Manuel Campos Taberner, from Villarreal (Castellón), has received the outstanding PhD thesis award in the area of Physics for his thesis “Development of an Earth observation processing chain for crop biophysical parameters at local and global scale”. The work was dircted by Francisco Javier García Haro, main researcher of the LSA-SAF project of the ERS group, and Gustau Campos Valls, professor of electronic engineering and researcher at the IPL in the Image and Signal Processing (ISP) group. The thesis shows that the use of Big Data technology in real applications in agriculture and in monitoring the vegetation of the earth is feasible.
