Staff profiles
Salman AshrafRemote Sensing Scientist
Qualifications
- PhD, Remote Sensing
- BSc, Space Science
- MSc, Space Science
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Remote Sensing
- Geology: GIS
- Geology: Photogrammetry
- Geology: Hazard mapping
- Geomorphology: Digital photogrammetry
- Geomorphology: Aerial photograph interpretation
- Geomorphology: Remote sensing
- Geomorphology: Vegetation mapping
- Geology: Digital terrain models
Publications
Selection of major publications
- A method for evaluating population and infrastructure exposed to natural hazards: tests and results for two recent Tonga tsunamis, Geoenvironmental Disasters 10: article 4. DOI: 10.1186/s40677-023-00235-8. article 4
- Mineral prospecting from biogeochemical and geological information using hyperspectral remote sensing - feasibility and challenges, Journal of geochemical exploration 232: article 106900. DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2021.106900. article 106900
- Improved environmental monitoring of surface geothermal features through comparisons of thermal infra-red, satellite remote sensing and terrestrial calorimetry, Geothermics 73: p. 60-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2018.01.007. p. 60-73
- An assessment of pan-sharpening algorithms for mapping mangrove ecosystems : a hybrid approach, International journal of remote sensing 38(6): p. 1579-1599. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1278311. p. 1579-1599
- Mapping surface liquefaction caused by the September 2010 and February 2011 Canterbury earthquakes : a digital dataset, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59(4): p. 496-513. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2016.1182929. p. 496-513
- Combining QuickBird, LiDAR, and GIS topography indices to identify a single native tree species in a complex landscape using an object-based classification approach, International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation 50: p. 187-197. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2016.03.015. p. 187-197
- Rock avalanche on 14 July 2014 from Hillary Ridge, Aoraki/Mount Cook, New Zealand, Landslides 12(2): p. 395-402. DOI: 10.1007/s10346-015-0556-7. p. 395-402
- Introducing contrast and luminance normalisation to improve the quality of subtractive resolution merge technique, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion 4(3): p. 230-251. DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2013.782072. p. 230-251
- Hindcasting water clarity from Landsat satellite images of unmonitored shallow lakes in the Waikato region, New Zealand, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment <i>Online first</i>: DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3098-2.