STAFF PROFILE
Professor Simon Jones
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Geospatial Science
Phone:
+61 3 9925 2419
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
- Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S.,Haywood, A. (2018). Assessing large area forest cover products derived from the same imaging source across Victoria, Australia In: Ecological Management and Restoration, 19, 66 - 75
- Hewson, R.,Green, D.,Vicary, M.,Jones, S. (2018). Applying multi-wavelength, multi-polarimetric and interferometric airborne radar data for geological mapping in densely forested north-western Tasmania In: Exploration Geophysics, 49, 89 - 97
- Wickramasinghe, C.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2018). Implementation of a new algorithm resulting in improvements in accuracy and resolution of SEVIRI hotspot products In: Remote Sensing Letters, 9, 877 - 885
- Hally, B.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S.,Skidmore, A. (2018). In Press - Advances in active fire detection using a multi-temporal method for next-generation geostationary satellite data In: International Journal of Digital Earth, , 1 - 16
- Hally, B.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S.,Engel, C.,Skidmore, A. (2018). Estimating Fire Background Temperature at a Geostationary Scale-An Evaluation of Contextual Methods for AHI-8 In: Remote Sensing, 10, 1368 - 30
- Hally, B.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2017). A broad-area method for the Diurnal characterisation of upwelling medium wave infrared radiation In: Remote Sensing, 9, 1 - 16
- Shafapour Tehrany, M.,Jones, S. (2017). Evaluating the variations in the flood susceptibility maps accuracies due to the alterations in the type and extend of the flood inventory In: Proceedings of the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4-5 October 2017
- Woodgate, W.,Armston, J.,Disney, M.,Su�rez Barranco, L.,Jones, S.,Hill, M.,Wilkes, P.,Soto-Berelov, M. (2017). Validating canopy clumping retrieval methods using hemispherical photography in a simulated Eucalypt forest In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 247, 181 - 193
- RASAIAH, B.,Bellman, C.,Hewson, R.,Jones, S.,Malthus, T. (2016). Enhanced data discoverability for in situ hyperspectral datasets In: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annals: Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and Spatial Information Science, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-19 July 2016
- Hally, B.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2016). Assessment of the utility of the advanced Himawari imager to detect active fire over Australia In: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-19 July 2016
- 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
13 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).