Helena Mitasova

Bio

As Associate Director of Earth and Environmental Sciences Applications, Helena provides strategic leadership for the center’s research agenda, especially work that uses Tangible Landscape. Helena develops geospatial analytics to investigate coastal evolution, soil erosion control, natural hazards, and sustainable land management. Tangible geospatial modeling environments, dynamic simulations of landscape processes, and analyses of LiDAR time series data are some of the research frontiers she is advancing. Her interests also include Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) remote sensing and open source software development. Helena is a member of the OSGeo Foundation and the Open Source GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee, and is co-author of the first book on Open Source GRASS GIS.

Publications

• Active Remote Sensing Assessment of Biomass Productivity and Canopy Structure of Short-Rotation Coppice American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) , Remote Sensing (2024)
• Estimating Rates of Change to Interpret Quantitative Wastewater Surveillance of Disease Trends , (2024)
• Estimating rates of change to interpret quantitative wastewater surveillance of disease trends , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2024)
• An open-source platform for geospatial participatory modeling in the cloud , ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE (2023)
• Integrating GRASS GIS and Jupyter Notebooks to facilitate advanced geospatial modeling education , Transactions in GIS (2023)
• Performance of unoccupied aerial application systems for aquatic weed management: Two novel case studies , Weed Technology (2023)
• Point Density Variations in Airborne Lidar Point Clouds , SENSORS (2023)
• Predicting residential septic system malfunctions for targeted drone inspections , Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2023)
• Spatially interactive modeling of land change identifies location-specific adaptations most likely to lower future flood risk , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2023)
• Tell Me Where to Go: An Experiment in Spreading Visitor Flows in The Netherlands , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023)