Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Emilio Chuvieco is Professor of Geography at the University of Alcalá and director of the UAH chair of environmental ethics. He directs the master's degree in Geographic Information Technologies and coordinates the Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group. He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Berkeley, Cambridge, Santa Barbara, Maryland, and the Canadian Center for Remote Sensing. He has coordinated 34 projects and 23 research contracts. He has directed 39 doctoral theses. He is the author of 33 books and 398 scientific articles. He has an h-index of 59 according to Scopus and 77 according to Google Scholar) (data for 12.23..2021). He has 6 recognized six-year research periods and 1 transfer period. He has been president of the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing and of the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. He has been scientific leader of the Fire CCI project of the European Space Agency since 2010, and scientific coordinator of the European project FirEUrisk. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. Co-senior editor of Remote Sensing of Environment from 2015 to March 2020.