Yafit Cohen

Biography

Dr. Yafit Cohen is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering at ARO since 2003. She is an adjunct faculty at the Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, and teaches GIS with focus on precision agriculture.
She possesses a B.A. in geography from Bar-Ilan University and a Ph.D. in remote sensing and GIS for crop recognition. She served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Technion, Haifa during 2002 and specialized in remote sensing for land-use recognition and mapping.
Her scientific main interests are:
Remote-sensing for precision agriculture and
Spatio-temporal analysis of insect in agricultural environments like Medfly and Red-palm-weevil.
She is leading long-term studies in thermal remote sensing and recently in fusing aerial and satellite remote sensing for water status variability mapping and for variable rate irrigation decision making.
She has published more than 60 articles in refereed journals and chapters in 6 books. The articles reflects her cooperation with PA research groups from USA, Europe, and Canada. During the past 20 years, she served as a member of a number of scientific committees, has served as a guest editor of special issues in refereed journals, served as a member of the editorial board of the Remote Sensing journal. She serves today as a member of the editorial board of the journals Precision Agriculture.
She is a member of ISPA and EuroAgEng since 2005.

Currently, she is supervising 5 MA and 5 PhD students.

Together with Prof. Victor Alchanatis she served as the chair of the ECPA in 2015 held in Israel.