Department of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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About the Department:
Department of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) was established in 1999. This department is known as one the most successful departments in University of Tabriz. The academic staffs in department could found many national and international projects. Currently there are several an important on going national projects in this department.
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS is one the most important departments which has international collaboration with several departments such as department of Geoinformatics (Z-GIS) University of Salzburg, Austria, Department of GIS, San Diego State University (SDSU), California, United State, Department of Cartography and GIS, University of Tehran, Iran, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. This is also one of the first departments offered postdoctoral position for international students.This department encourages international bachelor, master, PhD and postdoctoral applications.
The department offers B.A. and M.A. courses and plans have been made for further extension of the department toward Ph.D. This is one the first departments that offers very professional master program in Remote Sensing and GIS specialized in several fields.
 
Available Programs:
 
Bachelor program in remote sensing and GIS 
Master program in remote sensing and GIS applied to water management and soil resources 
Master program in remote Sensing and GIS applied to natural Hazards
Master program in remote Sensing and GIS applied to Urban and Rural Management
PhD program in Remote Sensing
PhD program in Geographical Information System
Postdoctoral position in remote sensing and GIS 
 
The Remote Sensing and GIS Lab:
 
The GIS lab of this department is one the well-established lab in University of Tabriz. This department upgraded software packages including:  ArcGIS, Arc Cad, PCI Geomatica, Photo Mode, ER-Mapper,Envi, Erdas on PC-based platform, and Calips consisting of 40 user workstations are active. Peripherals include small and large format digitizer, scanners, plotters and printers. This lab has some of the advanced GPS receivers used for gathering field data. The satellite dish also has been fixed on the roof of the Faculty for updated monitoring of climatic conditions of the area. The data for remote sensing based analyses is received onlie through satellites like NOAA, SPOT, MODIS, LANDSAT, HYPERION, etc. All classroom facilities and hardware and software capabilities are utilized for future expansion purposes.

The Head of the Department:

Name: Dr. Bakhtiar Feizizadeh (Professor)

Email : feizizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir

          bakhtiar.feizizadeh@gmail.com

Tel :0413339-2295

PhD : Geoinformatics (Remote Sensing and GIS), University of Salzburg, Z-GIS, Salzburg, Austria

Scholar researcher,  Department of Geography,San Diego State University (SDSU), California, USA

MSC: Remote Sensing and GIS,  University of Tabriz

B.A: Physical Geography, University of Tabriz

Research interests: Land use/Land Cover Classification, Monitoring and Change Detection
Image Processing- Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA)
Thermal Remote Sensing
GIS Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS for Agricultural Crop Monitoring, Land Suitability Analysis and Crop Stress Drought
Remote Sensing and GIS Application for Geohazard Monitoring and Risk Assessment
Landslide Hazard Mapping Using GIS MCDA and OBIA
Sensitive and Uncertainty Analysis for GIS-MCDA
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

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Name: Dr. Khalil Valizadeh Kamran (Professor) 

Email : valizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir

Tel :0413339-2295

PhD: Satellite based climatology, University of Tabriz

M.Sc: Remote Sensing and GIS, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran

B.A: Physical Geography, University of Tabriz

Research interests: Land use/Land cover Classification, Monitoring and Change Detection
Image processing
Thermal Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing and GIS Applied to Climatology
Remote Sensing and GIS Application for Geohazard Monitoring and Risk Assessment
SAR Image Processing
GIS Based Climatology

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Name: Dr. Maryam Bayati Khatibi (Professor)

Email :m-bayati@tabrizu.ac.ir

Tel :0413339-6013

Educational background

PhD:Geomorphology, University of Tabriz

M.A:Hydroclimatology, University of Tabriz

B.A: Geography, University of Tabriz

Research interests: Geohazards, Risk Assessment and Mass Movements

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Name:Dr. Abolfazl Ganbari (Professor)

Email : a_ghanbari@tabrizu.ac.ir

Tel :0413339-2265

Educational background

PhD: Urban Planning, University of Tabriz

M.A: University of Tabriz

B.A: Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tabriz

Research interests: Urban Planning

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Name: Dr. Sadra Karimzadeh (Associate Professor)

Email : sa.karimzadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir and sadra.karimzadeh@gmail.com

Tel :0413339-2296

Invited research scientist at Gebze Technical University, Turkey (2022-2023)

Researcher at RIKEN (Geoinformatics Unit), Japan (2019)

JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2016-2018)

Ph.D: Remote Sensing Engineering, Kanazawa University, Japan (2012-2015)

Research interests: SAR Remote Sesning, InSAR, Earthquake damage detection, Site characterization, Soft computing
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Name: Dr. Mehrdad Jeihouni (Assistant Professor)

Email : jeihouni@tabrizu.ac.ir 

Tel :0413339-2295

PhD : Remote Sensing & GIS, University of Tehran, Iran.

Potsdoctoral Researcher:  Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Iran.

MSc: Remote Sensing and GIS,  University of Tehran, Iran.

BSc: Soil Engineering, University of Tabriz.

Research interests:

  • Remote Sensing & GIS

  • Digital Soil Mapping

  • Spatial Data Mining

  • Geo AI

  • Soft Computing

Name: Dr. Behnam Khorrami (Assistant Professor)

Room: 516

Tel :0413339-2287

Email : bekhorram@tabrizu.ac.ir

Adjunct Research Associate: Environmnetal Informatics & Modelling Lab, Izmir Institute of technology, Izmir, Turkiye

PhD : Geoinformatics (Remote Sensing and GIS), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkiye

MSc: Remote Sensing and GIS,  University of Tabriz, Iran.

BSc: Natural Resources Engineering, Urmia University, Iran.

Research interests:

  • Remote Sensing of Environmnet
  • Geospatial Analysis & Modelling
  • Hydrological Monitoring
  • Natural Hazards

Honors and Awards:

  • Fully founded scholarship for PhD study sponsored by Turkiye Burslari of Turkiye (2016).
  •  YTB Academic Performance Award, Turkiye (2020).
  • The Best PhD Thesis of the Year (2022) Award by Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Turkiye.
  • Distinguishd Graduation Award, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkiye (2022).
  • Scientific Publications Award, Dokuz Eylul Universi, Turkiye (2022).
  • TUM Global Postdoctoral Fellowship, Technical University of Munich, Germany (2024).
  • Distinguishd Graduation Award, University of Tabriz, Iran (2016).
  • Distinguishd Graduation Award, Urmia University, Iran (2012).

 

Last Update At : 22 April 2025