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
- Chatzopoulos Vouzoglanis, K.,Reinke, K.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S. (2024). Are fire intensity and burn severity associated? Advancing our understanding of FRP and NBR metrics from Himawari-8/9 and Sentinel-2 In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 127, 1 - 11
- Meadows, M.,Jones, S.,Reinke, K. (2024). Vertical accuracy assessment of freely available global DEMs (FABDEM, Copernicus DEM, NASADEM, AW3D30 and SRTM) in flood-prone environments In: International Journal of Digital Earth, 17, 1 - 26
- Huettermann, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Hislop, S. (2023). Using Landsat time series and bi-temporal GEDI to compare spectral and structural vegetation responses after fire In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 122, 1 - 10
- McGlade, J.,Wallace, L.,Hally, B.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2023). The Effect of Surrounding Vegetation on Basal Stem Measurements Acquired Using Low-Cost Depth Sensors in Urban and Native Forest Environments In: Sensors, 23, 1 - 21
- Valenzuela Quinteros, A.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2023). A New Methodology to Assess Spatial Response Models for Satellite Imagers Using the Optical Design Parameters of a Generic Sensor as Independent Variables In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, 1 - 10
- Mitchell, D.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S. (2023). Remote sensing shows south-east Queensland koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) prefer areas of higher tree canopy height within their home ranges In: Wildlife Research, , 1 - 15
- Huettermann, S.,Jones, S.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Hislop, S. (2023). Exploring the Influence of Forest Tenure and Protection Status on Post-Fire Recovery in Southeast Australia In: Forests, 14, 1 - 15
- Hally, B.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2023). A New Spatio-Temporal Selection Method for Estimating Upwelling Medium-Wave Radiation In: Remote Sensing, 15, 1 - 17
- Shabani, F.,Shafapourtehrany, M.,Ahmadi, M.,Kalantar, B.,Jones, S., et al, . (2023). Habitat in flames: How climate change will affect fire risk across koala forests In: Environmental Technology and Innovation, 32, 1 - 12
- Sharma, R.,Jones, S.,Robinson, D.,Gordon, A. (2023). Evaluating the impact of private land conservation with synthetic control design In: Conservation Biology, 37, 1 - 13
- Natural Hazards Research Australia - Scholarship Agreement Top Up - Correcting vertical errors in a global Digital Evaluation Model, to derive a "bare earth" terrain surface for improved flood modelling in data-scarce regions. Student: Michael Meadows. Funded by: Natural Hazards Research Australia Contract from (2023 to 2025)
- Real time fire analytics. Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2021 to 2025)
- 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 2028)
- 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 2017)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
11 PhD Current Supervisions27 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).