Scholar
Ali J. Ghandour
Google Scholar ID: 1XOpq7oAAAAJ
National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Citations & Impact
Citations
387
H-index
11
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Over 40 publications
- Led multiple geospatial AI projects, including:
- — First comprehensive Lebanese Building Footprints map generated autonomously using deep learning
- — Building type classification and damage assessment using very high-resolution satellite imagery
- — Sci-Net: a scale-invariant model for building detection from aerial images
- — Solar Potential Map for Lebanon based on multi-class building segmentation
- — Lebanese Road Crashes Platform (LRCP)
- — WAVE1609 Tool: modeling and simulation of WAVE 1609.4-based multi-channel VANETs
- Selected publications:
- — 'Influence of Snow Cover on Water Capacity in the Qaraaoun Reservoir, Lebanon' (2021, Arabian Journal of Geosciences)
- — 'Analyzing factors associated with fatal road crashes: A machine learning approach' (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Background
- Associate Researcher at the Lebanese National Center for Remote Sensing (CNRS)
- Founded the GEOspatial Artificial Intelligence (GEOAI) research group
- Research focuses on AI-assisted mapping across urban analytics, transportation, waterbody monitoring, and crop-yield estimation
- Develops deep learning-based tools for automated urban feature extraction and multi-source crowdsourced data integration
- His models and data analyses support humanitarian response and inform urban policy for social good
- Previously contributed to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), vehicular cognitive networks, and the IEEE P1609 standard Working Group
