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GIS & Remote Sensing

Shushanik Asmaryan

Head of GIS and Remote Sensing Department

PhD in Geography

The research activities of the GIS and Remote Sensing department are oriented to implementing geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing technologies in multidisciplinary environmental studies and establishing the remote sensing component of environmental monitoring system in Armenia.

 

GIS and RS technologies are applied for assessing and monitoring

  • Landscape stability associated with climate change
  • Urban ecological comfort and urban heat islands
  • Agricultural lands (pastures, grasslands, vineyards etc.)
  • Soil, water, plant stress and pollution
  • Inland water bodies

 

The department is recognized for well specialized professional staff. It is well equiped for passive (satellite, arial and field spectroradiometric) and active remote sensing technical capacities.
The GIS and Remote Sensing department has a strong network of local and international patrnership, which supports the implementation of joint research projects, publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and continious training of specialists in the international and educational centers․
Since 2022 a new “Data science and machine learning” research group has been formed in the department, which supports the enhancment of the methods of the remote sensing data processing by adapting the best ML algorithms.

 

 

Projects

Preparation of the atlas of zoonotic infections in South Caucasus

ATLAS project (2020-2023), “Preparation of the atlas of zoonotic infections in South Caucasus”, Funding: US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (USA)

Capacity building of using machine learning for processing geospatial data in geoecological investigations

ML4GEO project (2020-2023) (Project ID: 20TTCG-1E009) “Capacity building of using machine learning for processing geospatial data in geoecological investigations”, funded by the State Committee of Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Armenia, in frames of the call for proposals on “Supporting capacity building of the research laboratories or groups”

Building up science-based management instruments for Lake Sevan, Armenia

SEVAMOD2 project (Project ID 01DK20038), (2020-2023) “Building up science-based management instruments for Lake Sevan, Armenia” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and co‐funded by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Armenia (partial coverage of costs of chemical analyses)

CO-production with Nature for City Transitioning, Innovation and Governance

Connecting Nature project (2017-2022), “CO-production with Nature for City Transitioning, Innovation and Governance”, funded by the HORIZON 2020 framework program of the European Commission.

Supporting Armenia in Building the Armenian Data Cube

ADC4SD (2018-2020), “Supporting Armenia in Building the Armenian Data Cube”

EU Cooperation Capacity Building of Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia: Towards Armenia’s Integration into ERA

Deploying Armenian distributed Processing capacities for Environmental GEOspatial data

ARPEGEO project, “Deploying ARmenian distributed Processing capacities for Environmental GEOspatial data”, 2011-2013

Strengthening capacities to implement active remote sensing technologies in environmental research

ActiRS4ENV project
Project ID: 23LCG-1E016
“Strengthening capacities to implement active remote sensing technologies in environmental research”
2023-2028

Developing remote sensing method for assessing ecological state of mountainous lakes using the data of very high resolution

Project ID։ 18RF-140, 
2018-2020