Yuji Kato
Project Engineer at UMR LETG
Brest, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolYuji Kato is a project engineer based in Brest, France, with 10 years of hands-on experience in GIS, spatial analysis and statistics, primarily applied to coastal and marine planning. He has led SDI and metadata initiatives across academia and government projects, coordinating data working groups and deploying webmapping portals for stakeholder-driven coastal management. His background bridges rigorous statistical training with practical geomatics—evident from roles at SHOM, UMR LETG and IRD where he combined spatial analysis with project coordination and training. Known for identifying data gaps and shaping interoperable spatial infrastructures, he brings both field-focused domain knowledge and technical stewardship to multidisciplinary teams. An unusual strength is his long track record of metadata governance and SDI deployment, which repeatedly enables data-sharing across international research consortia.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Geomatics, Master's degree, Geomatics at Université d'Avignon et des Pays de VaucluseMaster 1, Geography, Master 1, Geography at Université Côte d'AzurLaurea, Statistics, Mathematics & Data Processing, Laurea, Statistics, Mathematics & Data Processing at Università degli Studi di GenovaLFJT
French, Italian, English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
spatial3
spatial-data2
geospatial2
owncloud2
gis2
georchestra1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Global-Paleofire-Working-Group/global-paleofire-database
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
katoyuji/oh_defi1
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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