| Expert Name | Mr. Arnon Karnieli |
| Title | Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory |
| Division | Desert Research Institute |
| Institution | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| City | Sede Boqer |
| Country | Israel |
| Telephone | 972 7 659 6855 |
| Email | karnieli(at)bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| Work Experience | Dr. Arnon Karnieli has considerable knowledge and experience in desert studies. His current activities are dealing with drought monitoring in the Negev Desert by remote sensing; Characterization and mapping of desert soils by remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) in Central Asia; Monitoring desertification processes in Gobi Desert; Linking between GISA of salt affected soil and vegetation and remote sensing in. Aral Sea delta. Most of these projects are funded by the US-AID and by the EU in framework of the ITAS and INCO programs. |
| Qualifications | Ph.D., Hydrology and Remote, University of Arizona, 1988 |
| Number of Publications | 52 |
| Awards | |
| Other Activities | 1977: national Research Council (NRC) Research Assocateship Award at the NASA/Goaddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA;
1996: The Science and Technology Agency (STA) Fellowship Award from the Research and Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC);
1982: M. Goldsmith award from the Israeli Society of Geodesic and Geophysics, the Hydrology Section |
| Publications | 1. Karnieli, A., and Tsoar, H., 1995: Satellite spectral reflectance of biogenic crust developed on desert dune sand along the Israel-Egypt border. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16, 369-374;
2. Karnieli, A., et al. The effects of microphytes on the spectral reflectance of vegetation in semi-arid regions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 57, 88-96;
3. Karnieli, A., 1997: Development and implementation of spectral crust index over sand dunes. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 18, 1207-1220'
4. Karnieli, A., Verchovsky, I., Hall, J.K., and Oren, E., 1998: Geographic information system for semi-detailed mapping of soils in semi-arid region. Geocarto International, 13-3, 29-43;
5. Karnieli, A., Kaufman, Y.J., Tanre, D., 2000. Detection of dust over desert using satellite data in the solar wavelengths. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38, 525 |
| Discipline | Ecology/Ecosystems |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 12:09:00 |
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