Igor Rizaev

Igor Rizaev received the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in geoinformatics engineering and the Ph.D. degree in geosciences from Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He has expertise in the geoengineering industry (photogrammetry, laser scanning), having followed a series of technical courses in the field of remote sensing and engineering/surveying with the world’s leading geospatial engineering companies (including Leica Geosystems, Switzerland, Optech, Inc., Canada, and Terrasolid Ltd., Finland). During this time, he was promoted from Software Engineer to a Team Leader. In 2014, he became a Lecturer and progressed to Senior Lecturer with the Department of Geoinformatics, Kuban State University, in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K. He is currently a Research Associate of mathematical modeling with the Visual Information Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. His research interests include remote sensing, spatial statistics, image processing, and geospatial engineering areas with the application of SAR, LiDAR, multispectral, and thermal imaging in geosciences.