Israel

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

הטכניון - מכון טכנולוגי לישראל

Haifa, Israel

Technion offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Mapping and Geo-Information. Graduate degrees offered include:

Master of Science in Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering
Master of Engineering in Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering
PhD – Doctor of Philosophy Technion also offers the masters degree in urban and regional planning with thesis and non-thesis options. More information for prospective international students can be found here.

Professors:

Sagi Dalyot: VGI, participatory mapping, GIS, mapping and metadata standard, location-based service, spatial data integration;
Gilad Even-Tzur: geodesy, GNSS, geodynamics;
Sagi Filin: laser-scanning, image processing, GIS;
Jack Haddad: traffic flow, transportation network;
Fadi Kizel: remote sensing data and algorithm;
Yoram Shiftan: transportation system, travel behavior, activity-based modeling;
Maxim Shoshany: remote sensing, spatial dynamics, GIS, landscape ecology;
Tomer Toledo: driver behavior, traffic simulation, intelligent traffic systems, transmission networks.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

8האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים

Jerusalem, Israel

Unit: Department of Geography

There is a 1-year English-taught master of arts degree program for international students in Smart Cities and Urban Informatics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This program is for social science students who want to acquire a broad-based understanding of contemporary urban development utilizing state of the art techniques in spatial analysis. No prior knowledge of GIS, remote sensing or spatial information systems is assumed.

Tel Aviv University

אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Tel Aviv, Israel

Unit: Department of Geography.

The research fields in the geography department at Tel Aviv University include city, environment and planning, geoinformatics, and climate and water resource. The department offers B.A., M.A. and PhD. programs and a special program for outstanding students, which allows them to take an active role in our research laboratories.

Professors:

Dror Avisar: industrial and hospital wastewater, industrial fish ponds, effluent irrigated fields, river streams and groundwater;
Eyal Ben-Dor: hyperspectral remote sensing, soil spectroscopy;
Itzhak Benenson: geosimulation and spatial analysis of urban and regional phenomena, spatial big data analysis;
Alexandra Chudnovsky: monitoring the urban air quality using combined, passive and active remote sensing means;
Tova Fenster: just and sustainable cities, urban geography, arts in urban planning;
Moshe Givoni: mobility and transportation;
Revital Hatuka: city design in digital age, city regeneration, vision and the future city;
Itzhak Omer: urban geography, urban morphology, urban dynamics, spatial behavior and cognition;
Hadas Saaroni: synoptic climatology, regional climatology, climate change, urban climatology, applied climatology.

Ben-Gurion University

אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב

Eilat, Israel

Unit: Department of Geography and Environmental Development

The Ben-Gurion University operates research projects in urban studies, geoinformatics and environmental studies. It grants MA and PhD degrees.

Professors:

Eran Ben-Elia: behavioral economics, serious gaming, agent-based simulation models, big data analytics, VR;
Dan Blumberg: environmental remote sensing, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, aeolian geomorphology, anomaly detection, target acquisition;
Itai Kloog: GIS, geostatistics, satellite-based exposure model development;
Tal Svoray: water erosion, soil, agriculture, climate, ecosystem.
Meidad Kisinger: urban sustainability, environmental policies
Evyatar Erell: water-sensitive urban design, human thermal comfort, visual comfort in buildings, modeling the urban micro-cliamte, urban vegetation;
Oren Yiftachel: critical geographies, land regimes, planning theory, social justice and space;
Nurit Alfasi: planning process, community and housing, community areas.