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Nationality
  
Iranian

Name
  
Abbas Rajabifard

Role
  
Professor


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Born
  
23 August 1966 (age 57) (
1966-08-23
)

Fields
  
Geographic information system

Melbourne Knowledge Week 2012 - Professor Abbas Rajabifard


Abbas Rajabifard (in Persian عباس رجبی فرد) (born August 23, 1966) is a professor and the head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the director of the Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA).

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Education

Rajabifard received his Bachelor of Science (Surveying Engineering) from Khaje Nassireddin Toussi University in Teheran, Iran, in 1990. Later, he furthered his studies at the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Science (ITC) in Enschede, Netherlands. There, he was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Production Photogrammetry in 1992 and a Master of Science in Integrated Maps and Geoinformation Production in 1993, both with high distinction. Rajabifard conducted his PhD research at the University of Melbourne and gained his doctorate in Geomatics-Spatial Data Infrastructure in 2002.

Professional experience

Rajabifard has been actively supervising projects and publishing works since 1993.

2012-present

Aside from his roles as Head of Department at the University of Melbourne and Center Director at CSDILA, Rajabifard is also the organization leader and academic leader of the Australia Disaster Management Platform (ADMP) – a joint research project between the University of Melbourne and IBM. He is also the director of recently established the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) at the University of Melbourne. The CDMPS is focused on conducting multi-disciplinary research and training on disaster management and public safety both nationally and internationally. He has been a member of Victorian Spatial Council (VSC) since November 2007 and is also a senior research fellow in the University’s Department of Geomatics since 2004.

2005-2012

Rajabifard coordinated research projects, supervised postgraduate projects and also supported research activities with external partners as CSDILA Center Director. In June 2009, he was appointed as the president of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association. This society is a leading international association in the development of spatial information and management. He has been a member of the International Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JBGIS) since June 2009 and was a member of the Melbourne School of Engineering Development Committee at the University of Melbourne between October 2009 and October 2010. Between 2006 and 2008, Rajabifard was the Australian member of ICA-Spatial Data Standards Commission. He was nominated by the Executive Board of the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia. From 2002 till 2006, he steered the UN-Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific.

1993-2005

From 1993 till 1998, Rajabifard was a member of National Spatial Data Committee of Standard Organization in Iran where he played a role in defining Iran’s national standard in digital spatial data. In 1994, he was invited by the Ministry of Higher Education in Iran to partake in a curriculum update of an undergraduate surveying course relating to emerging mapping technology. He was also one of the founders of the first Master of Science course in the Department of Surveying in Khaje Nassireddin Toussi University in Tehran, Iran. In years between 1994 and 1999, he represented Iran as an executive board member in the Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP). He was also in charge of several Base-map projects and has supervised many GIS application projects at local, state and national levels in Iran. Upon receiving his doctorate in Geomatics-Spatial Data Infrastructure from the University of Melbourne, Rajabifard has actively supervised numerous postgraduate and graduate research projects. Between July 2004 and June 2005, he was the project leader in Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI).

Member of editorial boards

Rajabifard is a member of editorial boards in several journals and magazine. Some of these publications are:

  • Journal of Spatial Science
  • Asian Journal of Geoinformatics (AJG)
  • International Journal of Armanshahr
  • Geospatial World
  • Surveying Journal
  • Coordinates
  • Reviewer and referee

    As a University professor and researcher, Rajabifard has reviewed several papers in journals and magazines. Some of them are:

  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
  • International Journal of Computers & Geosciences
  • International Journal of SDIs Research (IJSDIR)
  • IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Environmental Informatics
  • Land Use Policy Journal (LUP)
  • Journal of Spatial Science
  • Asian Journal of Geoinformatics (AJG)
  • Journal of Transactions in GIS
  • Selected conferences and seminars (GSDI, Geomatics, Spatial Science Conferences, GIS Conferences, ISPRS, AURISA)
  • Coordinates Professional Magazine
  • International Journal of Armanshahr
  • Papers

    Rajabifard’s papers are available from the CSDILA website. A complete list of conference and magazine papers, technical reports, presentations and supervised projects is available from Rajabifard’s webpage at the University of Melbourne website. Selection of his most recent published works:

  • Agunbiade, M., Rajabifard, A., Bennett, R., 2013, Modes of housing production in developing countries: the contemporary role of land, labour, and capital in Lagos, Nigeria, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment: Volume 28, Issue 2 (2013), Page 363-379.
  • Agunbiade, M., Rajabifard, A., Bennett, R., 2013, Land administration for housing production: analysis of need for interagency integration, Survey Review, Appeared or available online: 5 August 2013, DOI: 10.1179/1752270613Y.0000000062.
  • Aien, A., Kalantari, M., Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I., and Bennett, R., 2013. Utilising Data Modelling to Understand the Structure of 3D Cadastres. Journal of Spatial Science, accepted. DOI:10.1080/14498596.2013.801330.
  • Shojaei, D., Kalantari, M., Bishop, I., Rajabifard, A., and Aien, A., 2013, Visualization Requirements for 3D Cadastral Systems, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, accepted.
  • Bennett, R, Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I., and Wallace, J., 2013, ‘On recognizing land administration as critical, public good infrastructure’ Land Use Policy, Vol. 30 (1), pp. 84–93.
  • Cooper, A.K., Moellering, H., Hjelmager, J., Rapantd, P., Delgado, T., Laurent, D., Coetzee, S., Danko, D.M., Duren, U., Iwaniak, A., Brodeur, J., Abad, P., Huet, M., Rajabifard, A., 2012, A spatial data infrastructure model from the computational viewpoint, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis Online (DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.741239)
  • Agunbiade, M., Rajabifard, A., Bennett, R., 2012, The dynamics of city growth and the impact on urban land policies in developing countries, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 146–165.
  • Sutanta, H., Rajabifard, A., Bishop, I. D. 2012. ‘Disaster risk reduction using acceptable risk measures for spatial planning’, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 09 Jun 2012 (Online).
  • Agunbiade, M., Rajabifard, A., Bennett, R. 2012. Modes of housing production in developing countries: the contemporary role of land, labour, and capital in Lagos, Nigeria. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (in press).
  • Bennett, R., Tambuwala, N., Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I. and Wallace, J. 2012. On recognizing land administration as critical, public good infrastructure. Land use policy, 30(1), 84-93.
  • Olfat, H., Kalantari, M., Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I. P. and Senot, H. 2012. Spatial Metadata Automation: A Key to Spatially Enabling Platform. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 7, 173-195.
  • Olfat, H., Kalantari, M., Rajabifard, A., Senot, H. and Williamson, I. P. 2012. A GML-based Approach to Automate Spatial Metadata Updating. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 27 (2), pp. 231–250.
  • Olfat, H., Kalantari, M., Rajabifard, A. and Williamson, I. 2012. Towards a Foundation for Spatial Metadata Automation. Journal of Spatial Science, 57(1), 65-81.
  • Tambuwala, N., Rajabifard, A., Bennett, R., Wallace, J. and Williamson, I. 2012. Inter-governmental land information asymmetries in Australia. Journal of Spatial Sciences, 57(1), 83-100.
  • Vaez, S. and Rajabifard, A., 2012. Seamless SDI Design by Using UML Modeling. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, Vol. 7, 207-224.
  • Books

    The full list of Rajabifard’s book contributions is available from his webpage at the University of Melbourne website. A selection of his most recent works are:

  • Rajabifard, A., Eagleson, S. (Eds.) 2013, ‘Spatial Data Access and Integration to Support Liveability-A Case Study in North and West Melbourne’, ISBN 978-0-9922918-0-8, Melbourne University, Australia 106pp.
  • Rajabifard, A., Williamson, I., Kalantari, M. (Eds.) 2012, ‘A National Infrastructure for Managing Land Information’, ISBN 978-0-646-59180-3, Melbourne University, Australia 124 pp.
  • Rajabifard, A. and Coleman, D. (Ed.), 2012, ‘Spatially Enabling Government, Industry and Citizens’ ISBN 978-0-9852444-0-8, GSDI Press. 277 pp.
  • Steudler, D., and Rajabifard, A., (Eds.) 2012, ‘Spatially Enabled Society’, ISBN 978-87-90907-97-6, FIG Publication 58, Copenhagen, FIG Press, Denmark, 68 pp.
  • Awards and honors

  • Global Spatial Data Infrastructure President Medal, presented at the Geospatial World Conference, Quebec, Canada, 2012
  • The Most Cited Article Award 2005 to 2010 from ELSEVIER-Computers and Geosciences, ISI Journal, 2011
  • Awarded FIG Logo/Icon from Federation of Surveyor (FIG) Congress, Sydney for Keynote presentation, 2010
  • Awarded an embossed glass plaque from United Nations (handed by Professor Paul Cheung, Director of the United Nations Statistics division) for outstanding contributions over many years to the UN Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and Pacific (UNRCC-AP) and the UN-sponsored Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and Pacific (PCGIAP) during the opening Plenary Session, of 18th UNRCC-AP held in Bangkok, Thailand on 26–29 October 2009.
  • Awarded a Conference Plaque from Joint ISPRS and GIS Conference, Tehran, Iran for Keynote presentation, 2008
  • Invitation to become member of International Editorial Board of Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, 2007
  • Invitation to become a member of the GoverningCouncil of the Trans Asiatic GIS Society (TAGS), Asia, 2007
  • Appointed to the position of Honorary Treasurer of the Global SDI Association, 2006
  • Nomination and invitation from the Executive of the Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia to serve as the Australian member of the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission, 2005
  • References

    Abbas Rajabifard Wikipedia