Prof. Arnon
Karnieli received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona,
Tucson, in 1988. Since then, he has been
the Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for
Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus,
Israel. His main research is focused on processing of spaceborne, airborne, and ground
spectroscopic data of drylands with respect to desertification and climate
change processes. In this regard, his
study’s applications cover dryland ecosystems and agriculture, and to a
lesser extent dust/aerosols and coastal water.
In 2014,
Prof. Karnieli was ranked among the top 20 researchers
in the world in the field of remote sensing discipline by the Scientometrics
journal. He is the Israeli Principal
Investigator of the recreantly launched Vegetation and Environmental New Micro
Spacecraft (VENμS) mission. So far he supervised tens of master students,
15 PhD students, and several post-docs.
Prof.
Karnieli has published more than 200 papers in
peer-reviewed journals. His H
index = 42
(ISI).
Research areas:
- Remote
sensing
- Spatial
and temporal spaceborne-derived data analysis
- Time-series
analysis of the VENµS data
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Field
spectroscopy, and image processing applications for (1) desertification and
climate change processes; (2) drylands ecology; and (3) precision agriculture
in drylands farming.