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Graciela Metternicht is a Belgian researcher on environmental geography ( geospatial technologies and their application in environmental management and policy).

Early life and education

Metternicht is originally from Belgium. She has a Bachelor of Science and a PhD in Physical Geography from University of Ghent (Belgium). ^[1]

Career and impact

Currently Metternicht is the Dean of Science at Western Sydney University and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography @Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.

She was previously a Professor of Environmental Geography in the Environmental Management Programme of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales. ^[2]

She was Regional Coordinator of Early Warning and Assessment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Previous academic appointments include Head of Discipline and Professor of Geospatial Systems and Environmental Management at the School of Natural and Built Environments of the University of South Australia and Professor of Spatial Sciences at the Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology. ^[3]

Awards and honors

Metternicht has produced international outstanding research on the use of spatial information for land degradation and agriculture-related applications. ^{[4] [5] [6]} She got grants from the Australian Research Council and the Australia and New Zealand Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. ^[7] Because of her notable career, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the International Cartographic Association. ^[8]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Graciela Metternicht (Q56802217).

• Metternicht, G. I., & Zinck, J. A. (2003). Remote sensing of soil salinity: potentials and constraints Remote sensing of Environment, 85(1), 1-20.
• Robinson, T. P., & Metternicht, G. (2006). Testing the performance of spatial interpolation techniques for mapping soil properties Computers and electronics in agriculture, 50(2), 97-108.
• Metternicht, G., Hurni, L., & Gogu, R. (2005). Remote sensing of landslides: An analysis of the potential contribution to geo-spatial systems for hazard assessment in mountainous environments. Remote sensing of Environment, 98(2-3), 284–303.

References

External links

• Graciela Metternicht at University of New South Wales
• Graciela Metternicht publications indexed by Google Scholar