Christian Pilaar - Team Leader

Christian is a senior software engineer at ATLAS, specialised in database design and GIS applications. He leads the development team for ATLAS GeoMaster which is the most widely used forest management system throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Christian has been responsible for the development of many other database applications over many years. These include the Scion PSP system which is a national database used by forestry companies throughout New Zealand to monitor forest growth and response to silvicultural activities, he designed the Woodwide system which synthesises international trade data from many sources, and he has also delved into the world of satellite imagery where he compared landuse classifiactions derived from satellite images with existing maps of natural and plantation forest cover.

Christian has a BSc (Mathematics) and BA (Computer Science) both gained at Victoria University of Wellington.