BOOK CHAPTERS |PUBLICATIONS (SCI INDEXED)

1. AlThuwaynee, O. F. & Pradhan, B. Landslides: Causes, Mapping, and Monitoring: Examples from Malaysia in “Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides”. Singh, R., & Bartlett, D. (Eds.). CRC Press. 2018.(Cited by:3)
2. AlThuwaynee, Omar F., and Biswajeet Pradhan. "An Alternative Technique for Landslide Inventory Modelling Based on Spatial Pattern Characterization." Geoinformation for Informed Decisions. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 35-48.(Cited by:5)

 Research articles |PUBLICATIONS (SCI INDEXED)

1. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B. & Lee, S. 2012. Application of an Evidential Belief Function Model In Landslide Susceptibility Mapping. Computers &Geosciences, 44, 120-135. (I.F= 2.562). .(Cited by:262)
2. Hassaballa, A., AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B. 2013. Extraction Of Soil Moisture From Radarsat-1 And Its Role In The Formation Of The 6 December 2008 Landslide At Bukit Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 1-10. (I.F= 1.152). .(Cited by:0)
3. Al-shalabi, M., Pradhan, B., Billa, L., Mansor, S., & AlThuwaynee, O. F. 2013. Manifestation of remote sensing data in modeling urban sprawl using the SLEUTH model and brute force calibration: a case study of Sana’a city, Yemen. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 41(2), 405-416. .(Cited by:30)
4. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B., Park, H.-J. & Lee, J. H. 2014. A Novel Ensemble Bivariate Statistical Evidential Belief Function with Knowledge-Based Analytical Hierarchy Process and Multivariate Statistical Logistic Regression for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping. Catena, 114, 21-36. (I.F= 2.482). .(Cited by:265)
5. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B., Park, H.-J. & Lee, J. 2014. A Novel Ensemble Decision Tree-Based Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) and Multivariate Logistic Regression Models in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping. Landslides, 1-16. (I.F= 2.814). .(Cited by:115)
6. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B.  Ahmad, N. 2014 “Estimation of rainfall threshold and its use in landslide hazard mapping of Kuala Lumpur metropolitan and surrounding areas”. Landslides, 1-16. .(Cited by:38)
7. AlThuwaynee, Omar F., Biswajeet Pradhan, and Saro Lee. 2016 "A novel integrated model for assessing landslide susceptibility mapping using CHAID and AHP pair-wise comparison." International Journal of Remote Sensing 37.5: 1190-1209. (I.F= 1.640). .(Cited by:60)
8. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B.  2017. Semi quantitative landslide risk analysis of infrastructure losses using medium-scale study area: Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk (TGNH) (I.F= 1.19). .(Cited by:17)
9. Kutubuddin Ansari, AlThuwaynee, Omar F., and Ozsen Corumluoglu. 2016.” Monitoring and Prediction of Precipitable Water Vapor using GPS data in Turkey”. Journal of Applied Geodesy. .(Cited by:13)
10. Devkota, K.C., Regmi, A.D., Pourghasemi, H.R., Yoshida, K., Pradhan, B., Ryu, I.C., Dhital, M.R. and AlThuwaynee, O.F., 2013. Landslide susceptibility mapping using certainty factor, index of entropy and logistic regression models in GIS and their comparison at Mugling–Narayanghat road section in Nepal Himalaya. Natural Hazards, 65(1), pp.135-165. (I.F= 1.746) .(Cited by:439)
11. Ansari K., Panda S.K., AlThuwaynee O. F., and O. Corumluoglu. (2017).” Ionospheric TEC from the Turkish Permanent GNSS Network (TPGN) and comparison with ARMA and IRI models” Astrophysics and Space Science. 362: 178. DOI: 10.1007/s10509-017-3159-z (I.F= 1.622). .(Cited by:18)
12. AlThuwaynee, Omar F., Omer Asikoglu, and Ebru Eris., (2018) “Threshold contours production of rainfall that induces landslides in susceptible regions of northern Turkey”. Landslides. .(Cited by:3)
13. Ali Aydda  , Ahmed Algouti , Omar F. AlThuwaynee , Abdellah Algouti ,(2017). Evolution of sand encroachment in the Laâyoune-Tarfaya basin (Morocco) over the 1987-2011 period using supervised classifications of Landsat data. Geocarto International, 1-16. (I.F=1.45) .(Cited by:1)
14. Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Abdul-Lateef Balogun, Wesam Al Madhoun. (2020) ” Air Pollution Hazard Assessment using Decision Tree Algorithms and Bivariate Probability Cluster Polar Function: Evaluating Inter-Correlation Clusters of PM10 and other air pollutants”. GISceince and Remote sensing.(Q1, I.F=3.5) .(Cited by:1)
15. Badal Pokharel, Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Ali Aydda, Sang-Wan Kim, Samsung Lim, Hyuck-Jin Park, (2020) Spatial clustering and modelling for landslide susceptibility mapping in the north of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Landslides, 1-17. (I.F=4.2). .(Cited by:0)
16. Balogun, A. L., Mohd Said, S. A., Sholagberu, A. T., Aina, Y. A., AlThuwaynee, O. F., & Aydda, A. (2020). Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for land cover mapping and sustainable development in Malaysia using error matrix and unbiased area Estimation. Geocarto International, 1-21.
17. Abdul-Lateef Balogun , Shamsudeen Temitope Yekeen, Biswajeet Pradhan, Omar F. AlThuwaynee, (2020) ” Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Oil Spill Impact and Recovery Pattern of Coastal Vegetation and Wetland Using Multispectral Satellite Landsat 8-OLI Imagery and Machine Learning Models”. Remote sensing (Q1, I.F=4.2) .(Cited by:3)
18. Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Badal Pokharel, Ali Aydda, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun and Sang-Wan Kim. (2020)"Spatial identification and temporal prediction of air pollution sources using conditional bivariate probability function and time series signature." Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology 1-18. (Q1, I.F=3.5). .(Cited by:0)
19. Abdul-Lateef Balogun, Shamsudeen Temitope Yekeen, Biswajeet Pradhan Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Sang-Wan Kim. (2020) “A Systematic Review of the Causes and Environmental Impacts of Oil Spill: Examining the potentials of Digitalization in Disaster Management”. Environmental Research Letters (submitted).
20. Mungu Bertrand, Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Xie Zhong, Solomon Asante, Sang Wan Kim (2020) ” Two-Step analytical Approaches To uncertainty reduction in predictor's correlation of Flood Susceptibility Mapping”. Computers and Geosciences (Submitted).
21. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Aydda, A., Hwang, I. T., Lee, Y. K., Kim, S. W., Park, H. J., ... & Park, Y. (2021). Uncertainty Reduction of Unlabeled Features in Landslide Inventory Using Machine Learning t-SNE Clustering and Data Mining Apriori Association Rule Algorithms. Applied Sciences, 11(2), 556.
22. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Kim, S. W., Najemaden, M. A., Aydda, A., Balogun, A. L., Fayyadh, M. M., & Park, H. J. (2021). Demystifying uncertainty in PM10 susceptibility mapping using variable drop-off in extreme-gradient boosting (XGB) and random forest (RF) algorithms. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-23.
23. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Aydda, A., Hwang, I. T., Lee, Y. K., Kim, S. W., Park, H. J.,(2021). LaGriSU tool pack for the automatic extraction of grid units and slope units: application to Inje Province (South Korea). (Submitted)
24. Sarrah Ezaidi,  Ali Aydda, Belkacim Kabbachi, Omar F. AlThuwaynee.. Sang-Wan Kim. (2021).“Multi-temporal Landsat-derived NDVI for vegetation cover changes for the period 1984-2018 in part of the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve (Morocco) (Submitted).
25. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Aydda, A., Lambardo L., Mohajane M., Quevedo R.P., Kim, S. W., Park, H. J.,(2021). Automatic Extraction of Reference Rain Gauges and Thresholds For Rainfall-Induced Landslides Hazards Using DEWS and CTRL-T. (Submitted)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS |PUBLICATIONS

1. Sinan Jasim Hadi, Omar AlThuwaynee, Helmi Zulhaidi, Biswajeet Pradhan. 2011. The Use of GPS In Mitigating and Managing Landslides. In:  Proceedings Of 10th International Symposium & Exhibition On Geoinformation 2011 (ISG 2011),. Universiti Teknologi Mara, 18.
2. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B., Mahmud, A. R. & Yusoff, Z. M. 2012. Prediction of Slope Failures Using Bivariate Statistical Based Index of Entropy Model. In:  Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2012 IEEE Colloquium On, 2012. IEEE, 362-367.
3. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B. 2013 Ensemble of Statistical EBF Into A Knowledge Based AHP For Slopes Failures Mapping. The 34th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), Bali, Indonesia. (SCOPUS).
4. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Pradhan, B. 2014 Ensemble of data-driven EBF model with knowledge based AHP model for slope failure assessment in GIS using cluster pattern inventory. In: FIG Congress 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
5. AlThuwaynee, O.F., Pradhan, B., Ahmad, N., Landslide susceptibility mapping using decision-tree based CHi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) and Logistic regression (LR) integration. 2014. The 7th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition on Remote Sensing & GIS (IGRSM 2014), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (SCOPUS).
6. Omar AlThuwaynee, Walter Musakwa, Trynos Gumbo and Selcuk Reis. 2017. Applicability of R statistics in analyzing landslides spatial patterns in Northern Turkey       . In:  The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA 2017). Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.(Cited by:4)
7. Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Trynos Gumbo. Classification of Air pollutants API inter-correlation using Decision tree algorithms. The4thinternational symposium on infrastructure development2018, Indonesia.
8. Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Trynos Gumbo. Evaluating the Applicability of Conditional Bivariate Probability Function for Air Pollutants Sources Identification. The4thinternational symposium on infrastructure development2018, Indonesia.
9. Ali Aydda, Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Badal Pokharel. “An easy method for barchan dunes automatic extraction from multispectral satellite data”. MNSAT - The International Conference on Micro and NanoSatellites 2018. Morocco.
10. Sinan Jasim Hadi, Mustafa Tombul, Omar AlThuwaynee ”Trend of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) over Turkey” DOI: 10.1117/12.2502163. SPIE Remote Sensing 2018 ESTREL Congress Centre Berlin, Germany
11. Omar AlThuwaynee, Badal Pokharel, Ali Aydda and Sinan Jasim Hadi “Perceptual structure and patterns modelling of aftershock induced Landslides” submitted to 4th International Sustainable Buildings Symposium (ISBS 2019) Dallas, USA.
12. Omar F. AlThuwaynee, Intak S. , Hyuck-Jin Park , Sang-Wan Kim ,Ali Aydda “Dormant and Active Landslides Classification Using Machine Learning Algorithms Coupled With Geological Field Inspection: Pohang Case Study” 2020.EGU General Assembly 2020 (3-8 May 2020, Austria Vienna Center ACV, Vienna),NH3.7 - Space and Time Forecasting of Landslides.
13. AlThuwaynee, O. F., Aydda, A., Hwang, I. T., Lee, Y. K., Kim, S. W., Park, H. J., ... & Park, Y. (2021). Uncertainty reduction of unlabeled landslide inventory using t-SNE clustering and data mining Apriori Association Rules ML algorithms. Proceedings of KSEG 2020 Fall Conference / November 16 - 17, 2020. At: Danyang-gun 단양군 Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.

 PhD thesis

Spatial prediction of landslide hazards and risk areas using integrated statistical and datamining approaches http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/47970/1/FK%202014%2021R.pdf https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bLdkUoNRuVoqyqvvojs6pIupJAx7a6oY

Omar F. AlThuwaynee’s has a MEng in Civil engineering and  PhD in GIS and Geomatics engineering applications, especially with research focuses on the modelling and observation of Natural and Anthropogenic hazards and risk assessment, as well as vulnerability of landuses. The aim of his research is to use the machine learning approaches with GIS/geospatial tools to gain a better understanding of geological and environmental processes. Dr AlThuwaynee is active in field-based measurement, process based and coupled geohazards and environmental modelling, spatial analysis and susceptibility mapping.

Omar F. AlThuwaynee 

PhD in GIS and Geomatics engineering 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2010-2014                      PhD. GIS & Geomatics Engineering 

      Civil engineering dep. Faculty of engineering, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

2008-2010                        M.Eng. , Civil Engineering and Built Environment

      Faculty of engineering and Built Environment, University Kebangsaan  Malaysia

2002-2006                           B.Sc. (Hons.), Building and Managing Engineering Projects  

      University of Technology, Iraq

1996-2002                       High school

      Baghdad college, Iraq 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

11.2021 - Present                  Research fellow

​Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection IRPI, Perugia, Italy.

10.2019 – 10.2021                 Post-doctoral research fellow

Energy and Mineral Resources Engineering Departments / Geoformation Department, Sejong university, Seoul, Korea.

Jan. 2020 – Present              Chief Executive officer (CEO)

Scientist adoption academy (scadacademy.com). Researchers Group-based Academic Network, where they meet to start the action | We are looking to have Groups of solutions, for each problem in our world.

07.2018 - 03.2019                 Faculty member

Lecturer at Faculty of Applied Sciences & Department Real Estate Development and Management, Ankara University, Turkey.

01.2018 - Present                 E-Learning instructor

E-learning educational platform, focusing on Geomatics courses delivery. Udemy.com

07.2017 - 07.2018                Post-doctoral research fellow

Department of town and regional planning Faculty of engineering and the built environment University of Johannesburg, South Africa

01.2015- 02.2017                 Faculty member

Senior Lecturer in GIS and Cartography: Department of Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey

06.2012  -  12.2012              Tutor-Marker

 RADAR image processing for part time including computer laboratory technical sessions. University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

03.2008  -  01.2009              Regional GIS Trainer

Consulting engineer for government GIS projects. RTI International, Salah Aldeen province, Iraq

01.2008  -  10.2008                Projects supervisor:

Monitor and assess the progress of construction projects in regional sector. Ministry of Trade, Iraq

  TEACHING EXPERINCE and CREATIVITY

2014-2016                              GE101 Introduction to Geomatics Engineering

ENS300 Engineering Ethics 

GE208 Computer Mapping

GE207 Principles of Cartography

1^st , 3^rd,6^th, Semesters undergraduate program | Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey)

GE302 Geographic Information Systems

GE417 R programming in spatial data analysis

GE414 GIS in disaster and natural hazards

GE625 Geographic Information Systems

GE500, GE589 Special Studies and MSc Thesis

NAS502 Research Methods in Engineering

Graduates program| Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey)

2018-2019                               GIS and Remote sensing in real estate

Site selection in real estate development

Graduates program | Ankara University, Turkey

• Automatic extraction of training samples for Prediction maps
• QGIS Tools to Automatically Generate Training & Testing Data 
• How to use ANN for prediction mapping using GIS data?
• Step-by-Step of Precipitation Thresholds for Slopes failures
• Prediction Maps & Validation using Logistic Regression & ROC
• How to Produce Prediction Map in GIS With ArcGIS and Excel?

Prediction mapping using GIS data and Advanced ML algorithms

Total students: 828 | average score 4.4 out 5| Udemy e-learning instructor (https://www.udemy.com/user/omar-f-althuwaynee/)

2017- present                        Machine learning in Geospatial modelling, short courses

E-learning channel Scientists Adoption Academy | Total videos: 30; 1500 Subscribers| YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzB_6jUYsWO1HP1hG0RbyeA)

 EDITING AND PEER REVIEW EXPERINCE

2017-Present                         Editor

Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides (I.F =3.5) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-018-1013-1  

2020                                             Guest Editor

Remote Sensing Journal (I.F=4.5), special issue ” RADAR applications in Wetlands”

2011- Present                         Reviewer (a summary by publons.com)

https://publons.com/researcher/3372936/omar-althuwaynee/  

  AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Dec. 2019                  Presenter and organizer

Seminar: “Cross-scale Regionalization of Geospatial Data & Machine Learning”, Geo-information and Energy and Mineral Resources Engineering Departments, Sejong university, Seoul, South Korea (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzB_6jUYsWO1HP1hG0RbyeA)

2019                         International scientific committee

DALLAS CHAPTER OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS (AIA) 4th INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS SYMPOSIUM (ISBS 2019) NORTH TEXAS SUSTAINABLE SHOWCASE (NTSS 2019) http://www.isbs2019.gazi.edu.tr/

Oct. 2017                       International scientific committee

International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom|http://www.ickea.org

Sep. 2015                   Presenter and organizer

Seminar: GIS and Remote sensing seminar with Prof. Anthony Vodacek (Rochester institute of technology, USA), Faculty of engineering and architecture, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey (http://haberita.com/ikcu-cbs-ve-uzaktan-algilama-semineri.html)

2014                         Presenter

Landslide susceptibility mapping using decision-tree based CHi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) and Logistic regression (LR) integration, The 7th IGRSM International Conference and Exhibition on Remote Sensing & GIS (IGRSM 2014), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2013                           Presenter 

Ensemble of statistical EBF into a knowledge based AHP for slopes failures mapping. The 34th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), Bali, Indonesia.(2013)

2012                              Presenter

Prediction of slope failures using bivariate statistical based index of entropy model. In:  Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2012 IEEE Colloquium On, 2012. IEEE, 362-367.

2012                        Silver Medal

Research and innovation exhibition of invention Malaysia, Organized by: Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), University Putra Malaysia. http://www.u-events.upm.my/prpi/ 

2012                        Organizer committee

Program GIS Day 2012, Malaysian Remote Sensing Society, MRSGISSC, University Putra Malaysia.

 SOFTWARE/HARDWARE SKILLS

 RESEARCH GRANTS

Aug.2018-Aug 2021             Approved funding: $ 30,585

“Development of an integrated coastal sensitivity risk index for oil spill and pollution management using Remote Sensing, GIS, & Machine Learning Models” Institute of Technology Petronas SDN. BHD.  And University of Technology Sydney And Ankara University

 Sep.2017-Sep.2018              Approved funding: $ 5000

Short-Term Internal Research Fund (STIRF), Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia.

Jan.2011-Jan.2013              Research Support

Vice Chancellor Research Grant RUGS, Malaysia.” Landslide hazard assessment using data mining approaches

  Languages  

 Hobbies and interests

  WEBSITES

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• E-Learning instructor | (https://www.udemy.com/user/omar-f-althuwaynee/)

• AlThuwaynee | (https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-f-althuwaynee-geomatics/)