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Global Wildfire Collective

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Dr. Saeedeh Eskandari

 

Associate Professor at the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR)

 

Dr. Saeedeh Eskandari is a project manager in the Forest Research Division of RIFR. Her research focuses on application of remote sensing and GIS in forest management and conservation, natural hazards assessment, forest fire prediction, and effects of climate change on forest fire regimes. Her research is mainly focused on modeling and management in arid, semi-arid and temperate regions such as Iran and Turkey.

Dr. Eskandari presented ‘a pattern for forest fire potential and spread in Iran using RS and GIS technologies’ for her Ph.D. thesis (2014) which was selected as the superior thesis in the field of environment in Iran (2015). She was a visiting researcher at University of Alcala in Spain (2013) and worked on ‘fire danger assessment in Iran based on geospatial information’.

Dr. Eskandari was on research staff at University of Vigo in Spain (2024-2025) and worked on ‘identification of Acacia sp. (as an invasive plant species) in northern forests of Spain in different time series using remote sensing data’. Her book entitled ‘Fire in Iranian Forests’ was published by RIFR in 2025. She also served as a guest editor of ‘Frontiers in Remote Sensing’ journal for the Special Issue: ‘Advancements in Fire Management through Remote Sensing Technologies’ from 2024 to 2025.

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