Helena Mitasova
Associate Director of Earth and Environmental Sciences Applications
Exploring Models through Tangible Interaction, Modeling of Landscape Processes
Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Jordan Hall 2127
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
- 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)
- Tell Me Where to Go: An Experiment in Spreading Visitor Flows in The Netherlands , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023)
- Timing and Trends for Municipal Wastewater, Lab-Confirmed Case , and Syndromic Case Surveillance of COVID-19 in Raleigh, North Carolina , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2023)
- More is Not Better: The Emotional Dynamics of an Excellent Experience , JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM RESEARCH (2022)
- Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2022)
- Rapid-DEM: Rapid Topographic Updates through Satellite Change Detection and UAS Data Fusion , REMOTE SENSING (2022)