
Seyed Kazem Alavipanah
Professor
University of Tehran
Iran
Biography
Prof. Dr. Seyed Kazem Alavipanah is a faculty member of Remote Sensing and GIS department in University of Tehran. He has received his PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS (soil) in University of Ghent, Belgium, in 1997. He has received about 10 awards and honors and issued 10 books mainly on Remote Sensing and GIS, on art and humanities, and also published more than 250 articles and conducted more than 20 projects. He has membership in national institute of Iranian elites and editorial board in many Remote Sensing and Earth Sciences journals. He was a member of Intergovernmental Panel on Soils (ITPS), and coordinator of World Soil Report of North East and North Africa, FAO-UN from 2013 to 2015. He presented the theory of “Heat as an Indicator for Intelligence of the World†(relation of time, space, and thermal remote sensing)
Research Interest
GIS & Remote Sensing