Dr. Simona Niculescu
PhD Doctor in Geography
Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM)
Laboratoire LETG-Brest, Géomer, UMR 6554 CNRS
IUEM • Université de Bretagne Occidentale
rue Dumont d’Urville
F-29280 Plouzané, France.
simona.niculescu[at]univ-brest.fr
www.iuem.univ‐brest.fr
Background
Simona Niculescu studied Geography and Geology at “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi (Romania) to continue her doctoral studies at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Fontenay Saint-Cloud). She defended her doctoral thesis in Geography and Land management at Sorbonne in 2002 to continue her post-doctoral studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) of Paris in a lab of Mathematics applied to Social Sciences (Geography).
She is a membre of LETG-Géomer UMR 6554 CNRS lab within the European Institute for Marine Studies. She coordinated different programs on the flood risk and vulnerability of the Danube delta: ALOS / ADEN project of European Space Agency, ECO-NET project (funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), EGIDE program, Brancusi project, PAI programme and she participated to other European research program (SPICOSA-Science and Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment, 6th PCRD «global change and ecosystems», ENCORA-project of the 6th PCRD aiming at the implementation of an European network made of 13 national networks connected among them by 10 thematic networks approaching different topics of GIZC (Integrated management of coastal zones).
The researcher’s current research topic deals with the wetland coastal areas, among which the deltas. She primarily focuses her attention on the risk vulnerability and land cover (vegetation) in link with the ecosystem services of these spaces. From a methodological perspective, she focus especially on the new methodologies for the processing of satellite images (Support Vector Machine, object oriented classification, neural classification) and on the exploitation possibilities of the new satellite images (optical and radar) generated by the last European (Envisat, Proba, TerraSarX, Cosmo-Skymed, Sentinel-1, etc.), Japanese (Alos) and Canadian (RADARSAT-2).
Activities in education
Assistant Professor Simona Niculescu supervises Master students (20) and Phd (2) lectures in wetland ant remote sensing and environmental management. She was invited as a Keynote Speaker: Remote sensing in the service of natural risks management, Asia ITS – ISLAND, 2-4 février 2007, Hanoï (Vietnam); L’algorithme Support Vector Machine (SVM) dans le traitement d’image radar. Application à l’étude des inondations en milieu deltaïque, Institut de Géographie, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), 3-4 décembre 2008, Suisse; Synergy between optical and radar ALOS images for the recognition of vegetation in coastal wetlands, 20-22 septembre 2010, Agence Spatiale Roumaine, Bucarest; Risk of flooding in coastal areas, December 2012, International Master Water, Environment, Oceanography (WEO) University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH), Vietnam.
Selected publications
- Niculescu S., Lardeux C., Frison J.L., Rudant J.P., Approche Sociale et Radar de la Gestion du Risque d’Inondation dans le delta du Danube, Houille Blanche, Revue Internationale de l’eau, SHF, Paris, n° 2, 2010, Paris.
- Niculescu S., Lardeux C., Güttler Nor F., Rudant J.P., Multisensor systems and flood risk management. Application to the Danube Delta using radar and hyperspectral imagery, Remote Sensing, vol. 9, n°3-4, 2010.
- Güttler F., Niculescu S., Gohin F., Turbidity retrieval and monitoring of Danube Delta waters using multi-sensor optical remote sensing data: An integrated view from the delta plain lakes to the western–northwestern Black Sea coastal zone, Remote Sensing of Environment, 132 (2013), 86–101.
- Niculescu S., Philippe Fournier, Alexandru Badea, Area sampling and information systems applied to land-cover and land-use. Case study: post-communist Romania, 2014, n° 205, Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection.
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Niculescu S., Lardeux C., Hanganu J., Mercier G., David L., Change Detection of Floodable in Danube delta by Radar Images, 2015, Natural Hazards (accepted).
