About

Maps, data, and environmental work.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado, with a lot of time spent outdoors and an early interest in visual arts. I later studied environmental science and natural-resource management, and GIS turned out to be a natural meeting point between the analytical, environmental and visual sides of how I like to work.

I'm now a geospatial scientist, developer, and cartographer based in Skåne, Sweden. Over the past decade I've worked across government research, environmental consulting, independent consulting and climate technology, gradually moving deeper into remote sensing, automation, spatial data engineering and application development. I still like being close to the work: figuring out difficult spatial problems, building things, and making the results understandable.

Map showing southern Sweden in a wider northern European context, highlighting Aaron Roper's location in Skåne.

Technical toolkit

Python / GeoPandas / Rasterio / GDAL / QGIS / ArcGIS Pro

PostgreSQL / PostGIS / Spatial SQL / GeoJSON / COGs / STAC

Sentinel-2 / Landsat / LiDAR / Google Earth Engine / raster analysis

React / TypeScript / MapLibre / Leaflet / Django/GeoDjango / REST APIs

Professional experience

Green Urbansights

Lead geospatial development for urban forestry and climate-resilience applications while remaining hands-on with remote sensing, spatial analysis, data pipelines, APIs and web mapping.

Roper Geospatial

Independent client work spanning environmental data integration, web GIS and machine learning, including a water-quality application built around more than 17,000 observations and historical land-cover classification.

SWCA Environmental Consultants

Six years of environmental consulting across renewable energy, wildfire, watersheds, habitat and infrastructure, combining spatial analysis, remote sensing, automation, cartography, web GIS and technical leadership.

U.S. Geological Survey

Co-developed and maintained the United States Wind Turbine Database and supported environmental and energy research through imagery interpretation, spatial modeling, geodatabase work and cartography.

Education & recognition

MSc Natural Resource Management – Water & Climate

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Certificate of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems

University of Denver

BA Environmental Studies

University of Colorado Boulder

Exchange Studies

Uppsala University / Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development

Lawrence S. Semo Scientific Achievement Award

SWCA Environmental Consultants

Have a role, collaboration or spatial problem in mind?

I'm open to conversations about geospatial roles, project-based work and technical collaborations, especially around environmental data, remote sensing, spatial analysis and mapping.

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