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LIST  OF   PUBLICATIONS

Theses

M.A   1983       "Geomorphological Factors in determining   Digital   Terrain Models".

Haifa University, and the Geological Survey of Israel

Supervisors: Prof. Moshe Inbar, Dr. Binyamin Begin and

Prof. John Hall.

PhD   1990      "Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution of Bare Desert Terrain"

                        Science Faculty, University  of Tasmania,  Australia.

Supervisor: Prof. Manuel Nunez

Refereed Articles  in professional Journals :

(Underlined Name: Postgraduate Student)

• 1. Shoshany, M., 1989a, Secondary reflection effect on sensor response for a V shaped valley. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 10(7), 1197-1206.
• 2. Shoshany, M., 1989b, A roughness digitizer for field measurements of roughness elements and their spatial patterns. J. of Sedimentary Petrology, 59, 628-629.
• 3. Shoshany, M., 1991, The equifinality of bidirectional reflectance distributions (BRDF) of various microstructures. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 13(12), 2355-2361.
• 4. Shoshany, M., 1992, A Simulation of bidirectional reflectance distributions for various surface microstructures. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 13(12), 2355-2361.
• 5. Shoshany M. and Degani A., 1992, Shoreline detection by digital image processing of aerial photography. Journal of Coastal Research, 8 (1), 29-34.
• 6. Shoshany, M., 1993, Roughness - reflectance relationships of bare desert terrain: an empirical study. Remote Sensing of Environment. 45. 15-27.
• 7. Shoshany, M., Inbar, M., Begin, M., and Hall, J., 1993, Analysis of facet and regional structure relationships in determining DTM grid density. Israel Journal of Earth Science. 41(2-4). 217-225.
• 8. Shoshany, M., Kutiel, P. and Lavee, H., 1994, Remote Sensing of vegetation cover along a climatological gradient. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 49, 1-8.
• 9. Shoshany, M., Aminov, R., and Goldreich, Y., 1994, The extraction of roof tops from thermal imagery for analyzing the urban heat island structure. Geocarto International 9(4). 61-69.
• 10. Shoshany, M., Kutiel, P. and Lavee, H., 1995, Seasonal vegetation cover changes as indicators of soil types along a climatological gradient: a mutual study of environmental patterns and controls using remote sensing. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 16, 2137 - 2151.
• 11. Shoshany, M., 1995, Geographic Information Systems in Israel: A review of the current development trends. Advanced Technology, 10. 399-402. (Invited Article).
• 12. Kutiel, P., Lavee, H., and Shoshany, M., 1995, The influence of a climatic gradient upon vegetation dynamics along a Mediterranean arid transect. J. of Biogeography. 22, 1065-1071.
• 13. Shoshany M., Golik A. Degani A. Lavee H. & Gvirtzman G., 1996, New Evidence for Sand Transport Direction Along the Coastline of Israel, J. of Coastal Research, 12(1), 311-325.
• 14. Shoshany, M. and Wechsler, E., 1995, Analysis and modeling of urban floor area densities using remote sensing : the case study of Haifa , Israel. Urban Systems, 3. 32-41.
• 15. Shoshany M. Kutiel P. & Lavee H. ,1996, Monitoring temporal vegetation cover changes in Mediterranean and arid ecosystem using a remote sensing technique: case study of the Judean mountain and the Judean desert. Journal of Arid Environment, 32, 1-13.
• 16. Shoshany, M., 2000, Satellite Remote Sensing of Mediterranean Vegetation: A review within an Ecological Research. Progress in Physical Geography , 24(2), 153-178
• 17. Shoshany, M., Svoray, T., Curran, P., Foody, G., and Perevolotsky, A., 2000, The relationships between ERS-2 SAR backscatter and soil moisture: generalization from a humid to semi-arid transect. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 21(11), 2337-2343.
• 18. Kelman, E., and Shoshany, M., 2000, A method for the detection of Repetitive Local Effects (RLEs) in Discrete Recrusive Processes. .Int. J. of Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 5, 139-148
• 19. Shoshany, M., 2000, Detection and analysis of soil erodibility patterns using multi-date airphotographs : the case study of Avisur Highland, Israel. IAHS Publ. Series 261, 127-138.
• 20. Sternberg, M., and Shoshany, M., 2001, Bio-physical slope related differences in Mediterranean woody formations: a comparison of a semiarid and an arid sites in Israel. J. of Ecological Research, 16, 335-345
• 21. Svoray, T, Shoshany, M., Curran, P., Foody, G., and Perevolotsky, A., 2001, Relationship between bio-physical parameters of four life-forms and ERS-2 backscatter in the semi-arid zone of Israel. Int. J. of Remote Sensing. 22(8), 1601-1607.
• 22. Sternberg, M., and Shoshany, M., 2001, Aboveground biomass allocation and water content relationships in Mediterranean trees and shrubs at two climatological regions in Israel. Plant Ecology, 157, 171-179.
• 23. Shoshany, M., 2002, Landscape fragmentation and Soil erodibility in south and north facing slopes during ecosystems recovery: an analysis from multi-date airphotographs. Geomorphology, 45, 3-20.
• 24. Shoshany, M., and Svoray, T., 2002, Multi-date adaptive spectral unmixing and its application for the analysis of Ecosystems' transition along a climatic gradient. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 81, 1-16
• 25. Shoshany, M., and Goldshlager, N., 2002, Land-use Changes in Israel, 1950-1990 and their deriving forces: A Comparative two-scale Analysis. Land-Use Policy. 19(2), 123-133
• 26. Cohen, Y., and Shoshany, M., 2002, Integration of remote sensing, GIS and expert knowledge in national knowledge-based crop recognition in Mediterranean environment. Int. J. of Applied Earth Observation and GeoInformation, 4, 75-87.
• 27. Svoray, T., and Shoshany, M., 2002, SAR based estimation of Aerial Above ground Biomass (AAB) of Herbaceous vegetation in the Semi Arid zone of Israel : A Modification to the Water Cloud Model. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 23, 4089-4100.
• 28. Svoray, T., and Shoshany, M., 2003, Herbaceous Biomass Retrieval in Habitats of complex composition: A Model Merging SAR images with Unmixed Landsat TM data. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 41(7), 1592-1601.
• 29. Svoray, T., Shoshany, M., and Pervolotzki, A., 2003, Mediterranean rangeland response to human intervention: a Remote Sensing and GIS study, J. of Mediterranean Ecology, 4, 3-11
• 30. Sokoletsky, L., Dubinsky, Z., Shoshany, M., and Stambler, N., 2003, Estimation of phytoplankton pigment concentration in the Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat) by in situ and remote sensing single-wavelength algorithms. Int. J. of Remote Sensing. 24(24), 5049-5073.
• 31. Goldshlager, N., Amit, I., and Shoshany, M., 2003, Green Ideas at the beginning of the 20st Century : Planning the Ahuza Neighborhood in Haifa. KATEDRA. 87-110. (in Hebrew)
• 32. Sokoletsky, L., Dubinsky, Z., Shoshany, M., and Stambler, N., 2004, Single-wavelength algorithms for in situ or remote sensing estimation of mean pigment concentration. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 25(7), 1517 - 1525.
• 33. Cohen, O., Kutiel, P., Shoshany, M., and Shuv, M., 2004, Vegetation establishment on the southern Israeli coastal sand dunes between the years 1965 and 1999. Landscape and Urban Planning. 67, 141-156.
• 34. Cohen, Y., Shoshany, M., and Doytsher, Y., 2004, Integrating pseudo hydrologic logic in road extraction, Surveying and Land Information.64 (1).
• 35. Cohen, O., Kutiel, P., Shoshany, M., and Shuv, M., 2004, , Invasion rate of alien species Acacia Saligna in the Nitzanim coastal sand dunes. Isr. J. of Plant Sciences 52(2), 115-124.
• 36. Svoray, T., and Shoshany, M., 2004, SAR-based mapping of soils by Multi-Scale analysis of drying - rates. Remote Sensing of Environment 92(2), 233-246.
• 37. Kelman, E., Sonis, M., and Shoshany, M., 2004, Log-linear model for discrete anisotropic dynamics of geographical objects. Surveying and Land Information Systems. 64(2)
• 38. Kelman, E., and Shoshany, M., 2005, Implicit Reconstruction of Patch dynamics from single date aerial photographs: mutuality and complementarity in Pattern Change. Int. J. of Remote Sensing, 26(9), 2021-2028.
• 39. Cohen, Y., and Shoshany, M., 2005, Analysis of convergent evidence in an evidential reasoning knowledge-based classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 96(3-4), 518-528.
• 40. Shoshany, M., and Kelman, E., 2006, Mutuality in soil and vegetation pattern characteristics: Modeling with Cellular Automata. Geomorphology , 77(1-2), 35-46.
• 41. Golshleger, N., Amit, I., and Shoshany, M., 2006, A Step Ahead of Time Ahuza in Haifa - Public Use of Privately Owned Land in the 1920s. GeoJournal , 67, 57-69.
• 42. Rud, R., Shsoshany, M., and Alhanatis, V., 2006, Absorption Features' based clustering in partially calibrated hyperspectral imagery: with a case study of Mediterranean species Separation. J Real Time Image Processing, 1(2), 143-152.
• 43. Shoshany, M., and Cohen, Y., 2007, Evidence versus Inference in Remote Sensing Recognition. Int. J. of Remote Sensing 28(11), 2613-2634.
• 44. Shoshany, M., Even Paz, A., and Bekhor, S., 2007, Clusters' Evolution in Dynamic Point Patterns: with a case study of Ants' Simulation. Int. J. of Geographical Information Science. 21(7), 777-797.
• 45. Porat, I., Shoshany, M., and Frenkel, A., 2007, Residential and Non-Residential Construction Initiations in Tel-Aviv from 1976 to 2003: Autocorrelation Analysis of Urban Structure Evolution. Environment and Planning B (In press- On Line).
• 46. Shoshany, M., 2007, An Evolutionary Patch Pattern approach for Texture Discrimination. Pattern Recognition (In Press-On Line).

Accepted

• 47. Srebro, H., and Shoshany, M., 2008, Comprehensive Process-Driven Boundary Making Model: A Case Study of the Jordan-Israel Boundary. Survey Review.( Accepted)
• 48. Shoshany, M., Almog, O., and Alhanatis, V., 2008, Wavelet decomposition for reducing flux density effects on hyperspectral classification, IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (accepted).
• 49. Golshleger, N., Shoshany, M., Kornibad, L., Getker, M., and Arbel, M., 2008, Modelling Mutual Relationships between Urban Rainfall and Runoff : A Remote Sensing Case-Study in Israel. Urban Water, (accepted pending approval of minor revision)
• 50. Friedman, L., Netanyahu, N., and Shoshany, M., 2008, Mean-Shifts Algorithm for multi-temporal and Multi-spectral Classification. Int. J., of Remote Sensing (accepted- pending approval of minor revision).

Submitted Articles

• 1. Shoshany, M., Self-Organization and Emergence in Implicit Patch Pattern Evolution along a Mediterranean Climatic Gradient. Int. J. of Geographical Information Science.
• 2. Cohen, Y., Cohen, A., Amit-Cohen, I., and Shoshany, M., Least Cost Path for Green Corridors Delineation. Journal of Spatial Science.
• 3. Carmel, Y., Paz, S., Jahashan, F., and Shoshany, M., Assessment of Fire Risk using Monte Carlo Simulations of Fire spread. Forest Ecology and Management.

Refereed  Chapters (International)

• 1. Shoshany, M., 1996, Remote sensing of the environment in Israel. "Mosaic of Israeli Geography", - Ben-Gurion University Press 1996 (Liphshitz and Grados : editors). 321-332.
• 2. Shoshany, M., 2004, Remote Sensing of Landscape Changes in the Israeli Mediterranean, Contemporary Israeli Geography (Edited by : Maos, Inbar and Shmueli). Pp. 237-246
• 3. Kelman, E., Shoshany, M., and Sonis, M., 2004, Mathematical Modeling of spatio-temporal shoreline dynamics. Contemporary Israeli Geography (Edited by : Maos, Inbar and Shmueli). Pp. 195-202.
• 4. Shoshany, M., Goldshlager, N., Bar (Kutiel) , P., and Grossman, D., 2004, Man-Landscape Relationships in Mediterranean Areas : A Study of Landscape Changes in the Mount Carmel. In : Recent Dynamics of Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape (Edited by: Mazzoleni, S., di Pasquale, G., de Martiono, P., Mulligan, M. , and Rego, F., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, London. P. 95-104. (2^nd Edition 2005)
• 5. Sonis, M., Shoshany, M., Goldshlager, N., 2006, Landscape change in the Carmel area of Israel: an application of matrix land-use analysis, In: "Modeling Landuse Change" (Edited by : Eric Koomen, Aldrik Bakema, John Stillwell, Henk Scholten) Springer, The Nederlands, 61-82.
• 6. Shoshany, M., 2008, Vegetation Cover and Biomass along climatic gradients: A Synthesis of two case studies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing in the Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Desertification (RGLDD) Book, Taylor & Francis. (In Press).

Refereed Articles & Book Chapters in Hebrew

• 1. Ben Artzi, Y., and Shoshany, M., 1986, The Arabs of Haifa 1972-1983 : Demographic and Spatial changes. Monograph Series on the Middle East, (4), 33-49.
• 2. Shoshany, M., 1994. The application of Satellite data for the study of spatio-temporal vegetation cover changes in Mediterranean regions and their margins. Horizons, 40-41. 83-97
• 3. Shoshany, M., Kutiel, P., Rozenshtock, Golan, N., and Lavee, H., 1996, The study of cloud patterns along the climatological gradient of the Judean Desert. Judea and Samaria Research Vol. 4. 311-316.
• 4. Kutiel, P., Lavee, H., and Shoshany, M., 1996, Vegetation response to climatic changes in the Judean Mountains and desert. Judea and Samaria Research, 6. 299-308
• 5. Svoray, T., Shoshany, M., and Perevolotsky, A., 1996, Man's impact on Mediterranean woodland: a quantitative assessment with remote sensing technique. Ecology & Environment, (3) , 155-160.
• 6. Svoray, T., Shoshany, M., and Pervolotsky, A., 1997, A study of vegetation - topography relationships in the Judean Mountains using Digital Elevation Model and satellite images. . Judea and Samaria Research, 7, 379-388
• 7. Shoshany, M., and Lavee, H., 1998, Soil erodibility along the climatic gradient of the Judean Desert. Judea and Samaria Research. 8, 291-298.
• 8. Shoshany, M., and Goldshlager, N., 1998, A comparative study of developed area in Israel in general and Mount Carmel in particular between 1950 and 1990. Horizons, 48-49, 131-145.
• 9. Shoshany, M., Goldshlager, N., 2000, Pine plantations in Ahuza Haifa: Implementation of "Greeny Ideas" at the beginning of the 20^th Century, Israel and Jerusalem Research. 9, 347- 358.
• 10. Shoshany, M., 2000, Studying the vegetation distribution and landuse with satellite Images, Remote Sensing - The Use of Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images in Israel Studies. (Editors: Kedar & Danin). Yad Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem, p. 85-92.
• 11. Kula, R., Shoshany, M., and Gvirzman, G., 2000, Lithological and Minerological mapping in Makhtesh Ramon with Airborne Scanner Images , Remote Sensing - The Use of Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images in Israel Studies. (Editors: Kedar & Danin). Yad Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem, p. 45-50. (In Hebrew)
• 12. Shoshany, M., Golik, A., and Haimi, O., 2002, Shoreline changes in Ashquelon coast between 1956 and 1990. Ashquelon Book (Sasson, A., and Safrai, Z., editors). 222-231, ERETZ Pub. Tel Aviv.
• 13. Cohen, O., Kutiel, P., Shoshany, M., and Shuv, M., 2002, Invasion rate of alien species Acacia Saligna in the Nitzanim coastal sand dunes, Israel. Horizons, 55. 77-96
• 14. Cohen, O., Kutiel, P., Shoshany, M., and Shuv, M., 2003, Landscape changes in Israel's Southern Coastal Dunes 1965-1999, Horizons , 56. 46-61.
• 15. Shoshany, M., Srebro, H., and Schick, A., 2003, Historical Carto-Morphological perspective on the definition of Wadi Arava boundary. Horizons. 57/58, 159-167.