was nominated for his new place by ISPRS’s board of administrators.

The Basic Authority is remitted with growing nationwide capacities within the sector, in cooperation with universities and specialised institutes inside and out of doors the Kingdom. That is along with coordination and cooperation with its counterparts in different international locations, worldwide our bodies and organizations associated to the sector.

ISPRS is a non-governmental group dedicated to the event of worldwide cooperation for the development of photogrammetry, distant sensing and their purposes.

Al-Sayel obtained a bachelor’s diploma in civil engineering in 1984 from Roger Williams College, Rhode Island, US. He additionally obtained a excessive diploma in geodesy and map manufacturing from the Royal Faculty of Navy Survey.

He was granted a grasp’s diploma in geomatics in 1994 from the College of Toronto, Canada, and obtained a doctorate in surveying engineering and geospatial data from Leibniz College Hannover, Germany.

Al-Sayel has taken quite a few superior coaching programs on geographic data and world positioning methods. He attended a number of coaching programs on negotiations and boundary delimitation at Durham College within the UK.

Al-Sayel, who’s each the CEO of High quality Geospatial Engineering Co. and Imaginative and prescient Intelligence, a digital sustainability solution-providing firm, has risen within the navy to the rank of main normal and was an assistant director on the Basic Directorate of Navy Survey. He was additionally the pinnacle of the boundaries and paperwork division.

He’s the secretary-general of the Cooperative Society of Moringa and Desert Vegetation, one of many first Saudi cooperative societies aiming at growing the nation’s vegetation. Al-Sayel is a guide member of the Saudi Council of Engineers and a member of the American Imaging and Geospatial Info Society, in addition to the Worldwide Society for Photogrammetry and Distant Sensing.