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Sustainable Development Goals

Research interests

• Geomatics applied to water
• Studies of water bodies using radar
• Geostatistics applied to study natural resources
• Study of basins using geomatics
• Land change cover using remote sensing

Profile

Professor Felipe Omar Tapia Silva works in the field of applied Geomatics. His general area of interest is the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Analysis, and Remote Sensing (RS) in modeling aspects of water and other natural resources.

He obtained his doctoral degree in 2002 in Germany at the Institute for Urban and Rural Ecological Projects of the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has completed postdoctoral stays at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and at the German Center for Geosciences in Potsdam Germany. From 2003 to 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at CentroGeo. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus in the department of Hydrobiology and coordinates the Laboratory of Geomatics applied to Natural Resources (which develops research with GIS, PR, and Spatial Analysis in open source software).

He has published articles related to the application of disciplines such as GIS, PR, and Spatial Analysis to solve water problems in urban and rural areas. His last main activity is the research stay at CentroGeo from 2019 to 2020 participating in a FORDECYT project to obtain persistence indicators of water bodies using radar images.

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Research interests

• Geomatics applied to water
• Studies of water bodies using radar
• Geostatistics applied to study natural resources
• Study of basins using geomatics
• Land change cover using remote sensing

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
	Chaparro-Guerra, M.D.R., Corcuera, P., Tapia-Silva, F.O. and 1 more (...) (2026).Influence of landscape heterogeneity on the functional diversity of birds along an anthropization gradient in the upper Lerma River basin, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad,97
OA	González-Rivas, D.A., Ortega-Rubio, A., Tapia-Silva, F.-O. (2025).Remote Sensing-Based Assessment of the Long-Term Expansion of Shrimp Ponds Along the Coastal and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California. Diversity,17(2)	14
OA	Tapia-Silva, F.-O., García-Hernández, J. (2024).Assessing the relationship between river water pollution and the LULC composition of a basin in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment,196(11)	3\|6
OA	Tapia-Silva, F.-O. (2024).Geostatistics to integrate gauge measurements with downscaled satellite estimates suitable for the local scale. Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua,15(1) 54-110	6
OA	González-Rivas, D.A., Tapia-Silva, F.O. (2023).Estimating the shrimp farm’s production and their future growth prediction by remote sensing: Case study Gulf of California. Frontiers in Marine Science,10	2\|14
	Alvarado-Arriaga, V.Y., Tapia-Silva, F.O., Sosa-Rodríguez, F.S. (2022).Geomatics Assessment of Water Resources in a Transboundary Basin. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,15-27	6\|11
	Tapia-Silva, F.O., Ramírez-González, A.O., López-Gonzaga, J.L. (2022).Methodology and Relevant Results About an Area-Based Conservation Indicator of Superficial Water Bodies for the Grijalva Basin. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,81-93
	Uraga-Tovar, D.I., Tapia-Silva, F.O., López-Caloca, A.A. and 1 more (...) (2021).Methodology for determining runoff coefficients using open access images and classification open source algorithms. Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua,12(5)
	López-Caloca, A.A., Valdiviezo-Navarro, J.C., Tapia-Silva, F.O. (2021).Tracking short-term seasonally flooded areas to understand the dynamics of the Coatzacoalcos River in Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing,15(4)
	López-Caloca, A.A., Tapia-Silva, F.O., López, F. and 3 more (...) (2020).Analyzing short term spatial and temporal dynamics of water presence at a basin-scale in Mexico using SAR data. GIScience and Remote Sensing,57(7) 985-1004
	Muñoz-Nájera, M.A., Tapia-Silva, F.O., Barrera-Escorcia, G. and 1 more (...) (2020).Statistical and geostatistical spatial and temporal variability of physico-chemical parameters, nutrients, and contaminants in the Tenango Dam, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of Geochemical Exploration,209	6
OA	González-Rivas, D.A., Tapia-Silva, F.O., Bustillos-Guzmán, J.J. and 4 more (...) (2020).Estimating Nitrogen Runoff From Agriculture to Coastal Zones by a Rapid GIS and Remote Sensing-Based Method for a Case Study From the Irrigation District Río Mayo, Gulf of California, México. Frontiers in Marine Science,7	14

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	26P	Precálculo	Licenciatura
2	26P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Licenciatura
3	26P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
4	26P	Seminario de Investigación III	Posgrado
5	26P	Investigación Doctoral IV	Posgrado
6	26P	Investigación Doctoral VI	Posgrado
7	26P	Proyecto de Investigación IV	Posgrado
8	26P	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis II	Posgrado
9	26I	Investigación Doctoral III	Posgrado
10	26I	Investigación Doctoral V	Posgrado
11	26I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
12	26I	Proyecto de Investigación III	Licenciatura
13	26I	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
14	26I	Sistemas de Información Geográfica I	Posgrado
15	26I	Temas Selectos II	Posgrado
16	26I	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis I	Posgrado
17	26I	Calculo Diferencial	Licenciatura
18	26I	Geomática Aplicada	Licenciatura
19	25O	Investigación Doctoral II	Posgrado
20	25O	Investigación Doctoral IV	Posgrado
21	25O	Precálculo	Licenciatura
22	25O	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
23	25O	Sistemas de Información Geográfica I	Posgrado
24	25O	Temas Selectos I	Posgrado
25	25P	Biomatemáticas II	Licenciatura
26	25P	Hidrobiomática	Licenciatura
27	25P	Investigación Doctoral I	Posgrado
28	25P	Investigación Doctoral III	Posgrado
29	25P	Proyecto de Investigación I	Posgrado
30	25P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
31	25P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
32	25P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
33	25P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
34	25P	Proyecto de Investigación III	Posgrado
35	25P	Seminario de Investigación III	Posgrado
36	25P	Seminario de Investigación III	Posgrado
37	25P	Seminario de Investigación III	Posgrado
38	25P	Seminario de Investigación III	Posgrado
39	25P	Seminario de Tesis III	Posgrado
40	25P	Seminario Internacional I	Posgrado
41	25P	Seminario Internacional O Intercultural II	Posgrado
42	25I	Biomatemáticas I	Licenciatura
43	25I	Investigación Doctoral II	Posgrado
44	25I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
45	25I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
46	25I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
47	25I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
48	25I	Proyecto de Investigación II	Posgrado
49	25I	Proyecto Terminal III Agua Superficial	Licenciatura
50	25I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
51	25I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
52	25I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
53	25I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
54	25I	Seminario de Tesis II	Posgrado
55	25I	Seminario II	Posgrado
56	24O	Biomatemáticas II	Licenciatura
57	24O	Hidrobiomática	Licenciatura
58	24O	Investigación Doctoral I	Posgrado
59	24O	Proyecto de Investigación I	Posgrado
60	24O	Proyecto de Investigación I	Posgrado

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