The Future of Education
Kithsiri Perera
Institution: School of Surveying and Build Environment, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences, University of Southern Queensland
Address: West Street, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350 Australia
Postal Code: 4350
Country: Australia
Kithsiri Perera was born in Sri Lanka and obtained Geography special degree from the Univerisity of Colombo in 1985. After serving four years in the university academia, he enrolled at Chiba University, Japan, in 1989 and completed MEng and DEng in remote sensing and GIS. For the Doctoral thesis, Kithsiri produced the 1st satellite image mosaic (Landsat MSS) of Sri Lanka at the university level to analyse with other GIS data. After graduation, he worked for 12 years in Tokyo at the world's largest private weather forecasting company.
Kithsiri migrated to Australia, joined UniSQ in 2008, first worked in the School of Engineering, and now in the School of Surveying and Build Environment.
His teaching areas include GIS, Remote sensing, and Web-based GIS, and his primary research interests are in applying GIS and remote sensing for environmental management, disaster monitoring and mapping, land cover/land use mapping, and spatial data visualisation. Since 2005 he has been running a website (www.geoguardian.com) to publish environmental content and recently developed (2023) and running an App (seesatview) to publish satellite image-based contents to present near-real-time data about natural disasters and environmental incidents to deliver to mobile platforms.
Kithsiri migrated to Australia, joined UniSQ in 2008, first worked in the School of Engineering, and now in the School of Surveying and Build Environment.
His teaching areas include GIS, Remote sensing, and Web-based GIS, and his primary research interests are in applying GIS and remote sensing for environmental management, disaster monitoring and mapping, land cover/land use mapping, and spatial data visualisation. Since 2005 he has been running a website (www.geoguardian.com) to publish environmental content and recently developed (2023) and running an App (seesatview) to publish satellite image-based contents to present near-real-time data about natural disasters and environmental incidents to deliver to mobile platforms.
