page_title: Seyed Kazem Alavipanah
section_title: Scientific career
hierarchical_section_title: Seyed Kazem Alavipanah / Scientific career
caption_attribution_description: English: Seyed Kazem Alavipanah
context_page_description: Seyed Kazem Alavipanah is a professor of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System at University of Tehran, and current Head of Department of Remote Sensing and GIS of University of Tehran.
context_section_description: Currently, he is a member of a number international scientific association, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and an elect member of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), in charge of preparing World Soil Report and World Soil Charter (2013-2015). He has been endeavoring on a program called ‘Heat as an Indicator of World Intelligence’ and trying to patent it as a theory.
  He has received many international awards for his projects, papers, and contribution to RS Conferences. In 2004, he was selected as the Superior Researcher of University of Tehran; in addition, he was the Select Professor of University of Tehran in 2005 and 2015. He attained Allameh Tabatabai Award from the Iran National Elites Foundation in 2014.
  He has published more than 190 papers in noted international journals and conferences. Additionally, he has authored and published the following books: Application of Remote Sensing in the Earth Sciences, Information Technology in the Earth Sciences, Fundamentals of Modern Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, and Research Methodology in Remote Sensing. His book Thermal Remote Sensing was selected as Superior Academic Textbook and commended by Iran government; this book was also among University of Tehran's 80 Treasure Books in 2015.
caption: 21st World Congress of Soil Science-12 – 17 August 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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