Department of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS)
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. Currently this department offers following 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 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.
We are currently offering 2-year postdoctoral positions in field of Remote Sensing and GIS for international applications. International applicants may contact Dr. Bakhtiar Feizizadeh via Feizizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir
Name: Dr. Khalil Valizadeh Kamran (Professor) - Head of Department
Email : valizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir
Tel :0413339-2295
Educational background
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
Name: Dr. Bakhtiar Feizizadeh (Associate Professor)
Email : feizizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir and 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)
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
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
Name: Dr. Sadra Karimzadeh (Assistant 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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Post-doc researchers
Name: Dr. Payam Najafi
Name: Dr. Zahra Abdollahi
Name: Dr. Soudabeh Namdari
International PhD students
Name: Salam Mahmud
Name: Mohammed Watman