Biography
A highly motivated and hard-working individual, who has achieving excellent grades and recommendations along all my studying period, I had PhD under professional supervision at civil engineering department / University of Bristol / United Kingdom. I have an experience of 15 years in Academic Research, field practical applications, project supervision/management and teaching. The nature of our academic/practical work such as project’s supervision, workshops/conferences preparation and participations, research/project seminars and presentations extremely helped me to provided solid and essential back up to key positions and projects, and in turn proved to be a great opportunity to work as part of a team as well as independently, with a focus on delivering quality administrative support on a continuous basis.
In person, I am a conscientious person who works hard and pays attention to detail. I'm flexible, quick to pick up new skills and eager to learn from others.
Research Interest
Remote sensing and GIS for climate change studies, laser scanning error assessment, satellite images atmospheric correction, change detection
Publications
1- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., Han, and Rico-Ramirez, M.A (2010), Near-surface soil moisture estimation using AMSR-E brightness temperature, International Association of Hydrological Sciences IAHS, based on the Remote Sensing Hydrology Conference that hold on September 2010 in Wyoming, USA.
2- AL-Shrafany, D.M.S., Rico- Ramirez, M.A. and Han, D. (2013), Comparative assessment of soil moisture estimation from Land Surface Model and satellite remote sending based on catchment water balance,
3- Al-Shrafany, D.M. S., Rico- Ramirez, M.A. and Han, D. (2011), Calibration of roughness parameters using rainfall-runoff water balance for satellite soil moisture retrieval, Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 17 (6), 704-717.
4- Srivastava, P.K., Han, D., Rico- Ramirez, M.A., Al-Shrafany, D.M.S and Islam, T. (2013), Data fusion techniques for improving soil moisture deficit using SMOS satellite and WRF-NOAH Land surface model, Water resource Management, 27 (15), 5069- 5087.Meteorological Applications, 21 (3), 521-534.
5- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., Han, D and Rico-Ramirez, M.A., (2015) Soil moisture data fusion of satellite remote sensing and land surface model for hydrological applications, Journal of Hydrological Processes.
6- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., Mala, B. A. and Sadeq, H. A. (2019) Integration of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Digital Close- Range Photogrammetry for Heritage Documentation, ZANCO Journal of Pure Applied Sciences, (168- 175).
7- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., Abdullah, S. H. and Sadeq, H. A. (2020) The use of pixelbased algorithm for automatic change detection of 3D Building from Aerial and Satellite Imagery: Erbil city as a case study, ZANCO Journal of Pure Applied Sciences, (24- 38).
8- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., (2021) Extracting Environmental Phenology Parameters from Satellite Time Series Using TIMESAT and GIS, Anbar Journal of Engineering Sciences, 9(2), 256 - 265.
9- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S., (2021) Soil Moisture retrieval from AMSR-E, Agriculture Water Management (Book Chapter), San Diego, USA, (cha. 13, p.p.241 - 277).
10- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S. and Jabar, S. (2022) IHS Image Fusion based on Gray wolf Optimizer (GWO), Anbar Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol.13. No.1, pp. (65-75).
11- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S. and Mala, B. A. (2023) The Influence of the incident angle variation on the accuracy of TLS point cloud based on surface reflectivity and roughness, International Journal of Masonry research and Innovation, (accepted for Publication).
12- Al-Shrafany, D.M.S. and Mala, B. A. (2023) The effect of material and colour differentiation on the quality and accuracy of TLS single point cloud at different incident angle, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, (under reviewing).
13- IHS image fusion based on Gray Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Anbar Journal of Engineering sciences, vol. 13.No.1, pp.(65-75).
Teaching
1- Remote sensing (undergrad and postgrad)
2- GIS (postgrad)
3- Image Processing (undergrad)
4- Digital Mapping (undergrad)