Giorgos Mountrakis

Research Interests

• environmental monitoring using remote sensing methods (e.g. impervious surface/vegetation structure using satellite image analysis, uncertainty analysis, context-based image classifiers),
• environmental modeling using geographic methods (e.g. climate pattern analysis, national forest consolidation dynamics, biodiversity responses to climate/land cover changes, urban growth prediction), and
• environmental decision systems (e.g. optimal placement of wildlife mitigation structures).

Expertise: geographic information systems, remote sensing, spatiotemporal analysis, land cover land use change, climate change, biogeography, coupled human and natural systems

His areas of expertise include:

• i) environmental monitoring using remote sensing methods (algorithmic development for classification/regression, for three-dimensional LiDAR processing, for accuracy assessment and for image fusion),
• ii) interdisciplinary studies linking land cover dynamics, socioeconomic patterns and environmental covariates (climate pattern analysis, forest consolidation dynamics, biodiversity responses to climate/land cover changes, tornado prediction, urban growth modeling).