STAFF PROFILE
Professor Simon Jones
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Geospatial Science
Phone:
99252419
Email:
simon.jones@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Areas of expertise
- Remote sensing
- Ground verification (in situ observations)
- Spatial analysis
- Spatial data uncertainty
- Land-cover mapping
- Monitoring and modelling
- Vegetation
Responsibilities
- Professor of Remote Sensing
- Director of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Research Centre
Teaching activities
- Undergraduate
- Postgraduate
Research activities
- Biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial environments
- In situ observations (including spectral-radiometry)
- Scaling ground observations to the image and landscape level
- Spatial data uncertainty
- Bachelor of Arts (Joint Honours), University of Manchester, UK
- Master of Science, (UCL) University of London, UK
- PhD, University of Leicester, UK
Awards
- Winner Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards 2011: Excellence in Education and Professional Development
- Winner 7th Annual Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards 2011: Excellence in Education and Professional Development
Professional societies / affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) (Member since 1996)
- Director, Spatial Sciences Institute, Australia (2006-8)
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Co-Chair IGARSS, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Melbourne 2013
- Fallatah, A.,Jones, S.,Mitchell, D.,Kohli, D. (2019). Mapping informal settlement indicators using object-oriented analysis in the Middle East In: International Journal of Digital Earth, 12, 802 - 824
- Wallace, L.,San Martin Saldias, D.,Reinke, K.,HILLMAN, S.,Hally, B.,Jones, S. (2019). Using orthoimages generated from oblique terrestrial photography to estimate and monitor vegetation cover In: Ecological Indicators, 101, 91 - 101
- Wickramasinghe, C.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2019). In Press - Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products In: International Journal of Digital Earth, , 1 - 17
- Hislop, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Skidmore, A.,Haywood, A.,Nguyen, T. (2019). A fusion approach to forest disturbance mapping using time-series ensemble techniques In: Remote Sensing of Environment, 221, 188 - 197
- Hislop, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Skidmore, A.,Haywood, A.,Nguyen, T. (2019). High fire disturbance in forests leads to longer recovery, but varies by forest type In: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, , 1 - 13
- Wallace, L.,Bellman, C.,Hally, B.,Hernandez, J.,Jones, S.,Hillman, S. (2019). Assessing the Ability of Image Based Point Clouds Captured from a UAV to Measure the Terrain in the Presence of Canopy Cover In: Forests, 10, 1 - 14
- Shafapour Tehrany, M.,Jones, S.,Shabani, F. (2019). Identifying the essential flood conditioning factors for flood prone area mapping using machine learning techniques In: Catena, 175, 174 - 192
- Liu, J.,Skidmore, A.,Wang, T.,Zhu, X.,Premier, J.,Heurich, M.,Beudert, B.,Jones, S. (2019). Variation of leaf angle distribution quantified by terrestrial LiDAR in natural European beech forest In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 148, 208 - 220
- Soto-Berelov, M.,Haywood, A.,Jones, S.,Hislop, S.,Nguyen, T. (2018). Creating robust reference (training) datasets for large area time series disturbance attribution In: Remote Sensing Time Series Image Processing, CRC Press, Boca Raton, United States
- Hislop, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Skidmore, A.,Haywood, A.,Nguyen, T. (2018). A new semi-automatic seamless cloud-free landsat mosaicking approach tracks forest change over large extents In: Proceedings of the 38th International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium�(IGARSS 2018), Valencia, Spain, 22-27 July 2018
- Assessing the effects of water and nutrient stress on wine quality using hyperspectral remote sensing. Funded by: Australian Grape and Wine Authority Grants 2015 from (2015 to 2018)
- LiDAR forest characterisation, CSIRO Top-up Scholarship, Phil Wilkes. Funded by: CSIRO Post Graduate Top-Up Scholarship from (2013 to 2015)
- Water and nutrient stress detection in broad acre crops using remote sensing. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project 2007 Round 2 from (2008 to 2013)
- Landscape logic: Project 1 - spatial anaylsis and database. Funded by: Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme Grant Pre-2014 from (2007 to 2010)
- Condition Mapping: Integrating Site Assessments & Remote Sensing. (CSIRO and NSW Environment Trust, NSW Environment Trust Projects). Funded by: CSIRO Contract from (2005 to 2007)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
17 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions
Remote sensing, geographic information systems, spatial data uncertainty, land-cover mapping, monitoring and modelling, bushfires, tropical ecosystems, ground verification (in situ observations).