Prof. Emilio Chuvieco
Background
Professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Master and Ph.D. program in Geographic Information Technologies, and leads the "Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group". Visiting professor at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the Canadian Remote Sensing Center and the University of Maryland. Advisor of 33 Ph.D. dissertations. Principal investigator of 27 research projects. Author of 26 books and 323 scientific papers and book chapters. 113 of those papers are indexed in Scopus, accounting for 2934 citations, with an h-index of 33. Including Spanish publications, the h-index is 47 from 7899 citations (from Google Scholar). All data refer to January, 1st, 2015. Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. Corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance ECV within the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Program. Co-editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment.
Activities in education
I have taught from 1985 to the present in the University of Alcalá. My topics are mainly related to environmental remote sensing, but I have also given courses in global change, environmental ethics, statistics in Geography and geographic information systems. In addition to my ordinary teaching, I have given short courses in 17 countries (France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, China, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, South Africa, Puerto Rico, and USA).
Recent projects
- FIREGLOBE: ANALISIS DE ESCENARIOS DE RIESGO A ESCALA NACIONAL Y GLOBAL. Spanish Ministry of Science and Tecnology. CGL2008-01083/CLI (from 2009 to 2011). PI: Emilio Chuvieco. Number of researches: 15. Budget: 238.370 €.
- "SAFER — Services and Applications For Emergency Response”. European Commission: FP7-SPACE-2007-1. (from 2009 to 2011). PI: Emilio Chuvieco (from UAH participation. General PI: EADS Astrium. Number of researches: 57. Budget: 101.816 € (UAH grant)
- ECV FIRE Disturbance. European Space Agency: Nº 4000101779/10/I-NB (from 2010 to 2014). General PI: Emilio Chuvieco. Number of research centers: 10. Total Budget: 1.800.000 € (500.000 € UAH grant).
Selected publications
(the 5 most recent/important ones from the last 5 years)
- JURDAO, S., YEBRA, M., GUERSCHMAN, J. P. y CHUVIECO, E.: Regional estimation of woodland moisture content by inverting Radiative Transfer Models: Remote Sensing of Environment, 132(0), pp. 59-70, 2013.
- YEBRA, M., DENNISON, P., CHUVIECO, E., RIAÑO, D., ZYLSTRA, P., HUNT, E. R., DANSON, F. M., QI, Y. y JURDAO, S.: A global review of remote sensing of live fuel moisture content for fire danger assessment: moving towards operational products: Remote Sensing of Environment, 136, pp. 455-468, 2013.
- CHUVIECO, E., MARTÍNEZ, S., ROMÁN, M. V., HANTSON, S. y PETTINARI, M. L.: Integration of ecological and socio-economic factors to assess global wildfire vulnerability: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, pp. 245-258, 2014.
- CHUVIECO, E., AGUADO, I., JURDAO, S., PETTINARI, M. L., YEBRA, M., SALAS, J., HANTSON, S., DE LA RIVA, J., IBARRA, P., RODRIGUES, M., ECHEVERRÍA, M., AZQUETA, D., ROMÁN, M. V., BASTARRIKA, A., MARTÍNEZ, S., RECONDO, C., ZAPICO, E. y MARTÍNEZ-VEGA, F. J. : Integrating geospatial information into fire risk assessment: International Journal of Wildland Fire, 23, pp. 606–619, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF12052.
- HANTSON, S., PUEYO, S. y CHUVIECO, E. Global fire size distribution is driven by human impact and climate.Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2015, doi: 10.1111/geb.12246, vol. 24, 77-86.
