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Hugo Costa is Professor of the Practice at NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) and works at Direção-Geral do Território (DGT). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Geographical Information Science (University of Nottingham, UK). His main research area is remote sensing, in particular image classification for land cover mapping, along with ecological modelling. He is the author of >40 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in scientific journals, international conference proceedings, and one book section.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Hugo Alexandre Gomes da Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Hugo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D11A-EEB5-5E16
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6207-8223
Google Scholar ID
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Scopus Author Id
55258143600

Email addresses

  • hcosta@dgterritorio.pt (Professional)
  • hcosta@novaims.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 PhD Geographical Information Science (Science) (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
"Integrating the user's perspective into object-based land cover mapping" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2009
Concluded
 Ciências e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
"Estratégia multi-temporal para produção automática de cartografia de ocupação do solo com imagens AWiFS" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2005
Concluded
 Engenharia Biofísica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Modelação do crescimento da área urbana do município de Girona (Espanha)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/01/16 - 2018/12/15 Researcher (Research) European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra Sector, Italy
2016/10/01 - 2017/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Direção-Geral do Território, Portugal
2012/10 - 2016/07 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
University of Nottingham School of Geography, United Kingdom
2011/03/15 - 2012/07/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/12/17 - Current Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Direção-Geral do Território, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/28 - Current Integrated Researcher (Non Resident) Universidade Nova de Lisboa MagIC, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Portuguese trainee. Support to the Forest Carbon Tracking task of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO): Production and management of GI in GIS - Coordination of data acquisition plans. ESA Centre for Earth Observation, Italy
2007/08/15 - 2008/12/31 Collaborator in project COSMIC-Cartografia multi-escala de ocupação do solo. Main activities: Development of automatic methodologies for land cover mapping with AWiFS data.. Direção-Geral do Território, Portugal
2006/11/01 - 2007/08/14 Collaborator in project "Inventário nacional de mortalidade de sobreiro na fotografia aérea digital de 2004/2006". Main activities: Analysis of aerial images for automatic detection of cork oaks. Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2005/03/01 - 2007/07/31 Collaborator in the research project AGRO 768 "AgroReg - Regeneração natural e artificial do sobreiro e a gestão sustentável do montado". Main activities: Collection and management of field data. Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2005/03/01 - 2007/07/31 Collaborator in the research project POCI/CLT/60413/2004 "Vulnerabilidade do Montado de Sobro às Alterações Climáticas: uma abordagem de Modelação". Main activities: Measurement of cork samples. Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2006/03/01 - 2006/12/31 Collaborator in the Forest Management Plans of Contenda Forest Perimeter and Cabeção National Forest. Main activities: Forest inventory, data processing, mapping and plans elaboration. Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2006/05/01 - 2006/08/31 Collaborator in the 5th National Forest Inventory. Main activities: Quality control of the fieldwork collected by the field teams in Alentejo and Algarve.. Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2003/11/13 - 2004/05/13 GIS Technician. Main activities: Maintenance of the territorial information system of the city of Girona by updating and correcting the geographical database of rural and urban registration. Ajuntament de Girona, Spain
2003/05/01 - 2003/09/30 Intern and collaborator in the Municipal Environmental Plan of Vendas-Novas. Main activities: Production of land aptitude maps for various crops (cereals, oilseeds, etc.). Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/10/01 - 2016/06/30 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECTRAL INFORMATION, THEMATIC INFORMATION AND CARTOGRAPHIC SCALE ON REMOTELY SENSED DATA OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR LAND COVER MAPPING
SFRH/BD/77031/2011
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/01/01 - 2010/12/31 FORMAÇÃO NA ESA
SFRH/BEST/33477/2008
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - 2021/01/31 Um modelo sustentável de Ordenamento do Território para a prevenção dos incêndios rurais
PCIF/MOS/0046/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Agronomia Alimentos Ambiente e Paisagem, Portugal

Município de Leiria, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Direção-Geral do Território, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Costa, H.; Bettencourt, M.J.; Silva, C.M.N.; Teodósio, J.; Gil, A.; Silva, L.. "Invasive alien plants in the azorean protected areas: Invasion status and mitigation actions". 375-394. 2013.
Conference paper
  1. Ana Navarro; Tomás Castro; João Sá; João Catalão; Pedro Benevides; Hugo Costa; Mário Caetano. "The potential of SAR data for detecting deforestation in mountainous and sparse forested areas: the case of northern Portugal". 2023.
    10.1117/12.2678995
  2. Alves, A.; Moraes, D.; Barbosa, B.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Benevides, P.; Caetano, M.; Campagnolo, M.. "Exploring Spectral Data, Change Detection Information and Trajectories for Land Cover Monitoring over a Fire-Prone Area of Portugal". 2023.
    10.5220/0011993100003473
  3. Barbosa, Bruno; Rocha, Jorge; Costa, Hugo; Caetano, Mário. Corresponding author: Barbosa, Bruno. "Detecção automática de alterações de coberto vegetal em áreas de interface urbano-rural". Paper presented in XVII Coloquio Ibérico de Geografía, Salamanca, 2022.
  4. Moraes, D.; Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Caetano, M.. "Exploring Different Levels of Class Nomenclature in Random Forest Classification of Sentinel-2 Data". 2022.
    10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883798
  5. Molisse, G.; Emin, D.; Costa, H.. "Implementation of a Sentinel-2 Based Exploratory Workflow for the Estimation of Above Ground Biomass". 2022.
    10.1109/M2GARSS52314.2022.9839897
  6. Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Caetano, M.. "Mapping annual crops in Portugal with Sentinel-2 data". 2022.
    10.1117/12.2636125
  7. Costa, H.; Benevides, P.; Moreira, F.D.; Caetano, M.. "Detection and classification of changes in agriculture, forest, and shrublands for land cover map updating in Portugal". 2022.
    10.1117/12.2636127
  8. Moraes, Daniel; Costa, Hugo; Benevides, Pedro José Santos da Costa; Costa, H.; Machado, I.; Moreira, F.D.; Benevides, P.; Moraes, D.; Caetano, M.. "EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF SENTINEL-2 DATA FOR TREE CROWN MAPPING IN OAK AGRO-FORESTRY SYSTEMS". Paper presented in International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Bruxelas, 2021.
    Accepted • 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553780
  9. Moraes, Daniel; Costa, Hugo; Benevides, Pedro José Santos da Costa; Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Moraes, D.; Caetano, M.. "ANNUAL CROP CLASSIFICATION EXPERIMENTS IN PORTUGAL USING SENTINEL-2". Paper presented in International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Bruxelas, 2021.
    Accepted • 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9555009
  10. Moraes, D.; Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Caetano, M.; Moraes, Daniel; Costa, Hugo; Benevides, Pedro José Santos da Costa. "INFLUENCE OF SAMPLE SIZE IN LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY USING RANDOM FOREST AND SENTINEL-2 DATA IN PORTUGAL". Paper presented in International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Bruxelas, 2021.
    Accepted • 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553924
  11. Moraes, D.; Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Caetano, M.. "Assessment of the introduction of spatial stratification and manual training in automatic supervised image classification". 2021.
    10.1117/12.2599740
  12. Moraes, D.; Benevides, P.; Moreira, F.D.; Costa, H.; Caetano, M.. "Exploring the use of classification uncertainty to improve classification accuracy". 2021.
    10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2021-81-2021
  13. Benevides, P.; Silva, N.; Costa, H.; Moreira, F.D.; Moraes, D.; Castelli, M.; Caetano, M.. "Land cover mapping at national scale with Sentinel-2 and LUCAS: A case study in Portugal". 2021.
    10.1117/12.2598789
  14. Los, H.; Mendes, G.S.; Cordeiro, D.; Grosso, N.; Costa, H.; Benevides, P.; Caetano, M.. "EVALUATION OF XGBOOST AND LGBM PERFORMANCE IN TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATION WITH SENTINEL-2 DATA". 2021.
    10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553031
  15. Costa, H.; Giraldo, A.; Caetano, M.. "Exploring BFAST to detect forest changes in Portugal". 2020.
    10.1117/12.2566669
  16. Hernandez, I.; Benevides, P.; Costa, H.; Caetano, M.. "Exploring sentinel-2 for land cover and crop mapping in portugal". 2020.
    10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2020-83-2020
  17. Costa, H.; Benevides, P.; Marcelino, F.; Caetano, M.. "INTRODUCING AUTOMATIC SATELLITE IMAGE PROCESSING into LAND COVER MAPPING by PHOTO-INTERPRETATION of AIRBORNE DATA". 2020.
    10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W11-29-2020
  18. Silva, L.D.; Costa, H.; de Azevedo, E.B.; Medeiros, V.; Alves, M.; Elias, R.B.; Silva, L.. "Modelling native and invasive woody species: A comparison of ENFA and MaxEnt applied to the Azorean forest". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-55236-1_20
  19. Costa, Hugo; Hugo Carrão; Mário Catano; Bacao, Fernando. "Land cover classification in Portugal with multitemporal AWiFS images: a comparative study". Paper presented in 28th Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories, Istanbul, 2008.
    Published • 10.3233/978-1-58603-986-8-356
Conference poster
  1. Frank Martin Seifert; Costa, Hugo; Ake Rosenqvist; Tom Holm; Yves Crevier. "Coordination of space data acquisition in support of GEO Forest Carbon Tracking". Paper presented in ESA Living Planet Symposium, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Daniel Moraes; Bruno Barbosa; Hugo Costa; Francisco D. Moreira; Pedro Benevides; Mário Caetano; Manuel Campagnolo. "Continuous forest loss monitoring in a dynamic landscape of Central Portugal with Sentinel-2 data". International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103913.
    10.1016/j.jag.2024.103913
  2. Cidália C. Fonte; Diogo Duarte; Ismael Jesus; Hugo Costa; Pedro Benevides; Francisco Moreira; Mário Caetano. "Accuracy Assessment and Comparison of National, European and Global Land Use Land Cover Maps at the National Scale—Case Study: Portugal". Remote Sensing (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16091504.
    10.3390/rs16091504
  3. Diogo Duarte; Cidália Fonte; Hugo Costa; Mário Caetano. "Thematic Comparison between ESA WorldCover 2020 Land Cover Product and a National Land Use Land Cover Map". Land (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020490.
    10.3390/land12020490
  4. Hugo Costa; Pedro Benevides; Francisco D. Moreira; Daniel Moraes; Mario Caetano. "Spatially Stratified and Multi-Stage Approach for National Land Cover Mapping Based on Sentinel-2 Data and Expert Knowledge". Remote Sensing (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/8/1865.
    10.3390/rs14081865
  5. Bruno Barbosa; Jorge Rocha; Hugo Costa; Mário Caetano. "Uncovering Vegetation Changes in the Urban–Rural Interface through Semi-Automatic Methods". Applied Sciences 12 5 (2022): 2294-2294. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12052294.
    10.3390/app12052294
  6. Barbosa, Bruno; Rocha, Jorge; Costa, Hugo; Caetano, Mário; Barbosa, B.; Rocha, J.; Costa, H.; Caetano, M.. "Automatic detection of vegetation cover changes in urban-rural interface areas". MethodsX 9 (2022): 101643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101643.
    10.1016/j.mex.2022.101643
  7. Chris J. Chandler; Geertje M. F. van der Heijden; Doreen S. Boyd; Mark E. J. Cutler; Hugo Costa; Reuben Nilus; Giles M. Foody; Mat Disney; Karen Anderson. "Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses". Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.197.
    10.1002/rse2.197
  8. Gencer Sumbul; Arne de Wall; Tristan Kreuziger; Filipe Marcelino; Hugo Costa; Pedro Benevides; Mario Caetano; Begum Demir; Volker Markl. "BigEarthNet-MM: A Large-Scale, Multimodal, Multilabel Benchmark Archive for Remote Sensing Image Classification and Retrieval [Software and Data Sets]". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 9 3 (2021): 174-180. https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2021.3089174.
    10.1109/MGRS.2021.3089174
  9. Berhane, T.M.; Costa, H.; Lane, C.R.; Anenkhonov, O.A.; Chepinoga, V.V.; Autrey, B.C.. "The influence of region of interest heterogeneity on classification accuracy in wetland systems". Remote Sensing 11 5 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062943852&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/rs11050551
  10. Costa, H.; Almeida, D.; Vala, F.; Marcelino, F.; Caetano, M.. "Land cover mapping from remotely sensed and auxiliary data for harmonized official statistics". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7 4 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046464666&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/ijgi7040157
  11. Costa, Hugo; Costa, H.; Foody, G.M.; Boyd, D.S.. "Supervised methods of image segmentation accuracy assessment in land cover mapping". Remote Sensing of Environment 205 (2018): 338-351. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425717305734.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.024
  12. Hugo Costa; Giles M. Foody; Doreen S. Boyd. "Using mixed objects in the training of object-based image classifications". Remote Sensing of Environment 190 (2017): 188-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.017.
    10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.017
  13. Costa, H.; Foody, G.M.; Jiménez, S.; Silva, L.. "Impacts of species misidentification on species distribution modeling with presence-only data". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4 4 (2015): 2496-2518. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84952802470&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/ijgi4042496
  14. Costa, H.; Ponte, N.B.; Azevedo, E.B.; Gil, A.. "Fuzzy set theory for predicting the potential distribution and cost-effective monitoring of invasive species". Ecological Modelling 316 (2015): 122-132. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940530066&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.07.034
  15. Costa, H.; Foody, G.M.; Boyd, D.S.. "Integrating user needs on misclassification error sensitivity into image segmentation quality assessment". Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81 6 (2015): 451-459. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930066941&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.14358/PERS.81.6.451
  16. Costa, H.; Carrão, H.; Bação, F.; Caetano, M.. "Combining per-pixel and object-based classifications for mapping land cover over large areas". International Journal of Remote Sensing 35 2 (2014): 738-753. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892975526&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/01431161.2013.873151
  17. Costa, H.; Medeiros, V.; Azevedo, E.B.; Silva, L.. "Evaluating ecological-niche factor analysis as a modelling tool for environmental weed management in island systems". Weed Research 53 3 (2013): 221-230. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877154039&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/wre.12017
  18. Costa, H.; Aranda, S.C.; Lourenço, P.; Medeiros, V.; Azevedo, E.B.D.; Silva, L.. "Predicting successful replacement of forest invaders by native species using species distribution models: The case of Pittosporum undulatum and Morella faya in the Azores". Forest Ecology and Management 279 (2012): 90-96. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862648526&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.022
Report
  1. GOMES DA COSTA HUGO; DE RIGO DANIELE; LIBERTA' GIORGIO; DURRANT TRACY; SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ JESUS. 2020. European wildfire danger and vulnerability under a changing climate: towards integrating risk dimensions. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/a64355fd-99c1-11ea-aac4-01aa75ed71a1.
  2. Hazeu, G.W.; Vittek, Marian; Kosztra, B.; Bock, M.; Kleeschulte, S.; Costa, H.; Caetano, M.; Marcelino, F.; Smith, G.M.. 2020. Task 2: Analysis of the MS replies to the EEA request for inventorying existing LU information in the countries : D2 - Report containing an assessment of the LU inventory by MS, including an assessment on the impact of existing / missing LU parameters for the creation of CLC+ LULUCF and Legacy instances.
  3. A. Olasz ; Barbara Kosztra; Costa, Hugo. 2020. Final report on Action: National Land Use data review – Gaps and follow-up actions.
  4. SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ JESUS; DURRANT HOUSTON TRACY; BOCA ROBERTO; LIBERTA' GIORGIO; BRANCO ALFREDO; DE RIGO DANIELE; FERRARI DAVIDE; et al. 2018. Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2017. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/77307262-ba25-11e8-99ee-01aa75ed71a1.
  5. SAN-MIGUEL-AYANZ JESUS; COSTA HUGO; DE RIGO DANIELE; LIBERTA' GIORGIO; ARTES VIVANCOS TOMAS; DURRANT HOUSTON TRACY; NUIJTEN DANIEL; LOFFLER PETER; MOORE PETER. 2018. Basic criteria to assess wildfire risk at the pan-European level. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/1f320aa0-1ec3-11e9-8d04-01aa75ed71a1.
  6. Mário Caetano; Cristina Igreja; Filipe Marcelino; Costa, Hugo. 2016. Estatísticas e dinâmicas territoriais multiescala de Portugal Continental 1995-2007-2010 com base na Carta de Uso e Ocupação do Solo (COS). https://www.dgterritorio.gov.pt/sites/default/files/documentos-publicos/2017-6-7-14-51-10-609__RTC-60.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Integrating the user's perspective into object-based land cover mapping". PhD, University of Nottingham School of Geography, 2016. https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/34288.
  2. Costa, Hugo Alexandre Gomes da. "Estratégia multi-temporal para produção automática de cartografia de ocupação do solo com imagens AWiFS". Master, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2347.
  3. "Modelação do Crescimento da Área Urbana do Município de Girona (Espanha)". Degree, Universidade de Évora, 2005.

Other

Other output
  1. BigEarthNet-MM: A large scale multi-modal multi-label benchmark archive for remote sensing image classification and retrieval. 2021. Sumbul, G.; De Wall, A.; Kreuziger, T.; Marcelino, F.; Costa, H.; Benevides, P.; Caetano, M.; Demir, B.; Markl, V.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85169221958&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arxiv.2105.07921
  2. Bigearthnet dataset with a new class-nomenclature for remote sensing image understanding. 2020. Sumbul, G.; Kang, J.; Kreuziger, T.; Marcelino, F.; Costa, H.; Benevides, P.; Caetano, M.; Demir, B.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85170770345&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arxiv.2001.06372
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Validação da utilização do CCDC em séries temporais Sentinel-2 para a deteção de desflorestação em Portugal: Confronto com dados históricos de gestão florestal
Co-supervisor of Filipe José Afonso Sabino de Sousa Louro
 Ciência e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2024 - Current Cartografar áreas ardidas, apoiado nas normas da nova COS
Supervisor of Gonçalo Miguel David Duque dos Reis
 Ciência de Dados e Métodos Analíticos Avançados (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2022 - 2024/12/13 Desenvolvimento e análise de um mapa de alterações da floresta portuguesa com base em dados Sentinel-2
Co-supervisor of António Tomás Oruguela Sequeira
 Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2023/08/01 - 2024/02/29 Multi-temporal geospatial analysis of flooding effects on crop production in Hadejia Local government area Jigawa state, Nigeria
Co-supervisor of Lukumon Olaitan Lateef
 Tecnologias Geoespaciais (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Soil moisture estimation of eucalyptus forests in Portugal with L-band SAR using polarimetric - Decompositions and machine learning
Co-supervisor of Daniel Thomas Erickson
 Tecnologias Geoespaciais (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Produção da Carta de Interfaces de Áreas Edificadas Conjuntural 2021 e elaboração de cenários alternativos ao produto oficial
Co-supervisor of Luís Filipe Pinto Penim
 Ciências e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2022 - 2022 LULC Map Comparison: Comparison and validation of land use land cover maps derived from satellite imagery
Supervisor of Fábio Miguel Domingues da Silva
 Tecnologias Geoespaciais (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/02/26 Above ground biomass and carbon sequestration estimation -Implementation of a sentinel-2 based exploratory workflow
Co-supervisor of Giulia Molisse
 Tecnologias Geoespaciais (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/02/28 Automatic Detection of Abrupt Changes in the Forest Cover of Portugal
Co-supervisor of Anny Lisseth Giraldo Solano
 Master of Science Programme Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics
Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Germany
2020 - 2020 Landcover and crop type classification with intra-annual times series of sentinel-2 and machine learning at central Portugal
Co-supervisor of Itzá Alejandra Hernández Sequeira
 Tecnologias Geoespaciais (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/12/19 Development of a forest clear-cut reference database for continental Portugal at Sentinel-2 resolution
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Inês Ingham Barros da Silveira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2024/12/13 Desenvolvimento e análise de um mapa de alterações da floresta portuguesa com base em dados Sentinel-2
Supervisor
 António Tomás Oruguela Sequeira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2024/11/13 Multi-season deep learning-based land cover classification using satellite images
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Afonso José Tripa Geraldo (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01/10 Mapeamento Mensal do Estado da Vegetação no Âmbito das Políticas Públicas de Dados Abertos do projeto SMOS: Mapas Intra-Anuais do Estado da Vegetação direcionados para o público em geral e produzidos com imagens Sentinel-2
(Thesis) Arguer
 Pedro Luis Pires Fernandes (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal
2022/03/02 High-resolution Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Sentinel-1 Data for Evaluating Regenerative Agriculture: A feasibility study from Alentejo, Portugal
(Thesis) Arguer
 Syver Jahren Petersen (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017/01/13 - Current Remote Sensing (2072-4292) MDPI
2014/02/16 - 2019/04/24 International Journal of Remote Sensing
2017/01/16 - 2019/01/19 Remote Sensing of Environment
2013/11/17 - 2018/11/13 Remote Sensing Letters
2017/11/06 - 2018/01/31 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
2016/03/30 - 2017/04/24 Biological Invasions
2017/01/14 - 2017/01/14 Plos One
2012/08/23 - 2016/12/17 Weed Research
2016/12/08 - 2016/12/08 International Journal of Digital Earth
2016/01/04 - 2016/06/01 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
2014/12/16 - 2014/12/16 Ecological Informatics

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/01 - Current Delegate of the European Space Programme Configuration Copernicus User Forum
Advisor / Consultant
 European Commission, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/10/01 - Current Remote Sensing (Mestrado) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
2019/01/03 - Current Deteção remota (Licenciatura) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Information Management School, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 Joint Research Centre’s Excellence Award in the category of Science for Policy (Long Standing Support)
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Belgium