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 geovisualization at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC and she leads NCSU GeoForAll lab, one of the founding labs of the OSGeo research and education initiative. She is a member of editorial boards for Geomorphology and Computers & Geosciences and has published numerous publications on tools and applications of GRASS GIS. She has 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
 * member of the Board of Directors
 * member of GRASS PSC
 * member of the OSGeo conference and education committees
 * OSGeo charter member
 * coordinator of the geo4all initiative, primary contact for North America
 * lead faculty for Open Source Geospatial Research and Education Lab (OSGeo REL) at NCSU
 * development of graduate courses on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling using GRASS GIS and other FOSS4G software, offered at NCSU Geospatial Information Science and Technology program
 * 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: 23 May 2017