Steve Keyworth

Steve is a director of Environment Systems and a geographic information consultant with technical and policy skills related to GIS and remote sensing. Steve has responsibility for Environment Systems' business development.

Steve has over twelve years experience of geographic information management and application across rural and urban sectors.  Steve has strategic and technical consultancy skills in GIS and remote sensing combined with demonstrated project management expertise.  Steve’s experience ranges from strategic landscape scale projects to large scale, parcel level studies. 

Wider role

Steve is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog GIS) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Steve is a PhD supervisor for research part funded by Environment Systems, and is a work placement assessor for the Aberystwyth University Masters courses in GIS and Remote Sensing.  He is also a member of the Employers Advisory Panel at the University of Leicester, providing advice to GIS Masters students.

 Recent projects Steve has been involved with include;

• developing a strategic database of publicly accessible woodland for the UK
• development and implementation of satellite-based and GIS methods for mapping vegetation in Wales
• a major land and property referencing exercise for the London 2012 Olympics
• analysis of landscape and ortho photos to develop indicators for a landscape classification of Europe

Background

After graduating with a degree in Geographical Science from the Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, Steve joined ADAS, then a government agency, and gained experience working within the public sector. In 1997 the agency was subject to a management buyout creating a consultancy where Steve worked as a GIS / Mapping consultant and manager.

This BBC online article outlines the Berwyn Mountains habitat mapping project that Steve worked on. The project used innovative techniques to map the land using satellite imagery. An approach that provides opportunities for huge savings over traditional field survey techniques.

Steve is actively involved with the Association of Geographic Information (AGI) Cymru and was the chair of the AGI Cymru steering group in 2005.