Simon Jones

Professor Simon Jones

Professor

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About

Areas of expertise:

- Remote sensing
- Ground verification (in situ observations)
- Spatial analysis
- Spatial data uncertainty
- Land-cover mapping
- Monitoring and modelling
- Vegetation

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

Supervisor projects

  • Predicting Daily Fire Intensity in Australian Environments
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • A practical and scalable approach to evaluate biodiversity conservation impacts for effective conservation planning in Victoria, from a socio-economic perspective.
  • 10 Feb 2023
  • Geospatial Biomass Inference Modelling for tropical carbon sequestration measurement from space-borne data fusion to support REDD+ Implementations in Papua New Guinea
  • 4 Jan 2023
  • Active fire detection from satellite earth observation
  • 10 May 2022
  • Identifying and validating Himawari-8 active fire observations by integrating earth observation data sources
  • 21 Oct 2021
  • Satellite data assimilation for enhanced fore detection
  • 27 Aug 2021
  • Correcting vertical errors in a global Digital Elevation Model, to derive a “bare earth” terrain surface for flood modelling in data-scarce regions
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Using remote sensing to help unearth ancient cultural landscapes
  • 18 Dec 2020
  • Future forests
  • 6 Aug 2020
  • Characterising Forest Ladder Fuels using 3D Point Clouds
  • 5 Aug 2020
  • Active fire detection from satellite earth observation
  • 20 May 2020
  • Monitoring Fire-driven Forest Dynamics Over Large Areas Using Passive and Active Remote Sensing
  • 8 Aug 2019
  • The Application of Low-cost Proximal Remote Sensing Technologies for the Biophysical Measurement of Forest Structure
  • 26 Jul 2019
  • Measuring and Predicting the Impact of Private Protected Areas
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Remote Sensing of Coastal Marine Plastic Debris
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • Using Innovative Remote Sensing Techniques to Improve the Quality and Accuracy of Koala Habitat Mapping in Eastern Australia
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • Up-Scaling Estimates of Forest Fuel Structure Using Terrestrial Remote Sensing
  • 1 Mar 2018
  • Using 3D Remote Sensing to Observe the Structure of Forest Fuel
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Quantifying Large Area Land Use and Land Cover Change in Sri Lanka and its Impact on Elephant Habitat Using Time Series Remote Sensing Data
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Extrapolating Forest Biomass Dynamics Over Large Areas Using Time-Series Remote Sensing
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • Developing a Wildfire Surveillance Algorithm for Geostationary Satellites
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Using Earth Observation Satellites to Explore Forest Dynamics Across Large Areas
  • 8 Feb 2016
  • Mapping Informal Settlements in a Middle Eastern Environment Using Remote Sensing Techniques
  • 29 Oct 2015
  • Retrieving the 3D Distribution of Leaves in Forests using LiDAR
  • 1 Sep 2015
  • Methods for Background Temperature Estimation in the Context of Active Fire Detection
  • 2 Mar 2015

Teaching interests

Remote sensing, geographic information systems, spatial data uncertainty, land-cover mapping, monitoring and modelling, bushfires, tropical ecosystems, ground verification (in situ observations).

Responsibilities:
- Professor of Remote Sensing
- Director of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Research Centre

Teaching activities:
- Undergraduate
- Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry 1 (GEOM2084)
- Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry 2 (GEOM2086)
- Postgraduate
- Remote Sensing (GEOM1009/2128)
- Advanced Imaging Technology (GEOM2112/2113)

Research interests

Geomatic Engineering, Forestry Sciences, Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Environmental Science and Management, Other Environmental Sciences, Classical Physics

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
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.