Harmen Romeijn
- Associate
- Principal Consultant & Data Scientist
- Spatial Vision
- h.romeijn@veris.com.au
Principal Consultant & Data Scientist
Harmen is Veris’s Principal Consultant & Data Scientist and is a skilled analyst and modeller with over 15 years of experience in the Geospatial industry. He has a strong background in the delivery of spatial analysis and mapping tools, the ArcGIS environment, Python scripting, remote sensing analysis and the application of automation in modelling processes for large datasets and series.
This has most recently been applied in the spatial data modelling approaches and tools developed to implement climate change impact assessment projects having recently managed the technical components of Enhancing Climate Resilience in Communities and Asset Vulnerability Assessment for the 9 South-east Climate Change Council Alliance councils, and Resilient Public Estate – Asset Vulnerability Assessment for the Goulburn Murray Climate Alliance.
Harmen has also undertaken many of the ‘hands-on’ data modelling that underpins projects such as an analysis of the trends in extent, health, and condition of forests in NSW, and numerous climate change vulnerability studies, and the impact of climate change on the Victorian coast.
Harmen also recently undertood the modelling with support from RMIT University researchers for the Victorian Country Fire Authority to better understand and improve their knowledge of fires on private land, and to develop an accurate, consistent, and repeatable method to detect and delineate these fire occurrences using satellite imagery. A key outcome of this project was an improved understanding of fire and fire patterns across the landscape.
Harmen has also published several papers on Land Suitability Analysis and impacts of climate change on agricultural production.
Prior to joining Veris, he was employed as a Research Fellow at Deakin University working in the fields of Geospatial Climate Change Analysis and Agricultural Suitability Modelling. His primary research focus was centred on spatial modelling and analysis, as well as the modelling components and techniques of Land Suitability Analysis and its application to regional areas of Victoria in relation to climate change impacts on agricultural systems. He was also a Research Scientist with the Department of Primary Industries, where he assisted in the development and application of multiple Land Suitability Analysis models to investigate the climate change impacts on agricultural production and regional development.Harmen is Veris’s Principal Consultant and Data Scientist and is a skilled analyst and modeller with over 15 years of experience in the Geospatial Industry. He has a strong background in the delivery of spatial analysis and mapping tools, the ArcGIS environment, Python scripting and the application of automation in modelling processes for large datasets and series. This has most recently been applied in the spatial data modelling approaches and tools developed to implement climate change impact assessment projects having recently managed the technical components of Enhancing Climate Resilience in Communities and Asset Vulnerability Assessment for the 9 South-east Climate Change Council Alliance councils, and Resilient Public Estate – Asset Vulnerability Assessment for the Goulburn Murray Climate Alliance. Harmen has published several papers on Land Suitability analysis and impacts of climate change.
Prior to joining Veris, he was employed as a Research Fellow at Deakin University working in the fields of Geospatial Climate Change Analysis and Agricultural Suitability Modelling. His primary research focus was centred on spatial modelling and analysis, as well as the modelling components and techniques of Land Suitability Analysis and its application to regional areas of Victoria in relation to climate change impacts on agricultural systems. He was also a Research Scientist with the Department of Primary Industries, where he assisted in the development and application of multiple Land Suitability Analysis models to investigate the climate change impacts on agricultural production and regional development.
With his strong analytical background and thorough understanding of ESRI data, Harmen is Veris’s problem solver for geospatial data. In particular he has been using Python Scripting and ESRI geoprocessing to facilitate and speed up grid-based analysis.