Mihai Tanase

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Born and raised in Bucharest I started my trip around the world at 14 when I moved north to study forestry within a specialized high school program followed by a BS in Forest Management. Once task accomplished, nine years later, I returned home working as an engineer at the Forest Research and Management Institute. During this period I have also enhanced my education with a bachelor in economics. Five years later I have decided to follow a Masters program at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (Greece). This brought a change to my career which afterwards focused on remote sensing applications for forest management. Following the master, I went for a PhD degree at the University of Saragossa (Spain). A postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Melbourne set me adrift towards the end of the world were I have remained since together with my dear companions Cris, Oscar and Marcos. As a good forester I like trekking, camping, and generally all kind of outdoors activities. I also like learning new things and taking on new challenges. You will learn more about me by browsing this website. If you want to know about my professional background, check the “Research” page. The photo gallery showcases some of my trips, activities and friends. For any doubt, curiosity or suggestion contact me.

Mihai Tanase

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  • Research Interests

    • Natural Hazards

      (forest fires, floods)

      My interests are focused on pre- and post-fire forest management and the use of remote sensing for landscape scale assessment of fuel type, fuel load, fire effects and live fuels moisture content. I am using a variety of remote sensing sensors from high resolution optical to synthetic aperture radar and airborne laser scanning. Over the past 10 years I have developed new methods based on SAR for estimating fire severity and forest regrowth in a range of environments. The pioneering nature of this effort resulted in the publication of several articles one of which was awarded the Interactive Prize Paper Award by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. I have also demonstrated the utility of SAR data for the retrieval of live canopy moisture content which is relevant for fire risk evaluation. Recently, I have proposed the use of a novel index, the standardized Radar Burn Ratio, for the estimation of fire severity without the need for a priori information from field campaigns.

    • Carbon cycling

      (forest biomass, fire emissions)

      I am interested in airborne and space-borne radar data to understand the main factors influencing forest biomass quantification errors. My work focuses on improving biomass estimation accuracy from dense multi-temporal series and advanced radar techniques such as polarimetry and interferometry. I have also worked on enhancing existing backscatter models with a priori forest structural information obtained from lidar sensors.

    • Environmental change

      (land use & land cover change)

       I am also interested in broad scale changes of land use land cover types with an emphasis on forest change caused by natural disasters or the anthropic influence. I am using a range of methods and sensors such as object and pixel based classification techniques, change detection, and trajectory analysis as well as a range of sensors from high and very high spatial resolution optical satellite images to synthetic aperture radar and their synergy.

  • Education

    • PhD Geography

      University of Zaragoza (2006-2010)

      Spatial Planning and Environment program Thesis: SAR Sensitivity to Burn Severity and Forest Recovery in Mediterranean Environments – backscatter and interferometric coherence analysis. Grade: Maxima cum laude with European Honors, Date: December 3rd 2010.

    • MSc Environmental Management

      Mediterranean Agronomic Institue of Chania (2004-2006)

      Curricula on Remote Sensing and GIS for environmental management Thesis: Fuel type mapping using high and very high spatial resolution satellite imagery”. Grade: Maxima cum laude

    • BSc Economics

      Academy of Economic Studies (1999-2003)

      Financial markets and banking program, Thesis: Mortgage loans, a way to develop real estate market in Romania.

    • BSc Honors Silviculture

      Stefan cel Mare University (1994-1999)

      Silviculture and forest management, Thesis: Decadal forest management planning for Doroteia forest district.

  • Employment

    • University of Alcala

      Research Fellow (2015-present)

      Multi-temporal data series analysis and radar-optical data fusion for vegetation and natural disasters monitoring

     
    • University of Melbourne

      Research Fellow (2011-2014)

      Development of algorithms for forest characterization from remote sensing data with an emphasis on radar and lidar sensors; Analysis of spatial patterns of vegetation moisture content; Calibration and validation of airborne synthetic aperture radar data; Development of field protocols for data collection; Field data collection and processing; Planning airborne surveys; Soil moisture estimation.

    • University of Zaragoza

      Research Fellow (2008-2010)

      Polarimetric, interferometric and backscatter analysis of synthetic aperture radar data over areas affected by natural hazards; Forest monitoring using synthetic aperture radar data; Burn severity estimation at regional level using optical sensors.

    • Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (part-time)

      Research assistant (2005-2006)

      Development of land-cover/land-use maps using QuickBird and Ikonos satellite imagery and object-oriented analysis; Research on hyper-spectral satellite imagery for pre-fire planning and management; Pixel and object oriented mapping of forest fuels; Collection of vegetation spectral signatures; Accuracy assessment of the derived mapping products.

    • Forest Research and Management Institute

      Research fellow (2002-2004)

      Forest monitoring within the framework of the European ICP program and the Romanian national monitoring program; Monitoring air pollution effects on forest health in the Carpathian Mountains; Forest management planning and conservation of virgin forests; Field data collection, processing and analysis.

    • Forest Research and Management Institute

      Engineer (1999-2002)

      Forest management planning; Statistical analysis on wood volume harvested at national level from private forests; Statistical analysis on forest excluded from the privatization process.

  • Remote Sensing Skills

    Optical sensors 70%
    
                            
    SAR sensors 85%
    
                            
    LiDAR 70%
    
                            
    Signal processing 35%
    
                            
    Field campaign 85%
    
                            
  • Software skills

    Gamma RS 85%
    
                            
    ITT ENVI 80%
    
                            
    ESRI ArcGIS 70%
    
                            
    Matlab 50%
    
                            
    Statistica & SPSS 50%
    
                            
    PolSARpro 70%
    
                            
    Erdas Imagine 65%
    
                            
    IDRISI 40%
    
                            

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Projects

Current projects

  • 2019-2022 “ESA Fire CCI Phase 3 – Fire Disturbance Information for Climate Change Analysis”, WP Lead. Objective: develop a active/passive burned area mapping algorithm based on Sentinel-1/2 imagery.
  • 2016-2020  “EO-ROFORMON – Prototyping an Earth-Observation based monitoring and forecasting system for the Romanian forests”, Romanian National Research and Innovation Authority. Lead Investigator. Objective: prototype a national forest monitoring and forecasting system based on the integration of active (radar) and passive (optical) Earth-Observation (EO) sensors.

Past projects

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  • 2015-2019 “ECOPOTENTIAL: improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations”. Task Lead. Objective: bio-geophysical variables retrieval from active/passive airborne/space-borne Earth Observation data.
  • 2017-2018 ” Radar Burn Ratio for burned area detection and mapping”, Option#3 to ESA`s Fire CCI Phase 2 project (4000115006/15/I-NB), Lead Investigator. Objective: SAR-based detection and mapping of fire affected areas over the Amazon basin.
  • 2013-2018  “Quantifying and monitoring carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems affected by wildfires using multi-temporal SAR data”, JAXA`s 4th ALOS RA. Lead Investigator. Objective: L-band SAR data for forest disturbance monitoring and carbon stocks estimation.
  • 2014  “Novel radar-based methods for improved estimation of fire effects“, Early Career Research Grant (RMS 6021), the University of Melbourne, Lead Investigator.
  • 2011-2013  “Towards operational monitoring of key climate parameters from synthetic aperture radar”, Australian Research Council and the CRC-SI.
  • 2012-2014 “Single pass X-band interferometric data for crop growth monitoring during the vegetation season”, DLR (XTI 0896), Lead Investigator.
  • 2009-2010  “Monitoring of vegetation recovery in forests affected by fire and wind storm using X-, C- and L-band SAR data”, CSA (SOAR-EU 6793), Lead Investigator.
  • 2008-2010  “Fire severity assessment and vegetation recovery monitoring in Mediterranean environments using TerraSAR-X, ALOS PALSAR and ERS data”, DLR (LAN 0464), Lead Investigator.
  • 2008-2010   “Assessing fire severity and monitoring vegetation recovery in Mediterranean environments affected by fires”, ESA (C1P.5446), Lead Investigator.
  • 2007  “Estimation of changes in forest area and biomass in Central Siberia”, within ALOS Kyoto & Carbon Initiative (K&C), Lead Investigator.
  • 2006 “Fuel type mapping using high and very high spatial resolution satellite imagery”, wihtin Fire Paradox, European Comission (FP6-018505),Lead Investigator.
  • 2005 “Land cover / land use object oriented mapping for Kolymvari test site”, within GEOLAND –Integrated GMES EU (SIP3-CT-2003-502871), Lead Investigator.
  • 2000-2003 “Long term effects of air pollution on selected forest ecosystems in the Carpathian Mountains, Europe (Retezat National Park)”, USDA Forest Service, Lead Investigator.
  • 2000-2002  “GIS techniques for analyzing forest monitoring data”, Romanian National Plan for Research and Development, Lead Investigator.

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