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CIVIS Professors

Copernicus Academy & Relays members

José Antonio Rodríguez-Esteban, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Dept. of Geography. GIS + Remote Sensing (Geospatial techniques); cities in various processes (imperviousness, roofs, vegetation...); dunes, salt marshes, vegetation and cities in desert areas. josea.rodriguez@uam.es

Vicente Torres-Costa, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Dept. of Applied Physics, Physics and technical fundamentals of remote sensors, sensor development, multi/hyper spectral remote sensing. vicente.torres@uam.es

Zulimar Hernández-Hernández, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Dept. of Geography. Soil salinity, volcanism in the Atlantic islands. zulimar.hernandez@uam.es

Felipe Yunta Mezquita, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Dept. of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Science. Remote sensing in the study of soil in agriculture and the environment. felipe.yunta@uam.es
 

Emmanuel Vassilakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athen, Dept. of Geography & Climatology. Coastal erosion with the use of optical data dense time series; drone VHR imaging for mapping ancient tsunami deposits; terrestrial LiDAR is also available for use in the educational procedure. evasilak@geol.uoa.gr

Taïs Grippa, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Dept. of Geosciences. Urban geography; Sub-Saharan African cities; GIS and optical remote sensing; Open-source software (QGIS, GRASS GIS); Automated object-based image analysis for VHR imagery (big data); Land use & land cover mapping; Machine Learning and deep learning; Volunteered geographic information (OSM). tais.grippa@ulb.ac.be

Eleonore Wolff, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Dept. of Geosciences. Urban geography; Sub-Saharan African cities; GIS and optical remote sensing; Object-based image analysis; Land use & land cover mapping. Eleonore.Wolff@ulb.ac.be

Ian Brown, Stockholms Universitet, Dept. of Physical Geography.  Synthetic aperture radar, mangrove forests, environmental and climate change. Ian.Brown@natgeo.su.se

GUEST professors

Elena Aragoneses,  Graduated from Environmental Sciences, Geography and Territory Planning at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Graduate thesis on Urban Heat Island in Madrid region with DESIREX data (ESA Campaign 2008). Several MOOC courses on Remote Sensing. Now, continuing her education with a MSc in Geographical Information Technologies (Universidad de Alcalá, UAH). e.aragoneses@edu.uah.es

Miguel Castro Gómez, Miguel Castro Gómez - Remote Sensing Specialist - Frascati, Italia Graduated from Environmental Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid, continued his education with a MSc in Earth Observation and GIS from ITC (The Netherlands) and Lund University (Sweden). Since 2017 he works as remote sensing specialist in Serco, working in several projects such as RUS Copernicus (funded by EC and managed by ESA), H2020 CALLISTO, DHuS (Copernicus Open Access Hub) and ONDA DIAS.

Marcos Jiménez-Michavila, National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Remote Sensing Systems Area. Field and Imaging Spectroscopy. Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) protocols, Spectral library acquisition using field spectroscopy.