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Update: December 4th, 2011

Giorgos Mountrakis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor on GIS and Remote Sensing

Director of Intelligent Geocomputing Lab
Dept. of Environmental Resources Engineering
State University of NY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Welcome to my virtual space-time to explore!

Postdoctoral Research Position available starting in Fall 2011 [Update: Position filled]

A postdoctoral position is also currently available to study land cover dynamics. More information here.

Featured Educational Activity

How can we integrate hands-on activities in remote sensing courses while teaching students fundamentals on relevant technology? Find out below.

Student-built sensor reaches ~90,000 feet and takes images of space.

Featured Research Paper

How can we recover from missing spectral information (e.g. due to sensor malfunction) using contextual information from adjacent pixels? Find out below.

G. Mountrakis, L. Luo (2011). Enhancing and replacing spectral information with intermediate structural inputs: A case study on impervious surface detection. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(5):1162-1170. [Download 1.8MB pdf]

Patent awarded by the US Patent and Trademark Office

A full patent on multi-scale radial basis function neural networks was issued on August 18, 2009. (Patent #7,577,626).

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