About me
I am a senior lecturer and researcher in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Science (GIS) in the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
My research interest is in satellite image classification, segmentation, and change detection. I am particularly interested in texture-based and fuzzy image analysis techniques. Recently, I have started research on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for ultra-high resultion mapping, sensor integration, and multi-scale sampling. Interactive visualization and visual data mining for image analysis are other interest areas. The application areas I work in are environmental mapping and monitoring. At the moment, my focus is on vegetation classification and change detection on Australia's sub-Antarctic islands and Antarctica from very high resolution satellite imagery and UAV imagery. You can find more information about my projects and publications on my research pages.
During my M.Sc. (1995 - 2000) in Physical Geography, I specialised in Geographical Information Science (GIS), dynamical modelling and remote sensing. The Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands is internationally renowned for its GIS modelling expertise and education. For my M.Sc. thesis, I focused on modelling the surface thermal heat-balance, using hyper-spectral remote sensing imagery. During my practical period at the Joint Research Centre in Italy, I further developed my dynamical modelling skills by application to river flooding for two main river catchments in Europe, the Meuse and Oder.
In 2000, I started my Ph.D. at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherland, focussing on modelling and visualising uncertainty in remote sensing segmentation and classification. During my PhD, I developed a software tool for texture-based segmentation of satellite images for identification of land cover objects. Another component of the tool is the use of interactive visualisation to improve awareness and understanding of uncertainty in remote sensing image processing. The software tool (Parbat) is available on the Internet for public use at http://parbat.lucieer.net. I was awarded my PhD degree in October 2004. More information about this research and my thesis can be found here.
From June 2004 until present, I have been a lecturer, and senior lecturer since 2010, in GIS and remote sensing in the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania in Australia. I teach undergraduate units in GIS and remote sensing and I supervise Honours, Masters, and PhD students. See my teaching page for more information.
My personal interests are climbing, mountain bike riding, mountaineering and ski touring. Photography is one of my main hobbies and you can find a selection of photographs of my travels and activities on my photo page. Other interests are computers, Linux, programming, and web development and design.
Dr Arko Lucieer
School of Geography and Environmental Studies
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 76
Hobart,
Tasmania 7001
Australia
Phone: +61 3 62262140
Fax: +61 3 62267628
Email: Arko.Lucieer@utas.edu.au
Web: http://www.lucieer.net
Visiting address:
Corner of Dobson Road and Grosvenor Crescent
Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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