Professor Simon Jones
Details
College: School of Science
Department: School of Science
Campus: City Campus Australia
simon.jones@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-3914-3717
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Media enquiries
About
Areas of expertise:
- Remote sensing
- Earth Observation
- Ground verification (in situ observations)
- Forest fires
- Wildland fire
- 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
Research fields
- 401304 Photogrammetry and remote sensing
- 300706 Forestry fire management
- 300703 Forest ecosystems
- 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience
UN sustainable development goals
- 15 Life on Land
- 14 Life Below Water
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Supervisor projects
- Land use Land cover change detection using Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
- 18 Sep 2026
- Study on phenology of Pine forests in the northwestern Himalayan region using PhenoMet and remote sensing data
- 10 Jun 2026
- Forests in the crossfire: understanding the impact of armed conflicts on forest cover dynamics and deforestation in the war-torn Tigray Regional State, North Ethiopia
- 9 Feb 2026
- Fire detection and attribution using satellite earth observation
- 13 Jan 2026
- Detection & Mapping of Malleefowl nesting mounds utilising Passive and Active Remote Sensing Methods
- 9 Jan 2026
- Multi-sensor data fusion for forest change monitoring and projection under climate change contexts
- 6 Jan 2026
- Reliability-Qualified Nighttime Lights for Disaster Impact, Recovery, and Resilience Analysis
- 28 Mar 2025
- Exploring avian vocalization and environmental influence on functional biodiversity
- 5 Feb 2025
- Predicting Daily Fire Intensity in Australian Environments
- 20 Oct 2023
- Spillover effects in impact evaluation of conservation interventions
- 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
- Unearthing Cultural Volcanic Landscapes Using Remote Sensing
- 18 Dec 2020
- Exploring the Utility of High Frequency Satellite Information on Wildfire Characterization and Impact Estimation
- 6 Aug 2020
- Characterising Forest Ladder Fuels using 3D Point Clouds
- 5 Aug 2020
- Innovations in Spatial Response Assessment for Satellite Imagers
- 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 (GEOM1009/2173)
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
- Wildland fire
