Ali Mohammadzadeh

Professor (Tenured) | Head of LiDAR Laboratory
No. 1346, Vali-Asr Street, Mirdamad Crossing, Remote Sensing Dept, Geomatics Eng. Faculty, K.N.Toosi University of Tech., Tehran - Iran Postal Code: 1996715433 | Box: 158754416 a_mohammadzadeh@kntu.ac.ir Tel: (+98 21) 88888445 Fax: (+98 21) 88786213 Cell: (+98) 9124752961
Scopus ID: 16070064500 H-index: 29 KNTU Profile

Professional Experience (K.N.Toosi University)

2024–Current: Professor in Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
2014–Current: Head of LiDAR Laboratory
2018–2022: Faculty Vice-Dean in Research & IT
2015–2023: Associate Professor
2014–2018: Head of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Department
2010–2014: Assistant Professor
2003–2009: Research and Teaching Assistant

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Complete 77)

1. Marjani, M., Mahdianpari, M., Khankeshizadeh, S. E., Tahermanesh, S., Mohsenifar, A., and Mohammadzadeh, A., 2026, Three Decades of GeoAI for Wildfire Science: A Systematic and Meta-Analysis Review, Remote Sensing, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1874.
2. Khankeshizadeh, S. E., Mohammadzadeh, A., and Jamali, S., 2026, ViTConvKAN: a hybrid transformer–KAN modeling for post-earthquake building damage mapping using VHR imagery, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. Jan, No. 41.
3. Khankeshizadeh, S. E., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, A., and Jamali, S., 2026, A Dual-Modal Mixture-of-Experts Attention U-Net (DMoE-AttU-Net) for Change Detection Using Heterogeneous Optical and SAR Remote Sensing Images, Remote Sensing, Vol. 18, No. 10, 1508.
4. Tahermanesh, S., Jamali, A., Moghimi, A., Mohsenifar, A., Khankeshizadeh, E., and Mohammadzadeh, A., 2026, CA-MTransUNet: Cloud-Aware Mixture-of-Experts Linear Transformer U-Net for forest burned area (FBA) mapping using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images, Big Earth Data, pp. 1-30.
5. Khankeshizadeh, E., Mohammadzadeh, A., and Jamali, S., 2025, EDB-HSTEU-Net: Earthquake-damaged building detection using a novel hybrid swin transformer efficient U-Net (HSTEU-Net) and transfer learning techniques from post-event VHR remote sensing data, Journal of Building Engineering, Vol. 108, 112889.
6. Ghorbanian, A., Ghorbanian, A., Ahmadi, S. A., Mohammadzadeh, A., and Naboureh, A., 2025, Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Mangrove Ecosystem Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, IEEE JSTARS.
7. Moghimi, A., Celik, T., Mohammadzadeh, A., Pirasteh, S., and Li, J., 2025, Optimizing Relative Radiometric Normalization..., IEEE GRSL, Vol. 22, pp. 1-5, 5001305, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2025.3562276.
8. Ghorbanian, A., Zaghian, S., Ahmadi, S.A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2025, Book Chapter 16 - Time series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery... Elsevier, Pages 303-319.
9. Khankeshizadeh, E., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2025, (duplicate of #5) EDB-HSTEU-Net... Journal of Building Engineering, Vol. 108.
10. Mohsenifar, A.; Mohammadzadeh, A.; Jamali, S., 2025, Unsupervised Rural Flood Mapping from Bi-Temporal Sentinel-1 Images... Remote Sens. 2025, 17, 1024.
11. Khankeshizadeh, E., Mohammadzadeh, A., Arefi, H., et al., 2024, A Novel Weighted Ensemble Transferred U-Net Based Model (WETUM) for Postearthquake Building Damage Assessment, IEEE TGRS, Vol. 62, pp. 1-17.
12. Moghimi, A.; Sadeghi, V.; Mohsenifar, A.; Celik, T.; Mohammadzadeh, A., 2024, LIRRN: Location-Independent Relative Radiometric Normalization, Sensors, Vol. 24, No. 7, 2272.
13. Ahmadi, S.A.; Mohammadzadeh, A.; Yokoya, N.; Ghorbanian, A., 2024, BD-SKUNet: Selective-Kernel UNets for Building Damage Assessment, Remote Sensing, Vol. 16, 182.
14. Takhtkeshha, N., Mohammadzadeh, A., Salehi, B., 2023, A Rapid Self-Supervised Deep-Learning-Based Method for Post-Earthquake Damage Detection Using UAV Data, Remote Sens. Vol. 15, No. 1, 123.
15. Asiyabi, R. M., Ghorbanian, A., Tameh, S. N., Amani, M., Jin, S., and Mohammadzadeh, A., 2023, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Ocean: A Review, IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 16, pp. 9106-9138.
16. Zaghian, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., Ghorbanian, A., Bovolo, F., Niroumand-Jadidi, M., 2023, Enhancing suspended sediment concentration retrieval..., Int. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 44, Issue 18, pp. 5814-5844.
17. Ahmadi, S. A., Ghorbanian, A., Golparvar, F., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2022, Individual tree detection from UAV derived point cloud..., European J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 55, Issue 1, pp. 520-539.
18. Moghimi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Celik, T., Brisco, B., Amani, M., 2022, Automatic Relative Radiometric Normalization..., Remote Sensing 14(8), 1777.
19. Moghimi, A., Celik, T., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2022, Tensor-based keypoint detection and switching regression model..., Int. J. Remote Sensing, 43(11), 3927-3956.
20. Ghorbanian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2022, Linear and Non-Linear Vegetation Trend Analysis throughout Iran Using Two Decades of MODIS NDVI Imagery, Remote Sensing 14(15), 3683.
21. Ghorbanian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., Duan, Z., 2022, Performance Evaluation of Six Gridded Precipitation Products..., Remote Sensing 14(15), 3783.
22. Moghimi, A., Sarmadian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Celik, T., Amani, M., Kusetogullari, H., 2022, Distortion Robust Relative Radiometric Normalization..., IEEE TGRS, vol. 60, 5400820.
23. Ghorbanian, A., Ahmadi, S.A., Amani, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2022, Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Mangrove Mapping..., Water 14(2), 244.
24. Mohsenifar, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Moghimi, A., Salehi, B., 2021, A novel unsupervised forest change detection method..., Int. J. Remote Sensing, 42(24), 9368-9396.
25. Mehravar, S., Amani, M., Moghimi, A., Dadrass Javan, F., Samadzadegan, F., Ghorbanian, A., Stein, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Mirmazloumi, S.M., 2021, Temperature-Vegetation-soil Moisture-Precipitation Drought Index (TVMPDI)..., Advances in Space Research, 68(11), 4573-4593.
26. Najafzadeh, F., Mohammadzadeh, A., Ghorbanian, A., Jamali, S., 2021, Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Surface Urban Heat Island..., Remote Sensing, 13(21), 4469.
27. Ghorbanian, A., Zaghian, S., Asiyabi, R.M., Amani, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Jamali, S., 2021, Mangrove ecosystem mapping using sentinel-1 and sentinel-2..., Remote Sensing, 13(13), 2565.
28. Moghimi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Celik, T., Amani, M., 2021, A Novel Radiometric Control Set Sample Selection Strategy..., IEEE TGRS, 59(3), 2503-2519.
29. Khanbani, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., Janalipour, M., 2021, A novel unsupervised change detection method from remotely sensed imagery..., Applied Geomatics, 13(1), 89-105.
30. Mehravar, S., et al., 2021, TVMPDI (duplicate of 25).
31. Moghimi, A., Celik, T., Mohammadzadeh, A., Kusetogullari, H., 2021, Comparison of Keypoint Detectors and Descriptors for Relative Radiometric Normalization..., IEEE JSTARS, 14, 4063-4073.
32. Moghimi, A., Sarmadian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Celik, T., Amani, M., Kusetogullari, H., 2021, Distortion Robust Relative Radiometric Normalization... (similar to 22).
33. Moghimi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Celik, T., Amani, M., 2020, A Novel Radiometric Control Set Sample Selection Strategy, IEEE TGRS (Early Access).
34. Khanbani, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., Janalipour, M., 2020, A novel unsupervised change detection method..., Applied Geomatics, 1-17.
35. Farahani, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2020, Domain adaptation for unsupervised change detection..., Int. J. Remote Sensing 41(10), 3902-3923.
36. Khanbani, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., Janalipour, M., 2020, Unsupervised change detection of remotely sensed images from rural areas..., Earth Science Informatics, 1-14.
37. Kianejad Tejenaki, S.A., Ebadi, H., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2020, Automatic Road Detection and Extraction From MultiSpectral Images..., J. Geomatics Science and Technology 9(3), 13-27.
38. Amani, M., et al., 2020, Application of Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing Platform..., Remote Sensing 12(21), 3561.
39. Ahmadi, S.A., Ghorbanian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2019, Moving vehicle detection, tracking and traffic parameter estimation..., Int. J. Remote Sensing 40(22), 8379-8394.
40. Kianejad Tejenaki, S.A., Ebadi, H., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2019, A new hierarchical method for automatic road centerline extraction in urban areas using LIDAR data, Advances in Space Research 64(9), 1792-1806.
41. Janalipour, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2019, A novel and automatic framework for producing building damage map using post-event LiDAR data, Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduction 39, 101238.
42. Ghorbanian, A., Sahebi, M.R., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2019, Optimization approach to retrieve soil surface parameters from single-acquisition single-configuration SAR data, Comptes Rendus Geoscience 351(4), 332-339.
43. Janalipour, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2018, Evaluation of effectiveness of three fuzzy systems..., Int. J. Digital Earth, Vol. 11(12), 1241-1268.
44. Ghorbanian, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2018, An unsupervised feature extraction method based on band correlation clustering..., Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 9(10), 982-991.
45. Salehi, M., Maghsoudi, Y., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, Assessment of the potential of H/A/Alpha decomposition..., IEEE TGRS 56(4), 2440-2451.
46. Izadi, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Haghighattalab, A., 2017, A new neuro-fuzzy approach for post-earthquake road damage assessment..., J. Indian Society Remote Sensing, Vol. 45(6), 965-977.
47. Moghimi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Khazai, S., 2017, Integrating thresholding with level set method for unsupervised change detection in multitemporal SAR images, Canadian J. Remote Sensing 43(5), 412-431.
48. Moghimi, A., Khazai, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, An improved fast level set method..., Arabian J. Geosciences, Vol. 10(13), 293.
49. Salehi, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Maghsoudi, Y., 2017, Adaptive speckle filtering for time series of polarimetric SAR Images, IEEE JSTARS, Vol 10(6), 2841-2848.
50. Salehi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, Building roof reconstruction based on residue anomaly analysis..., Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 83(4), 281-291.
51. Janalipour, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, A fuzzy-ga based decision making system for detecting damaged buildings..., Remote Sensing, 9(4), 349.
52. Eslami, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, A novel method for urban land cover mapping..., European J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 50(1), 320-331.
53. Goldarag, Y.J., Mohammadzadeh, A., Ardakani, A.S., 2016, Fire risk assessment using neural network and logistic regression, J. Indian Society Remote Sensing, Vol. 44(6), 885-894.
54. Razin, M.R.G., Voosoghi, B., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2016, Efficiency of artificial neural networks in map of total electron content over Iran, Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, Vol. 51(3), 541-555.
55. Ghassabi, Z., Shanbehzadeh, J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2016, A structure-based region detector for high-resolution retinal fundus image registration, Biomedical signal processing and control, Vol. 23, 52-61.
56. Eslami, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, Developing a spectral-based strategy for urban object detection..., IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 9(5), 1808-1816.
57. Ghassabi, Z., Shanbehzadeh, J., Mohammadzadeh, A., Ostadzadeh, S.S., 2015, Colour retinal fundus image registration..., IET image processing, Vol. 9(10), 889-900.
58. Zarea, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, A novel building and tree detection method from LiDAR data and aerial images, IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 9(5), 1864-1875.
59. Janalipour, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, Building damage detection using object-based image analysis and ANFIS..., IEEE JSTARS, Vol 9(5), 1937-1945.
60. Shams, S.B., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, A novel aerosol load index using MODIS visible bands..., IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 8(3), 1167-1175.
61. Dehnavi, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, New edge adaptive GIHS-BT-SFIM fusion method..., Int. J. Image and Data Fusion 6(1), 65-78.
62. Ghasemi, N., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sahebi, M.R., 2015, Assessment of different topographic correction methods..., Int. J. Digital Earth 6(5), 504-520.
63. Nikfar, M., Zoej, M.J.V., Mohammadzadeh, A., Mokhtarzade, M., Navabi, A., 2012, Optimization of multiresolution segmentation by using a genetic algorithm, J. Applied Remote Sensing 6(1), 063592.
64. Kabolizade, M., Ebadi, H., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2012, Design and implementation of an algorithm for automatic 3D reconstruction of building models using genetic algorithm, Int. J. Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 19, 104-114.
65. Ghasemi, N., Sahebi, M.R., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2012, Biomass estimation of a temperate deciduous forest using wavelet analysis, IEEE TGRS, Vol. 51(2), 765-776.
66. Yavari, S., Zoej, M.J.V., Mohammadzadeh, A., Mokhtarzade, M., 2012, Particle swarm optimization of RFM for georeferencing of satellite images, IEEE GRSL, Vol. 10(1), 135-139.
67. Jahromi, A.B., Zoej, M.J.V., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sadeghian, S., 2011, A novel filtering algorithm for bare-earth extraction from airborne laser scanning data using an artificial neural network, IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 4(4), 836-843.
68. Ardakani, A.S., Zoej, M.J.V., Mohammadzadeh, A., Mansourian, A., 2010, Spatial and temporal analysis of fires detected by MODIS data in northern Iran from 2001 to 2008, IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 4(1), 216-225.
69. Ahmadi, S., Zoej, M.J.V., Ebadi, H., Moghaddam, H.A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2010, Automatic urban building boundary extraction from high resolution aerial images..., Int. J. Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 12(3), 150-157.
70. Haghighattalab, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2010, Détection de dommages et évaluation des dégâts du réseau routier après un séisme..., XYZ, Vol. 124, 41-47.
71. Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., 2010, A self-organizing fuzzy segmentation (SOFS) method for road detection..., Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 76(1), 27-35.
72. Ekhtari, N., Zoej, M.J.V., Sahebi, M.R., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2009, Automatic building extraction from LIDAR digital elevation models and WorldView imagery, J. Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 3(1), 033571.
73. Mohammadzadeh, A., Zoej, M.J.V., Tavakoli, A., 2009, Automatic main road extraction from high resolution satellite imageries..., J. Indian society of remote sensing, Vol. 37(2), 173.
74. Mohammadzadeh, A., Zoej, M.J., Tavakoli, A., 2008, Automatic main road extraction from high resolution satellite imageries by means of self-learning Fuzzy-GA algorithm, J. Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 8(19), 3431-3438.
75. Mansourian, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Mohammadzadeh, A., Farnaghi, M., 2008, Design and implementation of an on-demand feature extraction web service..., Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 32(5), 377-385.
76. Moghtaderi, A., Moore, F., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2007, The application of advanced space-borne thermal emission and reflection (ASTER) radiometer data..., J. Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 30(2), 238-252.
77. Mohammadzadeh, A., Tavakoli, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., 2006, Road extraction based on fuzzy logic and mathematical morphology from pan‐sharpened IKONOS images, The photogrammetric record, Vol. 21(113), 44-60.
*Complete list as originally provided, including all 77 journal articles.

Dissertation & Thesis

Ph.D. Dissertation (2009): "Automatic road extraction from high resolution satellite images using fuzzy logic and mathematical morphology." K.N.Toosi University of Technology.

Selected International Conferences (Full List)

  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Tavakoli, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Tavakoli, A., 2006, Australian RS & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Tavakoli, A., 2006, The 13th Australian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Tavakoli, A., 2007, IEEE/ISPRS Urban Remote Sensing, Paris.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Tavakoli, A., 2007, Photogrammetric Image Analysis (PIA07), Munich.
  • Ekhtari, N., Sahebi, M.R., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2008, ISPRS Beijing.
  • Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, M. J., 2008, ISPRS Beijing (LiDAR in Hydrology).
  • Esmaily, M. R., Valadan Zouj, M. J., Sahebi, M. R., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2008, ISPRS Beijing.
  • Ekhtari, N., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Sahebi, M.R., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2008, IEEE IGARSS, Boston.
  • Baligh, A., Valadan Zoej, M.J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2008, ISPRS Beijing.
  • Ekhtari, N., Sahebi, M. R., Valadan Zoej, M. J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2008, Map India Conference.
  • Owrangi, I., Rahnamaee, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Afshin Sharifan, R., 2010, Water2010, Quebec.
  • Owrangi, I., Rahnamaee, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Afshin Sharifan, R., 2010, Remote Sensing and Hydrology 2010, Wyoming.
  • Haghigattalab, Mohammadzadeh, A., Valadan Zoej, Taleai, M., 2010, SPIE Remote Sensing, Vol. 7830.
  • Ghasemi, N., Sahebi, M. R., Mohammadzadeh, A., Bayani, R., 2011, SPIE LIDAR&RADAR.
  • Ghasemi, N., Sahebi, M. R., Mohammadzadeh, A., Bayani, R., 2011, EOGC 2011, Munich.
  • Ghasemi, N., Mohammadzadeh, A., Sahebi, M. R., Bayani, R., 2011, ICESE 2011, Bali.
  • Ghassabi, Z., Shanbehzadeh, J., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2015, IEEE ICIP, Quebec.
  • Salehi, M., Mohammadzadeh, A., Maghsoudi, Y., 2016, IEEE IGARSS, Beijing.
  • Ahmadi, S.A., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2017, Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), Dubai.
  • Amani, M., Ghorbanian, A., Mahdavi, S., Mohammadzadeh, A., 2019, ISPRS GeoSpatial Conf., Karaj.
  • Ebrahimi, A., Mohammadzadeh, A., Moghimi, A., Homayouni, S., 2026, ISPRS Arch., Vol. 48, pp. 21-27.

Teaching & Supervision

  • Courses taught: Principles of Remote Sensing (BSc), Computer Programming (C++/Matlab), Image Processing, Applications of RS, Management of RS Data, Optimization, Spatial & Radiometric Calibration, Fuzzy Logic & ANN, Disaster Management, Airborne LiDAR, Terrestrial LiDAR, Physics of Remote Sensing.
  • Supervised over 30 MSc and 6 PhD graduates; currently supervising 4 PhD students (co-supervisors from Sweden, Japan, South Africa).
  • Founder and Director of LiDAR Laboratory (established 2014).
  • Faculty committee member for evaluation and promotion (2018-2022).

Invited & Leadership Roles

  • Co-chair ISPRS Commission VII WG2 (2007, Istanbul).
  • Organizer Special Session “Artificial neural networks applications” IWANN2011.
  • Referee Committee Member of Geomatics conference (2011,2012,2013,2023,2024).
  • General Chair “Second Bioday Conference” KNTU (2020).
  • Manager of four sessions at IEEE IGARSS2020 (Ocean Winds, Urban Detection, Precipitation, Atmospheric Sounding).
  • Guest editor IEEE JSTAR special issue "Advances in change detection".
  • Invited lecturer Iran-French Summer School on Disaster Management (2018).
  • Faculty Vice-Dean for research & technology (2018-2022), Head of Photogrammetry Dept (2014-2018).