Rate My Professor Michael Chang

Dr Michael Chang is a senior lecturer in Spatial Information Science and Program Director of the Spatial Information Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at Macquarie University, a position he has held since 2011. His research specializations encompass vegetation and land cover/land use monitoring, change detection, and 3D modelling utilizing earth observation data and geographic information systems (GIS). Chang has actively contributed to multi-disciplinary projects addressing biodiversity conservation, wetland monitoring, natural disaster mitigations such as bushfires, floods, and seismic deformation, public transport planning, and the geographical mapping of multilingualism through spatial analyses and modelling. He is also affiliated with the Advanced Drone Systems Research Centre.

Chang's academic impact is reflected in his influential publications, including "Mine subsidence monitoring using multi-source satellite SAR images" (Ge, L., Chang, H.C., Rizos, C., 2007, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing; 217 citations), "Mapping accumulated mine subsidence using small stack of SAR differential interferograms in the Southern coalfield of New South Wales, Australia" (Ng, A.H.-M. et al., 2010, Engineering Geology; 154 citations), "Deformation mapping in three dimensions for underground mining using InSAR–Southern highland coalfield in New South Wales, Australia" (Ng, A.H.-M. et al., 2011, International Journal of Remote Sensing; 114 citations), "Hot and bothered? Associations between temperature and crime in Australia" (Stevens, H.R. et al., 2019, International Journal of Biometeorology; 82 citations), and recent works like "Image texture analysis enhances classification of fire extent and severity using Sentinel 1 and 2 satellite imagery" (Gibson, R.K. et al., 2023, Remote Sensing; 19 citations). In recognition of his contributions, he has received the 2017 BHERT Award for Outstanding Collaboration for National (non-economic) Benefit, the Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Excellence in Research (2017), the Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence (2019), and was Highly Commended in the Macquarie University Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Research (2017).