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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

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
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. (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	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	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 \|
	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
	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 \|
	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)
OA	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)
	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 \|
OA	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

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

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

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