Eco-Informatics Research
Our environmental studies focus on applying science and technology to promote sustainable environmental management. By integrating remote sensing, extensive fieldwork, and advanced computer modeling, we aim to understand how agricultural, forest, and natural systems respond to climatic and anthropogenic changes. Our research addresses these complex challenges across multiple scales, from individual plots to entire landscapes. Leveraging cutting-edge sensors and remote sensing technologies—such as imaging spectroscopy (IS) and LiDAR—combined with innovative spatial artificial intelligence techniques, we strive to make groundbreaking discoveries that advance sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation.
Lab Research Projects
Long-term monitoring of biodiversity in Israeli agroecosystems
Research team: Assaf Shwartz (Technion), Orenstein Danie (Technion), Yael Mandelik (HUJI), iido izhaki (HU), Avi Bar Massada (HU) Aliza Fleischer (HUJI), Hila Segre (ARO), Tamar Dayan (TAU) Mical Segoli (BGU), Yaron Ziv (BGU), Dror Minz (ARO).
Research Funding: The planning and budgeting committee
Students:
Understanding the fundamental drivers that determine dryland diversity, function, and interdependence.
Research team: Efrat Sheffer (HUJI; PI), Eli Argaman (ARO), Yair Mau (HUJI), Tamir Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science), José Grünzweig (HUJI), Niv De Malach, David Zeevy (Weizmann Institute of Science), Elli Groner (Dead Sea & Arava Science Center) and Hezi Yizhaq (BGU).
Research Funding: The planning and budgeting committee
Students:
PhD: Mr. Zeev Cohen
Long-term monitoring of planted forests in Israel: the dynamics of pine forests' structure and function as affected by principal environmental variables.
Research team: Yagil Osem (PI), Tarin Paz-Kagan (Co-PI)
Ph.D.: Moshe Vladislav Dubinin
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) to study the management of coniferous forests in Israel: The effects of overstory thinning treatments in mature Pinus halepensis forests on forest structure, function, and dynamics.
Research team: Yagil Osem (PI), Tarin Paz-Kagan (CI)
MSc: Mr. Zeev Cohen
Smart irrigation and fertilization with new plantation of mixed forest on Mount Gilboa
Research team: Prof. Michael Iggy Litaor (PI) and Tarin Paz-Kagan (CI),
MSc: Mr. Gome Shalvi
Using imaging spectroscopy for detecting and mapping soil rehabilitation in a Zin mining area
Research team: Tarin Paz-Kagan and Yaron Ziv
MSc: Mr. Tom Collier
Using advanced earth observation systems to evaluate the impact of land use and climate change on soil erosion risk
Research team: Tarin Paz-Kagan and Ehud Strobach
Ph.D.: Mr. Avrodeep Paul
Unveiling the Matrix of Multilevel Risk and Resilience through AI and 30-Year Linked Data
Research team: Talia M. Schwartz (PI), Avner Ronen,(CI), Yaron Ziv (CI), Tarin Paz-Kagan (ci)
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