Research Associate in Imaging Spectroscopy and Quantitative Remote Sensing of Vegetation
MSc. in Nature and Environmental Protection (1998, Palacky University, Olomouc Czech Republic) and PhD. in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation (2006, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Spatial Information Science Building |
| Room Reference | 123 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 7614 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7628 |
| Zbynek.Malenovsky@utas.edu.au |
In 2001 I was awarded by the Dutch Royal NUFFIC scholarship (Huygens Programme, The Netherlands) stared my study at Wageningen University, where I was from 2002-2006 enrolled as the external PhD. student (http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/). Simultaneously, between 2001-2007 I was working as a researcher at the Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, http://www.czechglobe.cz/). In 2004 I stayed for few months at the Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO Laboratory, Toulouse, France, http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/) as a visiting researcher. Between 2005 and 2007 I was acting as the scientific manager of the European Space Agency (ESA) PECS project: ‘Spectral-spatial scaling the GMES Sentinel-2 mission’ (€220K), and leader of the research group for Remote Sensing of Vegetation Processes. In 2007 I accepted PostDoc position at the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) established within the FP6 EC project: ‘ECOCHANGE’ (http://www.ecochange-project.eu/), and from spring 2009 I worked as Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Laboratories (University of Zürich, Switzerland). In 2010 I became principal investigator of the ESA project: ’Assessing Product Requirements for the Scientific Exploitation of the Sentinel Missions’ (SEN4SCI, http://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/sen4sci/, €200K). In January 2012 I started my work at the University of Tasmania (Australia) as Research Associate in research group TerraLuma (http://www.terraluma.net/). Recently (in July 2012) I joined a new ESA project: ‘FLEX/Sentinel-3 Tandem Mission Photosynthesis Study’.
The center point of my research interests is an interaction of light (optical wavelengths) with vegetation, staring from leaf up to canopy level. I am using ground-based, airborne, but also satellite imaging spectroscopy methods and physical based radiative transfer modelling to investigate quantitative biochemical and biophysical parameters of plants (e.g. content of the photosynthetically active pigments – chlorophylls) that indicate actual state of the plant eco-physiological processes (incl. stress reactions) related to the ecosystem functions under the global climate change. At UTAS I am mainly involved in the project investigating physiological responses of Antarctic mosses on fast changing environmental conditions using optical sensors on-board of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Until today I co-authored more than 50 scientific communications of which 15 appeared in the peer-reviewed impacted scientific journals. My complete publishing record is available at ResearchGate (http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zbynek_Malenovsky/) or at the ResearchID web-portal (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-7819-2011).
During my PostDoc at Wageningen University I have prepared a half of the Capita-Selecta MSc. course in Geo-Information Science entitled: ‘Optical Remote Sensing in Ecological modelling’. In 2009-2011 was teaching imaging spectroscopy of vegetation within several remote sensing MSc. courses at the University of Zürich and also at several Czech Universities as an external lecturer. Here at UTAS I am occasionally giving lectures on optical remote sensing. Two PhD and four MSc students have successfully defended their thesis under my supervision. Recently I am co-supervising three more PhD and one MSc candidates.