Goran Pavlic

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in Geological Engineering, 1981, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Contact Information: Goran Pavlic

AWARDS

1998 The Head of Public Service Award (Fire Project Team)

2005 NRC Merit and Employment Equity and Diversity Award (Water Resources Accounts Team)

2005 ESS Merit Award (Water Resources Accounts Team)

2006 ESS Merit Award (Arctic Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Accounting Team)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH

  • InSAR for monitoring geohazards involving image processing and interpretation in conjunction with field based data.
  • Satellite data fusion for geological mapping.
  • Environmental monitoring and modeling using satellite data integration and geo-spatial techniques.
  • Software development  for feature extraction
  • GIS based methodology development to map national, regional and local geo-spatial data sets   
  • Engineering Geology (landslides, open pit slope stability)

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Pavlic G., V. Singhroy, A. Duk-Rodkin, and P.J. Alasset (2008) “Satellite Data Fusion Techniques for Terrain and Surficial Geological Mapping” Proceedings IGARSS IEEE International Geosciencies and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, USA, Volume: 3, On Page(s): III-314-III-317

Pavlic G., W. Chen, R. Fernandes, J. Cihlar, D.T. Price, R. Latifovic, R. Fraser and S.G. Leblanc (2007) “ Canada-wide maps of dominant tree species from remotely sensed and ground data” Geocarto International, 22(3), pp. 185 – 204.

Zhang Q., G. Pavlic, W. Chen, R. Fraser, S.G. Leblanc and J. Cihlar (2005) “A semi-automatic segmentation procedure for feature extraction in remotely sensed imagery” Computers & Geosciences, 31:289-296

J. M. Chen, G. Pavlic, L. Brown, J. Cihlar, S.G. Leblanc, H.P. White, R.J. Hall, D. Peddle, D.J. King, J.A. Trofymow, E. Swift, J. Van der Sanden, P. Pellikka (2002) “Derivation and validation of Canada-wide leaf area index maps using high and moderate resolution satellite imagery and ground measurements” Remote Sensing of Environment. 80 165-184

Pavlic G., R. Fernandes, W. Chen, R. Fraser and S.G. Leblanc (2002) ”Methods for deriving Canada-wide geo-spatial datasets in support of environmental monitoring and modelling” The Joint International Symposium on Geospatial Theory, Processing and Applications, 9-12 July 2002, Ottawa, Canada, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Canadian Institute of Geomatics.

List of publications for Goran Pavlic in GEOSCAN