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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.