User:Helena

Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Helena has participated in the GRASS GIS development since 1991 and co-authored the first book on GRASS. She is an associate director for earth and environmental sciences applications at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, NC and she leads NCSU GeoForAll lab, one of the founding labs of the OSGeo research and education initiative. She published numerous publications on tools and applications of GRASS GIS. She co-developed methods for spatial interpolation, terrain analysis, hydrologic and erosion modeling and visualization. She received her PhD from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

OSGeo Experience
 * past member of the Board of Directors
 * member of GRASS PSC
 * past member of the OSGeo conference and education committees
 * OSGeo charter member
 * lead faculty for NCSU GeoForAll Lab
 * development of graduate courses on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using GRASS GIS and other FOSS4G software, offered at NCSU by the Center for Geospatial Analytics
 * research on terrain analysis, geospatial modeling and visualization at University of Illinois, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories and NCSU.


 * Contact: hmitaso@ncsu.edu


 * Spoken Languages
 * English, Slovak


 * Profile last updated: 12 October 2023