Gypsy Bhalla- RS&P Commission Chair (ACT)

Gypsy Bhalla has a degree in Applied Science, majoring in Remote Sensing and GIS from University of Canberra, Australia.  She has worked in the commercial sector in spatial information technology for a number of years focussing on client delivery of imagery and GIS based integrated products.  She currently is working within Australian Government and has remained within the remote sensing and spatial data areas for over thirteen years.

Her current role is Assistant Director, Geomatic and Spatial Systems Directorate of Advanced Capabilities, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO). Gypsy is also completing a Masters of Applied Science by research, based on the legal implications of Australian government spatial data policy arising from data delivery via the Internet. She has been an active SSI ACT Region Committee member since 2006 and with the support of the SSI, is working on building and coordinating activities towards the Women’s Spatial Network for the ACT Region.

Simon Jones- Past Commission Chair (Vic)

Simon is Associate Professor of Remote Sensing  at RMIT University. He has worked for the School of Oriental and African Studies, Birkbeck and University Colleges (all University of London), the University of Melbourne and the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Italy.

Paul Dare-Certification Chair (SA)

Paul  is a director of Spatial Scientific Technologies Pty. Ltd.,a company he founded in 2005. He undertakes R&D and commercial operations in the field of airborne remote sensing and geospatial software development. Paul is also an adjunct senior lecturer at Flinders University. Paul was the inaugaural RS&P Commission Chair.

Craig Smith-ACT

Craig Smith is a Project Leader at the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES), Geoscience Australia. He has nearly 20 years experience in satellite remote sensing projects at ACRES.  His work involves managing projects and providing advice on a wide range of technical and business matters relating to satellite image data products generated from ACRES archive of time series data.

He is also the Leader of the CRC Spatial Information Research Project, Automatic Near Real-Time Thematic Mapping based on MODIS.His tertiary education includes a Bachelor of Surveying, University of NSW, 1977; Registered Surveyor 1985, and Post Graduate Studies in Remote Sensing, University of NSW, 1986. Craig is the author or co-author of 12 Conference and Journal papers.

Linlin Ge-NSW

Linlin is currently a Senior Lecturer of remote sensing and GPS in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Project Leader and Senior Research Fellow with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.  He received his BEng (1st Hons) in Optical Engineering from the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (1985), MSc in Crustal Deformation from the Institute of Seismology (1988), and PhD in GPS and remote sensing from the UNSW (2001). In 1997-1998, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency sponsored by the Science and Technology Agency of Japan.

Linlin is a Representative on the National Committee of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Commission and foundation member of the Spatial Sciences Institute. He is a Member of the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) and a Life Member of the AGU (the American Geophysical Union). He is also the Co-chair of Sub-Commission 4.4 “Applications of Satellite and Airborne Imaging Systems” of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and a Principal Investigator for satellite missions such as Envisat, ALOS and Radarsat-2.  Linlin is also a Visiting Professor of the NSW Department of Lands.

Bruce Forster-NSW

Chris Kinzett-NZ

Andrew Edwards-NT

Andrew graduated from the Northern Territory University in 1995 with a BSc (Earth Science) which included GIS and Remote Sensing. Employed as the GIS officer at the Northern Territory Parks & Wildlife Commission Andrew became involved in fire mapping for the 3 major National Parks in the “Top End”: Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk. This then lead to a full-time position with the Bushfires Council, (the NT rural fire authority) where Andrew was creating fire related products from a multitude of satellite sources for clients right across northern Australia, finally leading to the development of NAFI (the North Australia Fire Information web site).

Andrew is now enrolled at Charles Darwin University undertaking a PhD thesis entitled “Spectral characterisation of burn severity in north Australian tropical savanna woodlands”.

Andrew recently co-convened the 14 ARSPC in October, 2008.

Renee Bartolo-NT

Renee is a Spatial Scientist with the Department of the Environment & Water Resources’ Supervising Scientist Division. She is currently developing a monitoring framework using remote sensing data for the Alligators Rivers Region (which includes Kakadu National Park). Renee is also involved in a surface water mapping project through the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) CERF hub combining MODIS and SAR data.

Renee has been involved with the Remote Sensing & Photogrammtery Commission since 2005. She is the immediate SSI Past President and has been a SSI Board member since November 2005. Renee has been involved in promoting the Young Professionals and helped initiate the SSI Women in Spatial initiative. She was a co-convener of the 14 Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference held in Darwin in 2008.

Stuart Phinn-Qld

Stuart is a lecturer in Remote Sensing theory and applications with the Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture at the University of Queensland.

Bernard Fitzpatrick-Qld

Ken Clarke-SA

Arko Lucieer-Tas

Arko is a lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Tasmania. He has 10 years of research experience and strong international collaborations in Europe and Australia. He has extensive experience in developing classification algorithms and visualization tools for satellite imagery with a focus on fuzzy logic. His speciality is in developing functional software tools from novel research ideas.

His current research looks at remotely sensed change detection techniques to monitor environmental change with a focus on subantarctic applications. More information on his research can be found at http://www.lucieer.net

Mick Russell-Tas

Chris Bellman-Vic

Brendon McAtee-WA