Prof. Mario Caetano
Background
Mário Caetano is a Principal Researcher in Directorate-General for Territorial and an Associate Professor at Information Management School, New University of Lisbon (NOVA-IMS). Since October 2014 he is the Deputy Director General of DGT.
Mário Caetano has a degree in Forest Engineering from the Lisboa University of Technology (1989), a MSc in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1995), a Ph.D. in Forestry (2000) from the Lisboa University of Technology and Habilitation in Information Management (2013).
Activities in education
As Associate Professor in NOVA-IMS, Mário Caetano teaches, since 2000, master program classes related to remote sensing, image processing and environmental monitoring. He taught remote sensing and GIS classes in Universidade Atlântica, Universidade Católica and Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Cabo Verde and Universidade Católica de Moçambique.
Since 2000, Mário Caetano was the scientific advisor of more than 50 graduate (MSc and PhD) students on thesis related to theory and applications of remote sensing on land cover mapping and environment monitoring. He was a member of more than 20 MSc and PhD thesis committees.
Recent projects
Research interests include the use of remote sensing data for land cover land use (LCLU) characterisation and environmental monitoring. He is particularly interested on satellite image classification algorithms, spatial and temporal pattern analysis and on accuracy assessment strategies. Mário Caetano is the coordinator of the Portuguese Copernicus collaborative ground segment.
Mário Caetano has coordinated and participated in many research and development projects funded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA), such as: DesertWatch Extension for Portugal; LANDEO (User driven land cover characterisation for multi-scale monitoring using multi-sensor earth observation); AGRO130 (Using satellite images for automatic mapping of forest clear cuts and new plantations); APERTURE (environmentAl tyPological spacE mappeR facilitating the implemenTation of eURopean legislation); AMECIS (Multi-strategic approach for satellite image processing); DREU (Assessment of the dynamics of the Área Metropolitana de Lisboa using remote sensing); PREMFIRE (Prevention and Mitigation of Fire Hazard in Portugal); STORMS (Silvicultural Srategies For Predicting Damage To Forest From Wind, Fire and Snow); BACCHUS (Methodological Approach for vineyard inventory and management).
He was also the coordinator of land cover mapping projects using satellite imagery, e.g. CORINE Land Cover 2000 and 2006 (CLC2000 and CLC2006) for the European Environment Agency (EEA), Monitoring Urban Dynamics (MURBANDY) for Porto, Setúbal and Algarve for the European Commission. He was also responsible for the national project Land Use and Land Cover Map of Continental Portugal for 2007 (COS2007).
Selected publications
Mário Caetano is author of more than 150 publications in books, journals and conference proceedings. Here, just a list of the 5 most important recent publications is presented:
- Maimatiyiming, M., A. Ghulam, T. Teyip, F. Pla, P. Carmona, M. Caetano, M. Sawut, and U. Halik, 2014. Effects of spatial pattern of green space on land surface temperature: implications for sustainable urban planning and climate change adaptation, Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 89: 59-66.
- Costa, H, H .Carrão, F. Bação e M. Caetano, 2014. Combining per-pixel and object based classifications for mapping land cover over large areas, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35 (2): 738-753
- Sarmento, P., C. Fonte, M. Caetano, e S. Stehman, 2013. Incorporating the uncertainty of lnguistic scale reference data to assess accuracy of land cover maps using fuzzy Intervals, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(11): 4008-4024.
- Gonçalves, L., C. Fonte, E.Júlio e M. Caetano, 2012. Uncertainty measures application in the training and evaluation of supervised classifier, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33 (9): 2851-2867.
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Carrão, H., A. Araújo, P. Gonçalves, e M. Caetano, 2010. Multitemporal MERIS images for land cover mapping at national scale: the case study of Portugal, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(8): 2063-2082.
