Alan Forghani Joining the GIS Center

Alan Forghani will join the GIS Center as a Visiting Scholar for 2006-2007 on September 1.

Dr Forghani is currently a remote sensing scientist in the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia. 
He has a Bachelor of Engineering Science, University of Mazanderan in Iran; Masters in Engineering Science, University of New South Wales; a PhD in Geographical Information Systems, University of Tasmania; and a Graduate Certificate in Management through sponsorship from Geoscience Australia, University of Western Sydney. 

At UC, Berkley, Alan will investigate bushfire research systems for fire forecast spread mapping using characteristics derived from satellite imagery.