User:Ybh0616

Byeong-Hyeok Yu


GIS/RS analyst (GISP), Korea National Park Service

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Byeong-Hyeok Yu is a GIS/RS analyst (GISP) working at Korea National Park Service (KNPS). KNPS is a public organization that manages almost all domestic national parks. He is using an Open Source GIS (QGIS, R, and others) for scientific national park management in Korea. He first launched a QGIS education program for employee training and making a variety of natural resource maps. He is an also Ph.D. student of the University of Seoul, and studying an open source-based Drone application. You can find more his blog GGRS and Facebook


 * OSGeo Experience
 * Open Source GIS instructor of National Institute of Environmental Human Resources Development (2013 ~ Present)
 * Open Source GIS consultant of Seoul National University (2014) and Kyungpook National University (2015)
 * Speaker of FOSS4G Korea annual conference in Korea (2013 ~ Present)
 * Keynote Speaker of FOSS4G Hokkaido annual conference in Japan (2015)
 * Receiving the president prize for the Government 3.0 contribution using Open Source GIS (2015)
 * Speaker of OECD Open and Innovative Government Network Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam (2015)
 * Session chairperson and speaker of FOSS4G 2015 in Seoul, Korea (2015)


 * Contact:
 * Email: bhyu@knps.or.kr
 * Phone (work): +82-2-721-9655


 * Spoken Language(s): Korean, English


 * Profile last updated: 30th, August 2015