GRSS President 2008-2009
Anthony Milne (SM 2004, F 2011, Life Fellow 2012). B.A., (New England); M.A.Hons., (Sydney); Ph.D., (Colorado)} is a Visiting Professor of Geography and Remote Sensing in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He served as the Remote Sensing Science Manager of the Australian Government, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (2003-2010) and was also Co-Director of Horizon Geoscience Consulting Ltd., from 2002 until 2021. He is a member of the IEEE GRS-S AdCom (2002- ); Chair, Membership Committee (2004-2005); Executive Vice President (2006-2007), President of IEEE GRSS (2008-2009) and Director of the GRSS Globalisation Initiative (2009-2016). Since 2016 he has been the Asian-Pacific GRSS Liaison Officer; GRSS representative on the UNGGIM Geospatial Societies and the GRSS Principal on the Group of Earth Observation (GEO) in Geneva and Co-Chairman of the Geo Programme Board (2021-2023) and a Member of the GEO Pacific Island Advisory Board. He also served as Chair of LOC for Sydney IGARSS2001 and Committee Member for IGARSS2013 in Melbourne and IGARSS2025 in Brisbane.
Professor Milne has been a Principal Investigator in international research programs including the NASA SIR-B and SIR-C radar missions, AIRSAR, GeoSAR, (USA), ERS-1 and ERS-2, ENVISAT (ESA), JERS-1, ALOS PALSAR (Japan) and MOMS (Germany) and was Co-Chairman of three NASA AIRSAR Missions to Australia, South East Asia and the Pacific between 1994 and 2000 involving 18 countries. He also served as a member of the Science Team for the Japanese Space Agency’s ALOS Kyoto and Carbon Initiative Research Program and as a Science Advisor to the Council of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
In his previous role as Director of the Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS at the University of New South Wales, he was responsible for leading a team of multi-disciplinary researchers involved in environmental analysis. His research interests lie in radar remote sensing, vegetation assessment, and the mapping of wetlands. Recent research projects include Australian – Papua New Guinea radar topographic mapping and GEO-related forest and carbon assessment programs; a series of projects for the NSW Government related to investigating the usefulness of radar to map flood patterns, vegetation conditions, and the distribution of coastal and in-land riverine wetlands.
Anthony Milne, AO, (SM 2004, F 2011, Life Fellow 2012), is a Visiting Professor of Geography and Remote Sensing in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests lie in SAR remote sensing, vegetation assessment, and the mapping of wetlands.
He is a Past President of IEEE GRSS (2008-2009); Director of the GRSS Globalisation Initiative (2009-2016); the Asian-Pacific GRSS Liaison; GRSS representative on the UNGGIM Geospatial Societies, and the GRSS Principal on the Group of Earth Observation (GEO) in Geneva and Co-Chairman of the Geo Programme Board (2021-2023).
In 2012 he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO)for his services to science and education in Australia and Asia. (Date: Jan., 2024)
