Academic Staff Profile

Mr. Charles Kapachika

MSc in Geographic Information Systems

Mr. Charles Kapachika
School of Built Environment Physical Planning and Land Surveying Department
Office: Block 4, Room 37

Research Interests

Drones, Environmental modeling, Remote sensing, Transportation modelling, Spatial statistics and modelling

Publication Areas

Agriculture, Geography, Water Resources, Robotics, Chemistry, Engineering, Urban Studies

Biography & Background

Mr Charles Chisha Kapachika is a highly motivated and hardworking individual, who studied a BSc in Land Surveying at Malawi Polytechnic and later obtained his MSc In Geographic Information Systems at Leeds University. Further to that, he is a licensed drone pilot. He is currently working with Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences as a Senior Lecturer in Geomatics. He is responsible for delivering modules related to land administration, land surveying, remote sensing, spatial statistics and modelling, spatial analysis and Spatial Information Systems.

Apart from his duties as a lecturer, he has also been involved in a number of projects with various roles. He has been a GIS expert, Land Surveyor, Team Leader in Blantyre City Council QVR project, Lilongwe Water Board Asset geodatabase creation, interactive map creation for a W.A.S.H. project in Chikwawa, proximity analysis of Njuli quarry mine to surrounding households. His roles in the outlined projects included geodatabase development for all property within the city, determination of optimal routes for enumerators, monitoring and evaluation of the projects, map production, surveying property using GPS and Total Station equipment, model building, spatial analysis.

Author Publications

21 Works Listed