John Duncan
Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Duncan is a Research Fellow with nine years’ experience applying GIS, remote sensing and geospatial machine learning to map land cover, land use and environmental change across Australia and low-income countries. He leads multi-modal deep learning projects that turn high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery into operational tools—ranging from parcel-level redevelopment heat mapping in major Australian cities to flood detection and on-farm dam simulation for climate resilience. His work blends open-source software development, cloud spatial data processing and capacity-building through teaching and government-facing training, and he routinely shepherds projects from algorithm to web app and policy-ready outputs. Notably, he has delivered scalable mapping systems used by national ministries in Tonga and Fiji, demonstrating an ability to translate technical research into practical, large-scale agricultural monitoring solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at University of SouthamptonMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Distinction at University of York
English
Github Skills (17)
explore8
shiny7
geospatial5
wfs5
qgis4
wps4
django4
synchronization4
team-management4
spatial4
dashboard3
osgeo3
wcs3
charts2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adv-gis-rs/gee-labs
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:14 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
livelihoods-and-landscapes/maplandscape
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Shiny application to explore geospatial data
Contributions:112 commits, 12 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year 7 months
geospatialexploreshinyrstatsgeospatial-data
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