Ian McCallum
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Ian McCallum leads the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group of the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. NODES exploits both citizen and data science combined with Earth observations to monitor, analyze, and foster progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group is comprised of 30 members with expertise in applied research, development, and project management.McCallum contributes to numerous research projects within NODES, applying various geo-spatial analysis techniques to global environmental and socioeconomic challenges. For example, he is leading the efforts to develop new and novel data and methods within the GRANULAR Project – an ambitious project developing indicators of rural development in Europe. He also leads the activities on stakeholder engagement within the EuropaBON project, a policy-oriented effort with the aim to develop a comprehensive biodiversity monitoring coordination center in Europe. Furthermore, he contributes to the development of the Geo-Wiki, a globally recognized Citizen Science platform designed to monitor the Earth's surface and related activities.
McCallum holds graduate degrees in Forest Science, where he specialized in the application of Geographic Information Systems to issues surrounding view-shed analysis and wildlife habitat modeling, and a doctoral degree applying satellite derived biophysical variables to model vegetation productivity. He is currently on the faculty of the Master of Science in Environmental Technology and International Relations (ETIA) in Vienna, Austria, where he teaches a course on Remote Sensing and the Environment.
Prior to joining IIASA, he worked for both forest industry and forest consulting firms in central and western Canada and the United States.
Last update: 20 MAR 2023
Publications
Perger, C., McCallum, I. , Albrecht, F., See, L. , Fritz, S. , & Thau, D. (2013). Improved cropland mapping in Ethiopia. DOI:10.1553/giscience2013s96. In: GI_Forum 2013 - Creating the GISociety. Conference Proceedings.
See, L. , Fritz, S. , Perger, C., van der Velde, M., Albrecht, F., Schill, C., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , & Obersteiner, M. (2013). Urban Geo-Wiki: A crowdsourcing tool for improving urban land cover. In: Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity. Eds. Silva, CN, Hershey: IGI Global. ISBN 9781466641709 10.4018/978-1-4666-4169-3.ch008.
Albrecht, F., Perger, C., Schill, C., See, L. , McCallum, I. , Collins, R., & Fritz, S. (2013). Using crowdsourcing to examine land acquisitions in Ethiopia. DOI:10.1553/giscience2013s100. In: GI_Forum 2013 - Creating the GISociety. Conference Proceedings.
Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D. , & McCallum, I. (2013). Integration of remote sensing and ground methods in research of carbon cycling of Russian forests. In: Aerospace Methods and GIS-Technologies in Forestry and Forest Management. Proceedings of the V All-Russian Conference Dedicated to the Memory of V.I. Sukhikh and G.N. Korovin, 22-24 April 2013.
Fritz, S. , See, L. , van der Velde, M., Nalepa, R.A., Perger, C., Schill, C., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , Kraxner, F., Vakolyuk, M., Albrecht, F., Shaw, B., & Obersteiner, M. (2013). Downgrading recent estimates of land available for biofuel production. Environmental Science & Technology 47 (3) 1688-1694. 10.1021/es303141h.