Dr. Abuelgasim received both his masters and PhD degrees from Boston University in 1996. He later joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA in 1998 as a visiting scientist where he worked in a research program exploiting multi-angle remote sensing observations. In 2000 he relocated to Canada where he has been with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the Canadian Space Agency as a research scientist. Dr Abuelgasim also served as the international geospatial data consultant during 2012 for the Nile Basin Initiative. Dr Abuelgasim research and teaching interests are focused on the analysis of geospatial data for information products generation, physical and human geography and on the effects of human induced environmental and ecological changes. He is currently an associate professor of geography at UAEU.