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AMOROS LOPEZ, JULIA CARMEN

AMOROS LOPEZ, JULIA CARMEN

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatResponsables de Gestio AcademicaCoordinador/a Titulacio de Grau

Docencia: Dpto. Ingeniería Electrónica, ETSE. Investigación: Image Processing Laboratory (IPL). Edificios Investigación de Paterna.

(9635) 43347

julia.amoros@uv.es

Biography
 

Dr. Julia Amorós López obtained her degree in Telecommunications Engineering, as well as her Master's and Doctorate degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Valencia in 2000, 2002, and 2012, respectively. Since 2003, she has been part of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Valencia, where she is currently a tenured professor. She teaches courses on industrial automation, time series analysis, image processing, machine learning, deep learning, and classification and change detection in remote sensing data. She is also a researcher at the Image Processing Laboratory at the University of Valencia, which is made up of a multidisciplinary team of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. Her work is mainly related to pattern recognition and machine learning applied to multispectral remote sensing images. Specifically, her doctoral thesis focused on image fusion, developing methods to improve spatial resolution by applying multitemporal image fusion techniques and change detection with improved spatio-temporal resolutions.

In addition, she has participated in the development of ESA's Cal/Val database and in various field campaigns (SPARC, SEN2FLEX, CEFLES2), helping to organize and manage different types of vegetation parameter measurements from in situ, aerial, and satellite data. Her research in machine learning and pattern recognition has also been carried out within the framework of several national and international projects. She has been involved in several national transfer projects (Valencian Cartographic Agency - ICV; National Geographic Institute - IGN), and in numerous international projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and the European Union (Sentinels Synergy Framework SenSyF project of the FP7-Space program).

She has mainly developed algorithms in classification, change detection, and image fusion applications using different optical sensors for Earth observation, including aerial and satellite data (Proba/CHRIS, Landsat, SPOT, MERIS, MODIS, Sentinel-2, among others). She has also participated in the development of algorithms for cloud removal in ESA projects and in multitemporal analysis for crop monitoring. Currently, his research focuses on obtaining biophysical parameters and vegetation properties using satellite data, multitemporal image fusion, and change detection. She also works with the Department of Geography and History at the University of Valencia on estimating ocean water parameters using hyperspectral remote sensing images, as well as classifying different optical water types (OWT) using Sentinel-3 images, UAVs, and in-situ measurements.

Dr. J. Amorós López has a Hirsch h-index of h=21 according to Google Scholar.

CAMPOS TABERNER, MANUEL

CAMPOS TABERNER, MANUEL

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A

Facultat de Física. Bloc C. Departament de Física de la Terra i Termodinàmica. Despatx 3326 Dr. Moliner, 50 46100 Burjassot, Valencia

(9635) 43256

manuel.campos@uv.es

CERVERA MONTESINOS, JAVIER

CERVERA MONTESINOS, JAVIER

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
COLL COMPANY, CESAR

COLL COMPANY, CESAR

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial

Fac. de Física, Bloque C, planta 3, despacho 3322 Campus de Burjassot

(9635) 43247

cesar.coll@uv.es

Biography
 

César Coll Company (Riba-roja de Túria, Valencia, 1966) has a degree in Physics (1988) and a PhD in Physics (1994) both from the University of Valencia. Since 1997 he has been a Tenured University Professor in the Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics at the University of Valencia. From 2010 to date he is Professor of Earth Physics in the same department.

His field of research is Remote Sensing for Earth observation and environmental applications, especially in thermal infrared part of the spectrum, with emphasis on atmospheric and emissivity correction of satellite measurements for land surface temperature retrieval, emissivity-temperature separation from thermal infrared radiances, field radiometry for temperature and emissivity measurement, selection of thermal bands and validation of land surface temperature products provided by satellites. As a result of research on these topics, he has authored 109 international publications included in the Web of Science (WoS) of the Science Citation Index (SCI). Of these international publications, 68 have been in indexed scientific journals, 46 of which occupy the first quartile (Q1) in their corresponding scientific category according to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), 2023 edition.

The impact of these publications is evident in the number of citations he has received to date (3540), the average number of citations per year in the period 2021-25 (204) and the applicant's h-index (31) according to the most recently available WoS data. In addition, he has published (34) in other scientific journals not included in the WoS, most of them in the Revista de Teledetección, edited by the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing. He has co-authored the chapter "Land Surface Temperature" in the book "Taking the Temperature of the Earth. Steps towards Integrated Understanding of Variability and Change" edited by G. C. Hulley and D. Ghent (Elsevier, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-12-814458-9).

As a result of the research activity carried out, he has been granted with 5 six-year research periods (all possible, the last one in 2021) by the National Agency for Quality and Accreditation (ANECA).

Prof. C. Coll has participated in numerous scientific meetings in the field of Remote Sensing. Regarding communications in Congresses, Conferences and Seminars, it has a total of more than 150, including 9 presentations by invitation in different national and international congresses, and 30 communications included in the ISI Proceedings.

He has been Principal Investigator of 6 competitive projects, of which 4 have been funded by the National R+D+i Plan, one by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the other by the North American Space Agency (NASA). In addition, he has been a collaborating researcher in 27 projects, including 8 from the European Union's Framework Programmes, 8 from the European Space Agency, 8 from the National R+D Plan and 2 from the Generalitat Valenciana. He has carried out pre-doctoral and postdoctoral research stays at the Hydrology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture.

He is a regular reviewer of the most prestigious international journals in the field of Remote Sensing, with more than 100 articles reviewed. As other research and management merits, he has been an evaluator of Research Projects (National R+D+i Plan; National Supercomputing Center-Marenostrum; CONICYT, Chile), member of the Scientific Committee of the XII and XIII National Congresses of Remote Sensing (2007 and 2009), of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS (2007), of the Western Mediterranean Meteorology and Climatology Conference (2008 and 2010), and member of the Organizing Committee of IGARSS (2018). Since November 2010 he has been an expert in the area of Earth Sciences of the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight (ANEP).

As for the teaching activity, he has been granted with 6 teaching five-year periods, the last one granted on 31/12/2019 (all possible), having taught at the University of Valencia since the 1990-91 academic year, in bachelor's degrees (1st and 2nd cycle), official master's degree and doctoral programs. He has been co-director of the Doctoral Theses of Ms. Raquel Niclòs Corts (2005), Ms. Maria Mira Sarrió (2010), Mr. Joan Miquel Galve Romero (2014), Mr. Federico Piñuela García (2023) and Mr. Jesús Puchades (2025). Since 2012 she has tutored six Master's Degree Final Projects. Since March 2013 he has been Director of the official Master's Degree in Remote Sensing of the Faculty of Physics (University of Valencia), having been a member of the Academic Coordination Committee of the Master's Degree since its implementation in 2008.

FANSA SALEH, GHALEB

FANSA SALEH, GHALEB

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/ACoordinador/a CursSecretari/a de Departament

Departament de Geografia Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 28. 46010 VALENCIA

64892

652246877

ghaleb.fansa@uv.es

GARCIA HARO, FRANCISCO JAVIER

GARCIA HARO, FRANCISCO JAVIER

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

(9635) 43111

j.garcia.haro@uv.es

GILABERT NAVARRO, MARIA AMPARO

GILABERT NAVARRO, MARIA AMPARO

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Facultat de Física Departament de Física de la Terra i Termodinàmica Despatx 3321-A Dr. Moliner, 50 46-Burjassot, Valencia

(9635) 43118

m.amparo.gilabert@uv.es

Biography
 

Head of the Environmental Remote Sensing Group (UV-ERS) at the University of Valencia (www.uv.es/uvers), whose main lines of research are linked to the study of vegetation using remote sensing (development of algorithms for its detection and quantification). With my latest national projects (ÁRTEMIS, RESET CLIMATE, ESCENARIOS, and ECCE EO), we have initiated the study of carbon fluxes using satellite imagery. Throughout my career, I have supervised 5 doctoral theses and numerous research projects (12 credits), master's theses (12 credits), and final degree projects.

GOMEZ AMO, JOSE LUIS

GOMEZ AMO, JOSE LUIS

PDI-Titular d'Universitat

Facultat de Física 3er piso Edificio C Despacho 3308 C/ Dr. Moliner, 50 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) Spain telf: +34 96 354 3313 Jose.L.Gomez-Amo@uv.es

96 354 3313

jose.l.gomez-amo@uv.es

GOMEZ CHOVA, LUIS

GOMEZ CHOVA, LUIS

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Mobilitat
Biography
 

Prof. Dr. Luis Gómez-Chova is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Valencia, Spain, and Senior Researcher with the Image and Signal Processing Group at the Imaging Processing Laboratory (IPL). He received the B.Sc. (with first-class honors), M.Sc., and Ph.D. (summa cum laude) degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 2000, 2002 and 2008, respectively. He was the recipient of the National Award for Electronic Engineering by the Spanish Ministry of Education. He has completed different doctoral and postdoctoral stays at prestigious research centers (ESA, DLR, DTU).

He is a senior researcher of the Image and Signal Processing (ISP, isp.uv.es) group at the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), where his research focuses on machine learning and image processing, particularly in the application domains of remote sensing data analysis and multispectral image processing. He conducts and supervises research on these topics within the framework of many national and international projects. He has been involved in many national projects with public funds, many international projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), and by the EU. In particular, he has leaded the development of the cloud detection algorithms for PROBA/CHRIS, ENVISAT MERIS & AATSR, Proba-V, SPOT-VGT, Landsat-8/9, and Sentinel-2, instruments in the frame of several projects. He was the recipient of the Google Earth Engine Award 2015, which was used to fund the 'Cloud detection in the Cloud' project. He is member of the ESA Proba-V Quality Working Group and he has developed the operational cloud detection algorithms implemented in the SPOT-VGT archive reprocessing and Proba-V ground segment.

He is the author (or coauthor) of more than 75 international journal papers (JCR), more than 160 international conference papers, and several international book chapters. He holds a Hirsch's h index h=50 (Google Scholar). He is referee of many international journals and conferences such as IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Pattern Analysis & Applications, Computers & Geo-sciences, etc.

Visit http://www.uv.es/chovago and http://isp.uv.es for more information.

LOPEZ GARCIA, MARIA JOSE

LOPEZ GARCIA, MARIA JOSE

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

(9639) 83898

maria.j.lopez@uv.es

MARTINEZ DIAZ, BEATRIZ

MARTINEZ DIAZ, BEATRIZ

PDI-Titular d'Universitat

Facultad de Física Edificio C Dr. Moliner, 50 46100 Burjassot (Valencia)

(9635) 43113

beatriz.martinez@uv.es

Biography
 

She holds a Degree in Physics from the University of Valencia (1994–1999) and obtained her PhD in Physics in July 2006 from the University of Valencia (UV). Since 2000, she has carried out teaching and research activities in the Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics at UV, except for the period from June 2001 to June 2002, during which she completed a one-year stay at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy), specifically in the Forest Fires Unit. Her continued participation in the Remote Sensing Research Unit (UIT), currently the Environmental Remote Sensing Group of the University of Valencia (UV-ERS), and in the department has included roles as a Research Fellow (2000–2004), Researcher since 2004, and Adjunct Professor in both the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Economics over several academic years. She served as Assistant Professor (Ayudante Doctor) in the Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics in the Faculty of Physics at the University of Valencia from 2021 to 2025 and is currently a Tenured Professor in the same department. In addition, she has been part of the founding team of the spin-off company EOLAB, SL (https://eolab.es/) since 2007.

Her main research areas have focused on the estimation and validation of biophysical products (fAPAR, LAI, and FVC) derived from satellite imagery, the development of methodologies to detect vegetation changes by combining long satellite time series with wavelet and embedding techniques, and more recently, the development of carbon flux products derived from low-spatial-resolution satellites. She has participated in operational European initiatives for land surface monitoring within the LSA SAF project (EUMETSAT), as well as in various Spanish projects such as ÁRTEMIS (CGL2008-00381/CLI), RESET CLIMATE (CGL2012-35831), ESCENARIOS (CGL2016-75239-R), and ECCE EO (PID2020-118036RB-I00), all of which are aimed at monitoring carbon fluxes in Spain.

MORENO MENDEZ, JOSE FELICISIMO

MORENO MENDEZ, JOSE FELICISIMO

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Laboratori de Processament d'Imatges Parque Cientifico de Paterna. Edificio 4, Planta 4. C/Catedratico Escardino 46980, Paterna (Valencia)

(9635) 43112

jose.moreno@uv.es

MORENO MARTINEZ, ALVARO

MORENO MARTINEZ, ALVARO

PI-Invest Cont Ramon y Cajal
NICLOS CORTS, RAQUEL

NICLOS CORTS, RAQUEL

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Programa de Doctorat

43308 (Dep.)

25500

raquel.niclos@uv.es

SANCHEZ RUIZ, SERGIO

SANCHEZ RUIZ, SERGIO

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
SORIA BARRES, GUILLEM PAU

SORIA BARRES, GUILLEM PAU

PDI-Titular d'Universitat

Global Change Unit (GCU) Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) - Despatx 3.3.4 Parc Científic de la Universitat de València Carrer Catedràtic José Beltran, 2 46980 Paterna (València), Spain

(9635) 44053

guillem.soria@uv.es

Biography
 

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ESTELLES LEAL, VICTOR

ESTELLES LEAL, VICTOR

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
UTRILLAS ESTEBAN, MARIA DEL PILAR

UTRILLAS ESTEBAN, MARIA DEL PILAR

PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat

Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Termodinámica Facultad de Física, Bloque C, 3er piso. Despacho 3307 Campus de Burjassot https://www.uv.es/grsv

(9635) 43123

maria.p.utrillas@uv.es

FRANCH GRAS, BELEN

FRANCH GRAS, BELEN

PDI-Titular d'UniversitatDirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial

C/ Catedràtic José Beltran Martinez, 2 46980, Paterna Despatx: 3.9.3

(9635) 43229

belen.franch@uv.es

JIMENEZ MUÑOZ, JUAN CARLOS

JIMENEZ MUÑOZ, JUAN CARLOS

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatDirector/a de Departament

Image Processing Laboratory C/ Catedratico Jose Beltran 2 46980 Paterna. Valencia. Spain

(9635) 43781

juancar.jimenez@uv.es