Michael Chang

Dr. Michael Chang is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director of Spatial Information Sciences at Macquarie University's School of Natural Sciences. He specializes in remote sensing and GIS applications for environmental monitoring, including vegetation dynamics, land use change, and disaster mitigation. His affiliations include the Data Horizons, Smart Green Cities, and Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centres.

Research Interests:

• Earth observation data integration
• 3D modeling and change detection
• Biodiversity conservation and wetland monitoring
• Spatial analysis of multilingualism and transport planning

Awards:

• 2017 BHERT Award for Outstanding Collaboration
• 2019 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
• 2017 Research Excellence Recognition

Projects: Leads multi-sensor fusion initiatives for vegetation monitoring and collaborates on disaster resilience frameworks. Active in interdisciplinary work spanning ecology, geophysics, and urban planning.

Labs/Teams: Core member of Macquarie's Planetary Research Centre and collaborates internationally on port city resilience projects in Africa.