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Research

Research interests

Environmental technology development:

  • Digital Image Analysis, high-performance computing
  • Remote sensing technologies and applications
  • Spatial analysis and visualisation
  • Geospatial technologies applications to human-environment-interaction and disaster management

Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Asia:

  • Ecology and conservation of Asian megafauna (elephants, rhinos, and tapirs)
  • Plant-animal interactions — especially frugivory and seed dispersal
  • Defaunation and its consequences for ecosystem processes
  • Conservation conflicts (e.g. human-elephant conflict
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Current projects

  • Development of real-time tsunami damage detection technology for expeditious disaster response of Japan and ASEAN countries
  • Disaster recovery monitoring and assessment– remote sensing multi-scale approach

MEME: Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants. MEME’s ongoing sub-projects are:

  • Monitoring the effectiveness of translocations as a management and conservation tool for Asian elephants in peninsular Malaysia
  • Development and application of molecular genetic tools for the management and conservation of elephants in Peninsular Malaysia
  • Development of Adaptive Management Strategies for Human-Elephant Conflict across Asia
  • Elephant ghosts in Singapore – the unrealised role of megafauna in Singapore
 

 

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