Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering and Management Department

 Civil Engineering Faculty

  K.N. Toosi University of Technology

  Tehran, Iran

 

 

   Educations

 

Ph.D. in Geomatics Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2008-2013).

M.Sc. in Geomatics Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2005-2007).

B.Sc., Surveying Engineering, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran (2001-2005).

 

 

 

 University Position

 

 

 

 

 

:Courses Taught 

• Surveying (undergraduate course with field component)
• Fundamentals of GIS in Civil Engineering (undergraduate course)
•  Engineering Statistics & Probabilities (graduate course)
• RS and GIS Application in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) & Laboratory (graduate course)
•  Advanced Topics in Application of GIS and RS in Water Resources (graduate course)
•  Physics of Remote Sensing (graduate course)
•  Remote Sensing Data Management (graduate course)

 

 

  Field of Interest 

• Optical Remote Sensing (Reflective and Emissive)
  
• Microwave Remote Sensing
  
• Digital Image Processing
  
• Geospatial Information System (GIS)
  
• Application of Remote Sensing in Water Resources
  
• Application of GIS in Water Resources

 

Publications

1. Ghahreman, R., Rahimzadegan, M., 2022. Calculating net radiation of freshwater reservoir to estimate spatial distribution of evaporation using satellite images, Journal of Hydrology, 605:127392
   
2. Ghaderi, M., Rahimzadegan, M., 2021. Improving AMSR2 total precipitable water vapour model using metaheuristic algorithms, Hydrological Sciences Journal 66(14): 2102-2115 doi:10.1080/02626667.2021.1981544
3. Rahimzadegan, M., Davari, A., Sayadi, A., 2021. Estimating Regional Soil Moisture with Synergistic Use of AMSR2 and MODIS Images, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 87(9): 649-660
4. Mirakhorlo, M.S., Rahimzadegan, M., 2021. Analysing the land-use change effects on soil erosion and sediment in the North of Iran; a case study: Talar watershed, Geocarto International 36(8): 936-956 doi:10.1080/10106049.2019.1624985
5. Beyk Ahmadi, N. and Rahimzadegan, M., 2021. Improving the accuracy of global precipitation measurement integrated multi-satellite retrievals (GPM IMERG) using atmosphere precipitable water and altitude in climatic regions of Iran, International Journal of Remote Sensing 42(7), 2759-2781.
6. Pourmansouri, F., Rahimzadegan, M., 2020. Evaluation of vegetation and evapotranspiration changes in Iran using satellite data and ground measurements. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 14, 034530.
7. Merrikhpour, MH, Rahimzadegan M., 2020. A synergistic use of AMSR2 and MODIS images to detect saline soils (Study Area: Iran), Comptes Rendus Géoscience 352:127-138.
8. Naghdi, K., Moradi, M., Rahimzadegan, M., Kabiri, K., Rowshan Tabari, M. 2020. Quantitative modeling of cyanobacterial concentration using MODIS imagery in the Southern Caspian Sea. Journal of Great Lakes Research 46, 1251-1261.
9. Mirakhorlo MS, Rahimzadegan M., 2020. Evaluating estimated sediment delivery by Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and Sediment Delivery Distributed (SEDD) in the Talar Watershed, Iran, Frontiers of Earth Science 14:50-62 
10. Rahimzadegan, M., Entezari, S. A. 2019. Performance of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) method in monitoring groundwater-level changes in local-scale study regions within Iran. Hydrogeology Journal, 27, 2497-2509.
11. Merrikhpour M.H., Rahimzadegan M., 2019. Analysis of temporal and spatial variations of total precipitable water vapor in western Iran using radiosonde and MODIS measurements, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 13(4):1-22, 22.
12. Hassanli H., Rahimzadegan M., 2019. Investigating extracted total precipitable water vapor from Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and MODIS measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 193:105060.
13. Rahimzadegan M., Janani A., 2019. Estimating evapotranspiration of pistachio crop based on SEBAL algorithm using Landsat 8 satellite imagery, Agricultural Water Management 217:383-390.
14. Mirakhorlo, M.S., Rahimzadegan, M., 2018. Application of sediment rating curves to evaluate efficiency of EPM and MPSIAC using RS and GIS, Environmental Earth Sciences 77(20), 723.
15. Naghdi, K., Moradi, M., Kabiri, K., Rahimzadegan, M., 2018. The effects of cyanobacterial blooms on MODIS-L2 data products in the southern Caspian Sea, Oceanologia, 60(3): 367-377.
16. Zamani Losgedaragh, S., Rahimzadegan, M., 2018. Evaluation of SEBS, SEBAL, and METRIC models in estimation of the evaporation from the freshwater lakes (Case study: Amirkabir dam, Iran), Journal of Hydrology, 561: 523-531.
17. Varamesh, S., Hosseini, S.M., Rahimzadegan, M., 2018. Detection of Sand Dust Storm on MODIS Images Processing. Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 17(1): 307-310.
18. Panahi, M.R., Mousavi, S.M., Rahimzadegan M., 2017. Delineation of groundwater potential zones using remote sensing, GIS, and AHP technique in Tehran–Karaj plain, Iran. Environmental Earth Sciences, 76(23): p. 792.
19. Gamshadzaei, M. H., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. Stable and accurate methods for identification of water bodies from Landsat series imagery using meta-heuristic algorithms. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 11(4): p. 1-18. doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.045005.
20. Merrikhpour, M.H., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. Improving the Algorithm of Extracting Regional Total Precipitable Water Vapor Over Land From MODIS Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(10): p. 5889-5898.
21. Merrikhpour, M.H., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. An Introduction to an Algorithm for Extracting Precipitable Water Vapor Over Land from AMSR2 Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10(9): p. 3975-3984.
22. Varamesh, S., Hosseini, S.M., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. Comparison of conventional and advanced classification approaches by landsat-8 imagery.   Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 15, 1407-1416.
23. Varamesh, S., Hosseini, S.M., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. Detection of land use changes in Northeastern Iran by landsat satellite data. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 15, 1443-1454.
24. Varamesh, S., Hosseini, S.M., Rahimzadegan, M., 2017. Estimation of Atmospheric Water Vapor Using MODIS Data 1.(Case Study: Golestan Province of Iran). Journal of Materials and Environmental Science, 8, 1690-1695.
25. Rahimzadegan M., Sadeghi, B. 2016. Development of the iterative edge detection method applied on blurred satellite images: state of the art. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 10 (3). doi:10.1117/1.JRS.10.035018.
26. Rahimzadegan, M., Sadeghi, B., Masoumi, M., & Taghizadeh Ghalehjoghi, S. 2015. Application of target detection algorithms to identification of iron oxides using ASTER images: a case study in the North of Semnan province, Iran. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 8(9), 7321-7331. doi:10.1007/s12517-014-1757-4.
27. Mobasheri, M.R., Rahimzadegan, M. 2012. Introduction to protein absorption lines index for relative assessment of green leaves protein content using EO-1 hyperion datasets. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology 14 (1):135-147.
28. Rahimzadegan, M., Mobasheri, M.R. 2011. An attempt for improving MODIS atmospheric temperature profiles products in clear sky. Meteorological Applications 18 (2):181-187.
29. Mobasheri, M.R., Rahimzadegan, M. 2011. Spectral Reconstruction of the Pixels in a Satellite Image through Mixing Process. International Geoinformatics Research and Development Journal 2 (2).

 

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