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School of Earth, Society & Environment Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science

Raechel Portelli

Teaching Assistant Professor

Education

  • 2014, PhD, Pennsylvania State University - Geography "Looking back to inform the future: The role of cognition in forest disturbance characterization from remote sensing imagery"
  • 2010, MS, University of Idaho - Physical Geography "Classification of Mixed-Conifer Forest Stands using SPOT-5 Imagery"
  • 2009, BS, University of Idaho - Physical Geography
  • 2009, BEnvs, University of Idaho - Environmental Science  (Senior thesis: "IKONOS Imagery Analysis for Shoreline Change Detection at Sand Point, Michigan")

Highlighted Publications

My research intersects disciplines concerned with verticality, aerial photography, notions of expertise and knowledge production, and creative geography. I teach across quantitative geographic methods and have advise students on topics including sentiment analysis, object-based image analysis, and a variety of geostatistical methods and applications. My training and background across the broad spectrum of geographic areas has led me to publish a random collection of work, the following are related to vertical viewing and expertise.

  • 2022 Portelli, R.A. and Pope, P. Remote Sensing and Human Factors Research: A Review, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Vol. 88 Issue 1 Pages 55-64
  • 2020 Portelli, R.A. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Re-appreciating the dynamic relationship between humans, machines, and landscape images. Landscape Ecology, 35(4), 815-822
  • 2018 White, R. A., Coltekin, A., Hoffman, R. eds. Remote Sensing and Cognition: Human Factors of Image Interpretation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  • 2015 Portelli, R.A. and MacEachren, A. Cognitive Themes Emerging from Air Photo Interpretation Texts Published to 1960. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information  Vol. 4 Issue 2 Pages 551-571
  • 2013 Bianchetti, R.A. Considering Visual Perception and Cognition in the Analysis of Remotely Sensed Images. Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Doctoral Colloquium. Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
School of Earth, Society & Environment Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science

Natural History Building, Second Floor

1301 W. Green St., MC-150

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1880

Email: geography@illinois.edu

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