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
- Wickramasinghe, C.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2020). Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products In: International Journal of Digital Earth, 13, 457 - 473
- Nguyen, T.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Haywood, A.,Hislop, S. (2020). Monitoring aboveground forest biomass dynamics over three decades using Landsat time-series and single-date inventory data In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 84, 1 - 15
- Fallatah, A.,Jones, S.,Mitchell, D. (2020). Object-based random forest classification for informal settlements identification in the Middle East: Jeddah a case study In: International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41, 4421 - 4445
- Hislop, S.,Haywood, A.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Skidmore, A.,Nguyen, T. (2020). A satellite data driven approach to monitoring and reporting fire disturbance and recovery across boreal and temperate forests In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 87, 1 - 14
- Rathnayake, C.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M. (2020). Mapping land cover change over a 25-year period (1993-2018) in Sri Lanka using landsat time-series In: Land, 9, 1 - 19
- Sharma, R.,Eklund, J.,Barnes, M.,Geldmann, J.,Schleicher, J.,Pressey, R.,Gutierrez Gonzalez, M.,Jones, S.,Gordon, A. (2020). The impact of terrestrial protected areas on vegetation extent and condition: A systematic review protocol In: Environmental Evidence, 9, 1 - 7
- 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
- Shafapour Tehrany, M.,Jones, S.,Shabani, F.,Mart�nez-�lvarez, F.,Bui, D. (2019). A novel ensemble modeling approach for the spatial prediction of tropical forest fire susceptibility using LogitBoost machine learning classifier and multi-source geospatial data In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 137, 637 - 653
- Hillman, S.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Hally, B.,Jones, S.,San Martin Saldias, D. (2019). A method for validating the structural completeness of understory vegetation models captured with 3D remote sensing In: Remote Sensing, 11, 1 - 11
- Liu, J.,Wang, T.,Skidmore, A.,Jones, S.,Heurich, M.,Beudert, B.,Premier, J. (2019). Comparison of terrestrial LiDAR and digital hemispherical photography for estimating leaf angle distribution in European broadleaf beech forests In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 158, 76 - 89
- Data integration, scale and classification of remotely sensed imagery. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2004 from (2004 to 2008)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Current Supervisions19 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
Remote sensing, geographic information systems, spatial data uncertainty, land-cover mapping, monitoring and modelling, bushfires, tropical ecosystems, ground verification (in situ observations).