{"id":11897,"date":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/muthoni-francis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:14:26","slug":"muthoni-francis","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/muthoni-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Muthoni, Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Dr Francis Muthoni est un scientifique sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans les SIG et la t\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection, avec plus de 20 ans d'exp\u00e9rience en science g\u00e9ospatiale. Francis est titulaire d'un doctorat en \u00e9cologie spatiale de l'Universit\u00e9 de Twente, aux Pays-Bas (2014). Il est titulaire d'une ma\u00eetrise en g\u00e9oinformation et observation de la terre pour la mod\u00e9lisation et la gestion environnementales de l'Universit\u00e9 de Twente (2010) et d'une licence en g\u00e9ographie de l'Universit\u00e9 Moi, au Kenya (2003). Il a rejoint l'IITA en tant que chercheur postdoctoral \u2013 sp\u00e9cialiste SIG en 2015. De 2022 \u00e0 2025, il a dirig\u00e9 un lot de travaux mondial sur le suivi de l'\u00e9tat, des tendances et de la dynamique des syst\u00e8mes de cultures mixtes dans les pays du Sud. Ses int\u00e9r\u00eats de recherche int\u00e8grent des donn\u00e9es de terrain et d'observation de la terre \u00e0 l'aide de l'intelligence artificielle et de mod\u00e8les bas\u00e9s sur les processus pour d\u00e9velopper des outils d'aide \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision spatialement explicites et des syst\u00e8mes d'alerte pr\u00e9coce afin de soutenir la gestion des ressources naturelles fond\u00e9e sur des donn\u00e9es probantes et l'adaptation au changement climatique dans les syst\u00e8mes socio-\u00e9cologiques. Ses autres centres d'int\u00e9r\u00eat incluent le suivi spatio-temporel des tendances de la d\u00e9gradation des terres, du changement climatique, des rendements des cultures et de la mod\u00e9lisation de la distribution des esp\u00e8ces. Il applique des mod\u00e8les de dynamique des syst\u00e8mes pour favoriser la compr\u00e9hension des interactions complexes et des r\u00e9troactions dans les agro-\u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes qui sont n\u00e9cessaires pour \u00e9valuer des sc\u00e9narios politiques alternatifs. Il a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 consultant pour le GFA Consulting Group sur un projet de l'IGAD (d'avril \u00e0 juin 2015). Auparavant, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 charg\u00e9 des SIG au sein du projet sur les \u00e9l\u00e9phants de Laikipia de l'Universit\u00e9 de Cambridge (2007 \u00e0 2008).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Francis Muthoni is a GIS and Remote Sensing Scientist with over 20 years of experience in geospatial science. 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