Giorgos Mountrakis  

Giorgos Mountrakis, PhD

Assistant Professor of GISc/Remote Sensing
Director, Intelligent Geocomputing Lab
Environmental Resources Engineering Department
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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• Short Biography:

• Dr. Giorgos Mountrakis is Assistant Professor in Environmental Resources Engineering at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maine in Spatial Information Engineering and Science (2004).

• He is the Founder and Director of the Intelligent Geocomputing Laboratory at SUNY-ESF. His areas of expertise include environmental monitoring using remote sensing methods (e.g. impervious surface/vegetation structure using satellite image analysis), environmental modeling using geographic methods (e.g. national forest consolidation dynamics, biodiversity responses to climate/land cover changes, urban growth prediction), and environmental decision systems (e.g. optimal location of animal-vehicle collision structures, population stresses on forests).

• Dr. Mountrakis has been successful at securing external competitive grants from NASA, NSF, USDA Forest Service and Syracuse Center of Excellence. He has been the lead PI for approximately $1.4M in research funds, through individual and collaborative grants ($1.7M including Co-PI status). He has published in numerous journals and books and has presented his work in various national and international conferences. He is the recipient of several awards in recognition of his academic and research achievements including an award from NASA’s prestigious New Investigator Program (2008) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences (2004).

• His teaching is innovative through student-engaging activities (e.g. incorporating inquiry-based learning) and it includes courses in Digital Image Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Remote Sensing, Surveying, GPS and Artificial Intelligence in Geography. Notable service activities include his guest editorship in the October 2008 Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing” for the Photogrammetric Eng. & Remote Sensing Journal, his participation on a NASA review panel and his involvement in a United Nations FAO Thematic Study on Trees Outside the Forest.