Dr. Abd-Elrahman is an Associate Professor of Geomatics and the Geomatics Program Advisor at the University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. He received his BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Digital Mapping from Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt. He acquired his PhD from the University of Florida in Civil Engineering-Geomatics Concentration with a minor in Computer Engineering. He worked as a Visiting Research Engineer at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Central Florida and as an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University (Egypt). Dr. Abd-Elrahman has more than 30 years of academic and professional experience in the remote sensing and geospatial analysis fields.
Dr. Abd-Elrahman’s experience and research utilize remote sensing imagery and spatial analysis to support natural resource management and precision agriculture applications. He supervised many projects involving multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR datasets. His most recent interest is in utilizing small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) imagery for wetland classification and invasive plant mapping through machine and deep learning techniques, as well as using lidar for characterizing coastal vegetation. Dr. Abd-Elrahman received funding to support his research from several federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the US Department of Agriculture.
He served as the workshop program coordinator of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2016-2018). He also served as the coordinator of the ASPRS Young Professional Committee (2012-2013) and a member of the sUAS certification committee (2017-2019). Dr. Abd-Elrahman is a recipient of the ASPRS presidential citation award, the 2022 North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teaching Scholar Award, and the University of Florida’s professorship award. He is a member of the ASPRS, International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), and IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society.