Meet the Team

The Landmap team is based at Mimas, University of Manchester.

Kamie Kitmitto Landmap Manager Kamie is responsible for the day-to-day running and management of the Landmap Service and has worked for Mimas for 21 years. Key responsibilities include: strategic approach of the service; knowledge gathering at outreach activities;negotiation of data licensing agreements and the purchase of datasets. He is also the Principal Investigator of European Space Agency (ESA) Category 1 Project 'Monitoring the UK with ASAR & MERIS.
		Gail Millin-Chalabi Geodata Research & Development Officer Gail has been working for Landmap since 2005 developing:data clients using both open source and proprietary software; data management implementing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards; metadata and coordinating the development of e-learning content. Previous projects include the JISC funded Interoperability Project, Grid Enabling Mimas II Project and GeoKnowledge Project. She is also the Co-Investigator of ESA Category 1 Project 'Monitoring the UK with ASAR & MERIS'. Gail uses the ERDAS APOLLO Data Manager for configuring and delivering the satellite, airborne and feature data hosted at Mimas through Landmap Kaia. She is also involved in the development of the Learning Zone and writes bids, conference papers and reports for the service.
Yin Tun Geo-Metadata Officer Yin Tun is currently working on the JISC funded Metadata Enhancements Project. Her role is to convert FGDC standard metadata to the ISO standard and to further enhance the metadata by liasing with data providers such as ESA, The GeoInformation Group and Bluesky. Previous to this role Yin worked on the Landmap Learning Zone adding content for the Object Oriented Classification course. Yin also assists with outreach activities when required.
		James Schumm Software Development Engineer James has been at Landmap since 2007. Previous to this role James worked for ESDS International. One of his tasks is the installation and configuration of ERDAS APOLLO/Landmap Kaia. James also works on the maintenance of the database for the Landmap website and is involved in the development of the user and institutional registration process. James provides any other technical support required by the team such as the creation of web forms, permissions and programming knowledge/expertise.
Bharti Gupta Java Programmer Bharti is a software developer and joined Mimas based at University of Manchester in 2008. She became part of the Landmap team in 2010 to assist with the enterprise level application APOLLO/Landmap Kaia developments. She has established a lightweight Scrum project management process and developed/customised robust enterprise level application components in Java, J2EE using MVC 2 framework, here in Mimas as well as in previous commercial organisations. One of her key roles has been in the customising, configuring and testing of the enterprise Java application ERDAS APOLLO/Landmap Kaia. Bharti has a keen interest on how Open Data can be used within the Landmap Service architecture and introduced /became involved in the Linked Data project to make the Landmap geo-spatial metadata available.