Dr. Mohammad Hajeb

Research Associate

Department Remote Sensing

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

Phone +49 341 6025 4964

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 Research interests

• Retrieving vegetation traits from remote sensing data using physically-based and statistical-empirical approaches.
• Applications of Machine Learning in environmental studies using remote sensing data.
• Simulation of satellite images using radiative transfer models (PROSAIL, SLC).
• Time series analysis of environmental data.


Education

 • 2015 –2023      PhD. in Remote Sensing. Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. Thesis: Simultaneous retrieval of vegetation biophysical and biochemical parameters using remote sensing data.

• 2006 –2009      M.Sc. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing. Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Thesis: Road Extraction from LIDAR Data.

• 1999- 2003       B.Sc. Pure Mathematics. Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran. Thesis: Compression in Rn.


 Curriculum Vitae

 • Since 2024      Research associate, Helmholtz centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig, remote sensing department, Land-Cover & Dynamics (LACY) working group.
• 2010–2024      Faculty member in the Center for Remote Sensing and GIS, Earth Science Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran.
• 2014 –2022      Visiting faculty member at University of Applied Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.


 Peer-reviewed Publications

Matkan, A. A., Hajeb, M., Eslami, M., Pourali, H., and Sadeghian, S. (2012), Gap Filling in Road Extraction Using Radon Transformation, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume I-4, XXII, 25 August – 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia,  pp 47-52.

Matkan, A. A., Hajeb, M., Azarakhsh, Z., (2013), Oil Spill Detection from SAR Images Using SVM Based Clasiffication, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-1/W3, pp 55-60.

Matkan, A.A., Hajeb, M., Sadeghian, S., (2014), Road Extraction from LiDAR Data Using Support Vector Machine Classification, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 409–422. (doi: 10.14358/PERS.80.5.409)

Matkan, A. A., Hajeb, M., Mirbagheri B., Sadeghian S., Ahmadi, M., (2014), SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR OUTLIER REMOVAL FROM LIDAR DATA, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-2/W3, pp 187-190. (doi: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-2-W3-187-2014)

Matkan, A. A., Hajeb, M., Azarakhsh, Z., (2015), Target decomposition theory in oil spill detection from SAR data, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2015.1068873.

Akbari, E., Alavipanah, S.K., Jeihouni, M., Hajeb, M., Haase, D. and Alavipanah, S., 2017. A Review of Ocean/Sea Subsurface Water Temperature Studies from Remote Sensing and Non-Remote Sensing Methods. Water, 9(12), p.936.

Brakhasi, F., Matkan, A. A., Hajeb, M., Khoshelham, K., (2018), Atmospheric scene classification using CALIPSO spaceborne lidar measurements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and India. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 73, pp.721-735.

Fouladinejad, F., Matkan, A., Hajeb, M., and Brakhasi, F. (2019). HISTORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SPACE-BORNE LIDARS. The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42, 407-414.

Brakhasi, F., Hajeb, M., and Fouladinejad, F. (2019). DISCRIMINATION AEROSOL FORM CLOUDS USING CATS-ISS LIDAR OBSERVATIONS BASED ON RANDOM FOREST AND SVM ALGORITHMS OVER THE EASTERN PART OF MIDDLE EAST. The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42, 235-240.

Brakhasi, F., Hajeb, M., Mielonen, T., Matkan, A., & Verbesselt, J. (2021). Investigating aerosol vertical distribution using CALIPSO time series over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe, and India: A BFAST-based gradual and abrupt change detection. Remote Sensing of Environment, 264, 112619.

Hajeb, M., Hamzeh, S., Alavipanah, S.K., Neissi, L. and Verrelst, J., (2023). Simultaneous retrieval of sugarcane variables from Sentinel-2 data using Bayesian regularized neural network. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 116, p.103168.

Hamzeh, S., Hajeb, M., Alavipanah, S.K. and Verrelst, J., (2023). Retrieval of Sugarcane Leaf Area Index from Prisma Hyperspectral Data. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10, pp.271-277.