STAFF PROFILE
Professor Simon Jones
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Phone:
+61399252419
Email:
simon.jones@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
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
- Engel, C.,Jones, S.,Reinke, K. (2022). Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Values for Biogeographical Region and Individual Geostationary HHMMSS Threshold (BRIGHT) Hotspots Derived from the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) In: Remote Sensing, 14, 1 - 9
- Rathnayake, C.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Wallace, L. (2022). Human–elephant conflict and land cover change in Sri Lanka In: Applied Geography, 143, 1 - 17
- Huettermann, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Hislop, S. (2022). Intercomparison of Real and Simulated GEDI Observations across Sclerophyll Forests In: Remote Sensing, 14, 1 - 16
- Chatzopoulos Vouzoglanis, K.,Reinke, K.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Engel, C.,Jones, S. (2022). Comparing geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite sensor estimates of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) during the Black Summer Fires (2019-2020) in south-eastern Australia In: International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, 572 - 585
- Valenzuela Quinteros, A.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2022). A new metric for the assessment of spatial resolution in satellite imagers In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 114, 1 - 19
- Rathnayake, C.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Wallace, L. (2022). Assessing protected area networks in the conservation of elephants (Elephas Maximus) in Sri Lanka In: Environmental Challenges, 9, 1 - 19
- Taneja, R.,Hilton, J.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2021). Effect of fuel spatial resolution on predictive wildfire models In: International Journal of Wildland Fire, 30, 776 - 789
- Guffogg, J.,Blades, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Bellman, C.,Skidmore, A.,Jones, S. (2021). Quantifying marine plastic debris in a beach environment using spectral analysis In: Remote Sensing, 13, 1 - 23
- Mitchell, D.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S. (2021). Regional variation in forest canopy height and implications for koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) habitat mapping and forest management In: Forests, 12, 1 - 44
- Hislop, S.,Haywood, A.,Alaibakhsh, M.,Nguyen, T.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S.,Stone, C. (2021). A reference data framework for the application of satellite time series to monitor forest disturbance In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 105, 1 - 12
- Real time fire analytics. Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2021 to 2024)
- Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions in Mallee and Heathy shrublands (Candidate: Simeon Telfer). Funded by: CRC for Bushfires Scholarship from (2021 to 2024)
- Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting (Project code: BSF02). Funded by: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Contract from (2021 to 2021)
- 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)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
14 PhD Current Supervisions21 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).