Curriculum Vitae
(April 2009)
: identification
Name: João Manuel de Brito Carreiras
Born: 4th February, 1968, Almada, Portugal
Institutional address: Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Department of Natural Sciences, Rua
João de Barros 27, 1300-319 Lisboa, Portugal
Phone: + 351 213642729
Fax: + 351 213634238
E-mail: [email protected]
: academic qualifications
Ph.D., Forestry, “Evaluation of Land Cover Changes in the Amazon Basin using Remote
Sensing Data”, School of Agronomy (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon), 2005.
Undergraduation, Forestry, School of Agronomy (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon
(TULisbon), 1993.
: area of scientific activity and present research interests
Use of remote sensing data [e.g., multispectral/hyperspectral, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR),
and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)] for mapping and quantifying changes in the
species/community composition, biomass and structure of tropical, subtropical, and temperate
forests and woodlands, in relation to anthropogenic land use and climate change.
: employment and main activities/results
May 2008 – present: research fellow (May 2008 – present) at the Department of Natural
Sciences, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Lisbon (Portugal).
Australia: to advance, adapt and test several empirical and semi-empirical algorithms to
predict forest biomass from the spaceborne Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS)
Phased Array L-band SAR (PALSAR) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Airborne
SAR (AIRSAR) sensors in Queensland (Australia); mapping Queensland (Australia) forest
structural types using ALOS PALSAR data.
June 2007 – April 2008: postdoctoral fellow (June 2007 – April 2008) at the Department of
Natural Sciences, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Lisbon (Portugal) and Aberystwyth
University, Aberystwyth (Wales, UK).
Australia: pre-processing and geocoding of ALOS PALSAR data; relationships between
ALOS PALSAR backscatter (dual polarization, HH and HV) and forest biomass aimed at
estimating woodland savannas carbon stocks.
Portugal: modelling and understanding forest fire occurrence as a function of
environmental and site-specific dendrometric variables, with a view to enhanced integration
of forest and fire management planning activities.
September 1997 – May 2007: research associate at the Department of Forestry, School of
Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon) (Portugal).
Portugal: relationship between spectral measures derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper
(TM) data and cork oak woodlands canopy cover; methods to build a short-term fire risk
map for Portugal; burnt area database for Portugal (1984-2004), intended for understanding
fire incidence (e.g., topography, land cover, protected areas), and fire frequency; post-fire
shrub biomass accumulation curve in relation to the number of years since the last fire (i.e.,
the age of the regenerating vegetation), which could be used for fuel management; hightemporal resolution optical remote sensing data to estimate fuel moisture content; predictive
capability of pre-fire fuel greenness and moisture spectral measurements temporal profiles
for spatial burnt area distribution; long- and short-term fire risk map for Portugal, aimed at
establishing priorities for forest and civil protection at national-level, namely, pre-positioning
of fire fighting personnel and equipment, routing of ground patrols, and early managing of
lookout towers; methods to identify priority areas for fire preventive silviculture, and shrub
management, aimed at containing the progression of large fires; undergraduate teaching.
Brazil: Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), LBA LC06
group (Huete/Shimabukuro); algorithms to produce SPOT-4 VEGETATION monthly
composite images for the Brazilian Legal Amazon; machine learning algorithms to map land
cover classes in the Brazilian Legal Amazon; extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary
succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon for the year 2000.
September 1995 – August 1997: Junior Engineer at Silviconsultores – Environment and
Natural Resources, Ltd., Lisbon (Portugal).
Portugal: Business administration and management; coordinator of several County Forest
Plans (PMIFs); multi-temporal analysis of aerial photographs to evaluate small-scale oak
woodlands deforestation; coordinator of a Geographic Information System (GIS) Basic
Course, for the Portuguese Paper Industry Association (CELPA).
March 1993 – August 1995: research assistant at the Department of Forestry, School of
Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon) (Portugal).
Portugal: main spatial patterns of fire incidence during the 1980s; dimensional relations to
simplify prediction of total plant biomass, in Mediterranean shrublands, as well as biomass
in the 1-hour, 10-hour, and 100-hour timelag size classes; allometric relationships to
estimate Blue Gum Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus Labill) leaf area.
: reviewer
Remote Sensing of Environment, Forest Ecology and Management, Environmental Monitoring
and Assessment, Advances in Space Research.
: publications
Thesis
Carreiras, J.M.B. (2005). Evaluation of Land Cover Changes in the Amazon Basin using
Remote Sensing Data. Ph.D. thesis in Forestry. School of Agronomy, Technical University of
Lisbon, Lisbon.
Chapters in books
Tenhunen, J., Geyer, R., Carreiras, J.M.B., Dinh, N.Q., Besson, C., Ribeiro, N., Otieno, D., &
Pereira, J.S. (2009). Simulating function and vulnerability of cork oak woodland ecosystems. In
Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge. Ecology, Adaptive Management, and Restoration, pp. 227234 . J. Aronson, J.S. Pereira, & J.G. Pausas, eds., Island Press, Washington, D.C..
Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., Silva, J.M.N., & Vasconcelos, M.J. (2006). Alguns conceitos
básicos sobre os fogos rurais em Portugal. In Incêndios Florestais em Portugal: Caracterização,
Impactes e Prevenção, pp. 133-161. J.S. Pereira, J.M.C. Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N. Silva, &
T.P. Silva, eds., ISAPress, Lisboa.
Pereira, J.M.C., Sá, A.C.L., Sousa, A.M.O., Silva, J.M.N., Santos, T.N. e Carreiras, J.M.B.
(1999). Spectral characterisation and discrimination of burnt areas. In Remote Sensing of Large
Wildfires in the European Mediterranean Basin, pp 123-138. E. Chuvieco, ed., Ecological
Studies Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees
Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., e Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2006). Land cover mapping in the
Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data and machine learning classification
methods. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 72(8), 897-910.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Campagnolo, M.L., & Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2006). Assessing
the extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon
using SPOT VEGETATION data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 101, 283-298.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., & Pereira, J.S. (2006). Estimation of tree canopy cover in
evergreen oak woodlands using remote sensing. Forest Ecology and Management, 223, 45-53.
Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2005). SPOT-4 VEGETATION multitemporal compositing
for land cover change studies over tropical regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing,
26(7), 1323-1346.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Shimabukuro, Y.E., & Stroppiana, D. (2003). Evaluation of
compositing algorithms over the Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(17), 3427-3440.
Carreiras, J.M.B., Shimabukuro, Y.E., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2002). Fraction images derived from
SPOT-4 VEGETATION data to assess land-cover change over the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(23), 4979-4983.
Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Vasconcelos, M.J.P. (1998). Exploratory data analysis of
the spatial distribution of wildfires in Portugal, 1980-1989. Geographical Systems, 5(4):355-390.
Pereira, J.M.C., Tomé, M.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Tomé, J.A., Pereira, J.S., David, J.S., &
Fabião, A.M.D. (1997). Leaf area estimation from tree alometrics in Eucalyptus globulus
plantations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 27:166-173.
Pereira, J.M.C., Sequeira, N.M.S., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (1995). Structural properties and
dimensional relations of some mediterranean shrub fuels. International Journal of Wildland Fire,
5(1):35-42.
Papers in conference proceedings
Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Proisy, C., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). ALOS PALSAR applications
in the tropics and subtropics: characterisation, mapping and detecting change in forests and
coastal wetlands. Proceedings of the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for
ALOS Science Program, Rhodes (Greece), 3-7 November 2008,.
Lucas, R., Lee, A., Armston, J., Breyer, J., Bunting, P., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (2008). Advances in
Forest Characterisation, Mapping and Monitoring Through Integration of LiDAR and other
Remote Sensing Datasets. Proceedings of Silvilaser 2008: 8th international conference on
LiDAR applications in forest assessment and inventory, Edinburgh (UK), 17-19 September
2008.
Armston, J., Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F. (2008). Integration of Landsat and
ALOS PALSAR for Mapping Vegetation Structure in Queensland. Proceedings of the 14th
Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC), Darwin, Northern
Territory (Australia), 29 September – 3 October 2008.
Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., & Armston, J. (2007). ALOS PALSAR for
characterizing wooded savannas in Northern Australia. Proceedings of the First Joint PI
Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, Kyoto (Japan), 19-23 November
2007.
Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., & Armston, J. (2007). Pre-processing and
geocoding of ALOS PALSAR data over Queensland, Australia. Proceedings of the First Joint PI
Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, Kyoto (Japan), 19-23 November
2007.
Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). An inductive fire risk map for Portugal. Proceedings
of the 5th International Conference on Forest Fire Research. Figueira da Foz, Portugal, 27-30
November 2006, ADAI/CEIF (in CD-ROM).
Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Campagnolo, M.L., & Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2005). A land
cover map for the Brazilian Legal Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data and machine
learning algorithms. Anais XII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Goiânia, Brasil,
16-21 April 2005, INPE, pp. 457-464.
Shimabukuro, Y.E., Carreiras, J.M.B., Anderson, L.O., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2004). Monitoring
land cover and land cover changes in Mato Grosso state, Brazilian Amazon, using SPOTnd
VEGETATION and Terra-MODIS data. Proceedings of the 2 International VEGETATION User
Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 24-26 March 2004, JRC/EU, pp. 361-367.
Oral communications
Lucas, R.M., Armston, J., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). Regional Characterisation
and Mapping of Australian Forest Structural Types from ALOS PALSAR data. Communication
presented at the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program,
3-7 November 2008, Rhodes, Greece.
Lucas, R.M., Armston, J., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). Scaling of Forest Biomass
and Structural Attributes through Integration of ALOS PALSAR data: Case Studies from
Australia. Communication presented at the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes
for ALOS Science Program, 3-7 November 2008, Rhodes, Greece.
Borges, J.G., Cantarinha, A., Califórnia, I., Marques, S., Botequim, B., Carreiras, J.M.B.,
Moreira, F., Pereira, J.M.C., Oliveira, M.M., & Mexia, J.T. (2008). Assessing fire risk for
enhanced forested landscape analysis and planning in Portugal. Communication presented at
the EFI Annual Conference, EFIMED Business Meeting and Scientific Seminar 2008, 15-20
September 2008, Orvieto, Italy.
Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., Armston, J., & Clewley, D. (2008). Forest
parameter retrieval from SAR intensity data. Communication presented at the 28th International
Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 6-11 July 2008, Boston (MA), USA.
Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Oliveira, S. (2007). The impact of fire on carbon
sequestration. Communication presented at the Conference “The Value of the Portuguese
Forest in the Carbon Credit Market”, 28 March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pereira, J.M.C., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (2007). How Wildfire Risk is Mapped in Portugal: a Naïf,
Flawed, and Very Effective Approach. Communication presented at the Workshop SEER 2007
“Statistical Extremes and Environmental Risks”, 17 February 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). Long- and Short-term Forest Fire Risk Maps.
Communication presented at the Workshop “Forest Fires”, 26 May 2006, Mirandela, Portugal.
Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). Rural Fires in Portugal. Communication presented
at the Seminar “Fire Investigation”, 6 May 2006, Almada, Portugal.
Other publications
Pereira, J.S., Afonso, A.F., Guerreiro, L., Santos, J.L., Carreiras, J.M.B., Leitão, A.G. (2006). A
Reflection about Prevention and Fighting Systems of Forest Fires. National Council of the
Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS), Lisboa.