Dr. Anita Simic Milas

Education & Professional Experience

PhD    University of Toronto 2005 - 2009
MSc    University of Toronto 2000 - 2002
HBSc   University of Toronto 1994 - 1998

• Bowling Green State University Ohio - Assistant/Associate Professor 2013 - 2024
  
• University of Toronto - Visiting Professor 2021
• University of Victoria Canada - Limited Term Senior Instructor 2012 - 2013
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) - France - Postdoctoral Fellow 2010 - 2012
• University of Toronto - Research Associate 2005 - Sessional Instructor 2005 - 2010
• Ryerson University Canada - Sessional Instructor 2005-2017
• Wuhan University China - Sessional Instructor 2009
• Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Canada (CCRS) - Research Scientist 2002-2005
• O’Connor Associates Environmental Inc., Canada - Geoscientist 1997 - 2000

Professional Interests

REMOTE SENSING and GIS applications for:
Vegetation and soil science
Hydrology and water resources
Water quality
Machine Learning 
Data integration and fusion

Recent Professional Achievements

Founder / Director 
SPatial LITeracy - SPLIT Remote Sensing Professional School (International)
SPatial LITeracy - SPLIT Geoscience Program (US)

Editor 
International Journal of Remote Sensing / Drones section

Current BGSU Courses

Graduate courses 
Remote Sensing of Environment
Applied Remote Sensing 

Undergraduate courses 
Remote Sensing of Environment
Quantitative Methods
Geographic Information Science 
Introduction to Environmental Studies 

Employers of students supervised by Prof. Simic Milas:

Satelytics, Perrysburg
The Ohio EPA, Columbus
University of Michigan
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Leidos, North Carolina
ORNL, Department of Energy, Tennessee
University of Calgary, Canada
Equifax, St. Louis
BGSU, Bowling Green, OH
Conservation Legacy, Pennsylvania
Ohio State University
Ceres Imaging, California
Woolpert, Dayton
U.S. Geological Survey, Kentucky
Bayer – Monsanto, Missouri

Recent and Current Research Grants

NSF GEOPAths
NOAA / ODNR / University of Toledo USA
America View / USGS USA
Bowling Green State University OHIO
World Bank / Ministry of Science and Education Croatia
European Space Agency / Canada Space Agency

Recent Publications

ALAM MMT, SIMIC MILAS A, GASPAROVIC M, OSEI HP. 2024. Retrieval of crop canopy chlorophyll: Machine learning vs. Radiative transfer model. Remote Sensing, 16(12), 2058; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16122058.

ISLAM MK, SIMIC MILAS A, ABEYSINGHE T, TIAN Q. 2023. Integrating UAV-derived information and WorldView-3 imagery for mapping wetland plants in the Old Woman Creek Estuary, USA. Remote Sensing, 15(4), 1090; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15041090. 

SENEVIRATHNE CK, SIMIC MILAS A, LIU G, YACOBUCCI MM. 2022. Effects of increasing C4-crop cover and stomatal conductance on evapotranspiration: Simulations for a Lake Erie watershed. Remote Sensing, 14, 8. 1914; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14081914.

LARSON MD, SIMIC MILAS A, VINCENT RK, EVANS JE. 2021. Landsat 8 monitoring of multi-depth suspended sediment concentration in Lake Erie's Maumee River using machine learning. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 21, 11. 4064-4086.

ZHOU D, SIMIC MILAS A, YU J, ZHU L, CHEN B, MUHETAER N. 2020. Integrating RELAX with PS-InSAR technique to improve identification of persistent scatterers for land subsidence monitoring. Remote Sensing, 12, 2730; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12172730.

JURJEVIC L, GASPAROVIC M, SIMIC MILAS A, BALENOVIC I. 2020. Impact of UAS Image Orientation on Accuracy of Forest Inventory Attributes. Remote Sensing, 12, 404, doi:10.3390/rs12030404; https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/3/404.

CROFT H, CHEN JM, WANG R, MO G, LUO S, LUO X, HE L, GONSAMO A, ARABIAN J, ZHANG Y, SIMIC MILAS A, et al. 2020. The global distribution of leaf chlorophyll content. Remote Sensing of Environment, 236, 111479.

SIMIC MILAS A, WARNER TA, YOUNAN NH, BALENOVIC I, LARSON MD. 2019. Preface for the spatial issue of IJRS Drones section in conjunction with the 6^th UAS4Enviro conference. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40 (24); https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1658409.

ABEYSINGHE T, SIMIC MILAS A, AREND K, HOHMAN B, REIL P, GREGORY A, VAZQUEZ-ORTEGA A. 2019. Mapping invasive Phragmites australis in the Old Woman Creek Estuary using UAV remote sensing and machine learning classifiers. Remote Sensing, 11 (11); https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111380.

BALENOVIC I, JURJEVIC L, SIMIC MILAS A, GASPAROVIC M, IVANKOVIC D, SELETKOVIC A. 2019. Testing the applicability of the official Croatian DTM for normalization of UAV-based DSMs and plot-level tree height estimations in lowland forest. Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 40 (1), 163-174.

SIMIC MILAS A, CRACKNELL AP, and WARNER TA. 2018. Drones-the third generation source of remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39(21):7125-7137. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1523832.

RUPASINGHE PA, SIMIC MILAS A, AREND K, SIMONSON MA, MAYER C, MACKEY SC. 2018. Classification of shoreline vegetation in the Western Basin of Lake Erie using airborne hyperspectral imager HSI2, Pleiades and UAV data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1539267.

SIMIC MILAS A. 2018. Paradigm Shift in Education: Spatial Literacy. PE&RS, The American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing.