Dr. Smilovsky focuses on SAR/InSAR and GIScience applications and serves as a Geospatial Service Center leader. She has 15 years of professional geospatial experience, with over 10 years focused on InSAR and GIS technology. She received her Ph.D. in Geographic Information Science from Texas State University at San Marcos and holds a Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sustainability from Arizona State University at Tempe.
Dr. Smilovsky worked as a Remote Sensing and GIS Scientist at a global engineering firm for much of her career. In this role, she worked on large multimillion-dollar geotechnical and environmental engineering projects that sculpted her skill set and industry expertise. She has received many accolades for her contributions, including the Top 40 Under 40 Geospatial Professional Leader award.
Her passion is leveraging remote sensing and GIS technologies to monitor and manage the physical processes that affect our landscape under anthropogenic pressures in a changing world. Her mission is to make this information accessible to the community. Her research focuses on InSAR time series analyses and GIS processes to characterize and monitor ground deformation due to groundwater pumping, hydrocarbon production activities, mining, landslides, earth fissuring, and more.
