User:Helena

Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 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 a member of editorial boards for Geomorphology, Computers and Geosciences and Transactions in GIS and has published over 80 publications demonstrating applications of GRASS GIS. She has researched methods for terrain analysis, geospatial modeling and visualization. She received her PhD from the Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

OSGeo Experience
 * 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: 16 August 2014