Prof. Dr. Alavipanah is now the head of department of Remote Sensing and GIS in University of Tehran. He has received about 10 awards and honors and issued 10 books mainly on RS and GIS, on art and humanities, and also published about 200 articles and conducted more than 20 projects. He is member of International Desertnet. He has membership in EARSeL, the committee of planning for natural resources of Iran, in high council for natural disasters of Iran, in national institute of Iranian elites and editorial board in many journals. He is also a member of Intergovernmental Panel on Soils (ITPS), and coordinator of World Soil Report of Noth East and North Africa, FAO-UN. Prof. Alavipanah now as his main expertise is interested in thermal remote sensing with first book published in this field.