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Ing. Jan Komárek, Ph.D.
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Scholar experience

Belong to
Faculty of Environmental Sciences (building FZP III, office VN301)

Department of Spatial Sciences (link)
Laboratory of Geo-Information System & Remote Sensing (link)
Spatial Science in Environment and Ecology Research Group (link)


Positions
2018/10 - now  Assistant professor for UAVs at the Department
2016/11 - 2018/09  Assistant for UAVs at the Department
2014/10 - 2016/10 Technician at the Department
2014/10 - 2018/09 PhD student at the Department


Research Interests
2018-now UAVs for forest inventories and biotic disturbations monitoring
2015-now Environmental Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems
2014-now Spatial data accuracy and its bias


Professional training
2019/06 Navigating Brussels 2.0 with ELLS, Brussels - Belgium
2018/06 GeoSpatial Summer School G3S Open, Olomouc  - Czech Republic
2017/10 High School Teaching Practise in the Czech Republic
2017/06 Trans-Atlantic Training, Pécs - Hungary
2017/04 Fundamentals of GNSS, Warsaw - Poland
2016/06 Split Summer School on Remote Sensing, Chania - Greece


Academic visits
2024/05 Università di Bologna - Italy, joint research (4 weeks)
2024/04 Universidad de Málaga - Spain, 5G, IoT, joint research (less than week)
2019/09 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain, Sentinel-3 soil moisture (12 weeks)
2019/04 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain, bilateral agreement (1 week)
2018/09 Uniwersytet Rolniczy w Krakowie - Poland, internationalizing (less than week)
2018/03 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain, Sentinel-1 data (5 weeks)
2017/05 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Spain, internationalising (2 weeks)


Degrees
2021/07 EU Remote pilot certificate of competency (A1 & A3, A2)
2020/07 Authorized operator of fixed-wing UAV (MTOW 1,7 kg)
2020/07 Authorized operator of rotary-wing UAV (MTOW 13 kg)
2019/05 Authorized operator of rotary-wing UAV (MTOW 1,9 kg)
2018/09 PhD in Applied and Landscape Ecology (Geoinformatics)
2018/06 Complementary pedagogical studies for teachers
2018/02 Authorized operator of rotary-wing UAV (MTOW 1,5 kg)
2017/11 Restricted certificate for radio operator for an aeronautical mobile service
2015/06 Authorized operator of rotary-wing UAV (MTOW 10 kg)
2014/05 MSc in Landscape planning


Invited speaker
2022/10 Open Access Week (link)
2021/05 Euroleague for Life Sciences Open Class (link)
2018/06 Split Remote Sensing Professional Summer School (link)
2018/04 ESA Business Incubation Centre Prague


Teaching experiences & Supervision
since 2023, supervision of PhD students
since 2022, collaboration with Brazilian students under the UNIGOU programme
since 2015, supervisor of Bachelor and Master thesis (Remote Sensing applications)
since 2014, seminars on GIS, Remote Sensing, UAVs


Reviewer records
External reviewer for international scientific journals: International Journal of Remote Sensing, GIScience & Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Drones, Forests, etc.

External reviewer for national research projects submitted to the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

External reviewer for foreign research projects submitted to the Belgian Science Policy


Editor records
2022-2024 Guest Editor for Remote Sensing (link)


Other training
since 2013, Rock Climbing Instructor (RCI), Czech Mountaineering Association, licence valid until 12/2026
since 2008, Summer camp medic, Czech Red Cross, licence valid until 12/2023