Maria Teresa Melis

Maria Teresa Melis received the graduate degree in geology, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing application to arid and semiarid geomorphological mapping, in 1995. She is an Adjunct Professor with GIS, and the Technical Responsible for the “TeleGIS” Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. She is Co-Chair of the III Commission Remote sensing with ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), WGIII 1—Thematic Information Extraction. She has authored or coauthored more than 50 papers and contribution in books. Her research interests include remote sensing applied to geological/land cover/geomorphological analysis in remote areas (cold and hot arid lands). Dr. Melis is Member of the Scientific Council of ASITA (Federation of Italian Scientific Associations in Environmental and Land Information). She was the Vice President of the Italian Association of Remote Sensing. Authored or coauthored more than 50 papers and contribution in books.