Advisory Board and Editors Spatial & Geographic Information Science
Ioannis Gitas
Ioannis Gitas is a Professor at the Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and an elected fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. His research has focused on remote sensing and GIS applications in environmental monitoring, with emphasis on forest fire management and land cover/land use mapping and change detection. He has been involved in various national and international projects and has long experience working as a consultant in GIS/RS issues for national and international organisations, as well as for the industry. Also, he has served as a project proposal reviewer for a number of national and international research organisations. Dr. Gitas received his PhD and M.Phil. degrees in GIS and Remote Sensing from the Department of Geography, Cambridge University, U.K., and a B.Sc. degree in Forestry and Natural Environment from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is an Associate Editor of Remote Sensing and has edited special issues for a number of high impact factor journals. In addition, he has substantial experience in organising international workshops and conferences. Ioannis Gitas is currently the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Forest Fires of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL, FFSIG), the FAO Forest Resources Assessment - Remote Sensing Survey contact point for Greece, and is a member of the GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team.
Robert J Hijmans
Robert Hijmans is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, he held positions at the International Potato Center (Peru), the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines) and at the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. His research focuses on spatial data analysis in biodiversity, agriculture, and health, and he has developed widely used software and databases to support such work. He has a PhD in Production Ecology from Wageningen University (Netherlands).
Cho-ying Huang
Cho-ying Huang is a professor in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University. His research interests include global ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry and remote sensing of the environment.
Bo Huang
Dr. Bo Huang is a Professor with the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Associate Director of Institute of Space and Earth Information Science and the Director of MSc Program in GeoInformation Science. Prior to this, he held faculty positions at University of Calgary (Geomatics Engineering), Canada and National University of Singapore (Civil Engineering). His research interests are broad, covering most aspects of Geographical Information Science (GIScience), specifically: satellite image fusion for environmental monitoring, spatial/spatio-temporal statistics for land cover/land use change modeling, spatial optimization for sustainable urban and land use planning, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and web/wireless GIS for location-based services. Dr. Huang has published extensively in the field of GIScience, including over 130 refereed international journal articles, and serves as Executive Editor of Annals of GIS (Taylor & Francis) and Asia-Pacific Regional Editor of International Journal of Geographical Information Science (Taylor & Francis). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive GIS, a three volume landmark GIS book to be published by Elsevier (Oxford). Currently he is exploring along the line of spatiotemporal data analytics, convinced that this new paradigm will revolutionize the way how geospatial data are integrated, analyzed and utilized in the future.
Rodolfo Jaffé
I`m interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, genomics and spatial statistics, to understand how the alteration of natural habitats influences biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services.
Mykola Karabiniuk
I work as an Associate professor of the Department of Physical Geography and Efficient Environmental Management of Uzhhorod National University. The scientific degree PhD (Geography) with a specialty in physical geography, geophysics and geochemistry of landscapes was awarded for the defense of a dissertation at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, which is devoted to the features of landscape organization and the efficiency of using the highlands of the Chornogora massif of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
I specialize in landscape diversity and evolutionary development of mountain systems, mapping and geoinformation analysis of the structure and properties of geocomplexes to determine the geoecological situation, as well as the problems of anthroposis of landscapes and efficient use of nature. For scientific achievements in the field of geoecology and the applied significance of the results of the study of the highlands of the Ukrainian Carpathians to solve environmental problems of the Danube region in 2021 I was awarded the Danubius Young Scientist Award. In 2025, based on the decision of the Certification Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Geography and Rational Nature Management was awarded. I am also a full member of the Ukrainian Geographical Society.
Nikos Koutsias
Nikos Koutsias is an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, Greece, where he gives courses about remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis. He obtained his diploma degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Aegean, his M.Sc. degree in Environmental and Renewable Resources, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He held a post doctorate position at Geographic Information Systems division (GIS) in the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.
He has been working in the field of remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis with special emphasis on wildland fires, forestry, ecology and other natural hazards for the last 25 years. He has participated in national and European projects and is the recent recipient of a Marie Curie Individual Scholarship.
Anne Kuhn
Anne Kuhn holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Rhode Island, and has expertise in the field of spatial statistics and developing approaches for evaluating the relative risks from chemical and non-chemical stressors on spatially structured populations of wildlife species across. Anne develops and evaluates watershed indicators to reflect and predict aquatic condition in lakes, streams and estuaries. Her current research involves evaluating key intrinsic factors controlling watershed physical processes and connectivity, and quantifying watershed-level stressors (e.g., land use, stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon, nutrient loads, climate change, etc.) that influence the condition and integrity of water bodies within watersheds.
Chenxi Li
Chenxi Li is an Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, China. He has been invited as an article editor for journal of SAGE Open in 2020.He has been invited as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology in 2021. He has authored and co-authored more than 25 papers and book chapters in his fields. His research interests include Natural Resource Management, Environmental Sciences, Land Use and Cover Change, Coupled-natural-and-human-systems, Urban-Rural Integrated Development.
Weiqi Luo
With a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Shantou, China (2003), a M.Sc. in Data Analysis, Network and Nonlinear Dynamical System from the University of York, UK (2004), and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Leeds, UK (2008), Dr. Luo has gained extensive knowledge& experience in applied mathematics and statistics, computer simulations & forecasting, dynamic system and high-dimensional data analysis, to study disease dispersal and mitigation on a multinational scale. He has worked several years as biostatistician at The Food and Environmental Research Agency (UK) before beginning research in Florida (2011) as collaborated research scholar in NCSU and visiting scientist USDA. He played a key role in a wide range of multidisciplinary projects including, but not limited to, risk-based survey of HLB/ACP in FL, CA, TX and AZ, Plum Pox Virus (PPV) survey in NY and CA, Census travel modelling, agent-based disease simulation, GIS disease mapping and Aerial image processing.
Brendan P Malone
My research focus is in using quantitative methods to precisely understand how soils function and change- spatially, and through time.
I research methods for comprehensive digital soil mapping aiming to characterize soil both in the lateral and vertical dimensions.
I research methods for quantifying (and validating) measures of uncertainty for these comprehensive soil information systems.
I investigate innovative systems for soil measurement, which includes that associated with remote and proximal and soil sensing instrumentation. I have particular interest in infrared and x-ray spectroscopy.
Gang Mei
Dr. Gang Mei is an Associate Professor in Scientific Computing in Engineering at China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He received his Ph.D degree in 2014 from the University of Freiburg in Germany. His main research interests are in the areas of Numerical Simulation and Computational Modeling, GPU Computing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Network Science and Applications. He is the IEEE Member, and has served as an Academic Editor for the journals IEEE Access, and PeerJ Computer Science.