I am an urban and regional planner with expertise in geospatial analysis, data visualization, research and Python development.
I currently work as a GIS analyst on survey, infrastructure and planning projects.
I’m interested in using GIS and spatial analysis to guide how cities grow and to help communities prepare for environmental risks such as flooding and climate change. My research follows that interest, with published work on climate adaptation and current work on flood risk in Lagos.
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, and open to opportunities globally.
Maps, spatial analysis and spatial databases for planning and infrastructure projects, in ArcGIS and QGIS.
Processing aerial imagery, photogrammetry and LiDAR data into orthomosaics, elevation models and topographic data.
Python scripts, Django and FastAPI apps, and browser-based tools that automate GIS workflows and put spatial data in front of users. Three of these are live in Work below.
Flood risk, climate adaptation and community participation in planning, published in peer-reviewed journals.
Find routes from community hubs in Lagos to nearby destinations. Choose a hub and a destination to see the route, distance and travel time. You can limit results to a 1 km buffer, use your location, open directions in Google Maps and share a link to any route.
A crop health platform for vegetable farmers. Pick a crop, the affected part and the symptoms you see, and the symptom checker ranks likely diseases, pests and deficiencies with a match score and treatment options. It also has a searchable disease directory and a field map for saving farm boundaries.
Create a free account to use the symptom checker. Hosted on Render’s free plan, so the first visit can take up to a minute to load.
Convert shapefiles to KML in bulk. Upload ZIP files and each one is checked for a complete shapefile set before conversion. You get one KML per shapefile in a single ZIP, and nothing is uploaded to a server.
Extracts processing and accuracy figures from Agisoft Metashape PDF reports into Excel.
ACLED conflict data from 2010 to 2025 in local governments with gold deposits across five states.
Rainfall variability in the Benue River sub-basin.
Tap any point to see what I did there. Use the buttons to show or hide each layer.
Boundaries, rivers and lakes from Natural Earth. Pins mark the project site, study area or campus.
Aerial Advantage Global · Lagos
GISCleric International · Fully remote
Segdam Planning Services Limited · Osun
OEA Consults Ltd · Lagos
Cooperative Information Network (COPINE), NASRDA · Ile-Ife
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta
My research focuses on urban vulnerability and flood risk, climate adaptation, environmental quality, and community participation in planning and disaster risk management.
From my study on flood risk vulnerability in Lagos Island Local Government Area. The map classes the area into low, medium and high flood risk, and I checked it against 20 random ground-truth points.
Terra Praxis 7(1)
International Journal of Engineering, Management and Humanities 6(3)
First author
Sprout Advocacy Foundation
Homeless not Hopeless Initiatives
Lend a Hand for Africa
ScholarNurture
Open to roles and projects in urban planning, GIS and data, on-site, hybrid or remote.
hello@josephigharo.com