CURRICULUM VITAE
Maria José Alves do Rio Perestrelo de Vasconcelos
Lisbon, April 10th 2011
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Maria J. Perestrelo de VASCONCELOS
Birth Date: March 23rd, 1963
Morada: Rua Elias Garcia 32, 3º 1495-204 Algés
Tel: +351213616340 ext209 (IICT),
+351214109291 (Home), +35113849518 (Cell)
Mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2004
Agregação (Habil.) Department of Forestry, Institute of Agronomy – Technical
University of Lisbon.
1993
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Renewable Natural Resource Studies, University
of Arizona USA - Advanced Resource Technology Laboratory and Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Equivalence to the degree of Doutor
by the Technical University of Lisbon, June of 1994.
1988
Master of Science Watershed Management, University of Arizona USA
1986
Licenciatura Forestry, Institute of Agronomy - Technical University of Lisbon.
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010
Best paper award for EvoIASP - EvoApplications 2010, the Conference on
Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Istanbul 7 – 10 de April de 2010.
2008
CarboVeg-GB – Quantification of carbon stocks and sinks in the forests of
Guinea-Bissau (Dez 2008). Project selected to the Side Event in COP14 –
United Nations Climate Change Conference, Poznan-Poland.
2002
Second Place- 2002 ESRI Award for the best scientific paper in GIS.
American Association for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
1996
NATO Fellowship Grant for a 5 month period of study at the Space
Applications Institute (Monitoring Tropical Vegetation Unit), Joint Research
Centre, Ispra Italy.
1990
Scholarship from the National Board of Science and Technology- program
CIENCIA for a three year Ph.D. program at the University of Arizona.
1990
Grant from the Luso American Foundation for participation in a professional
conference in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1988
Fulbright grant for professional enrichment.
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1988
Fulbright grant for participation in a professional conference. Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
1986
Scholarship from the Luso-American Foundation, for a two year Masters
program at the University of Arizona.
1986
Fulbright travel grant to the University of Arizona.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2004 – to date, present Researcher with Habilitation at the Global Development Unit,
Tropical Research Institute of Portugal
1999 – 2003 Researcher at the Cartography Center of the Tropical Research Institute of
Portugal
1995 – to date, Member of the Forestry Studies Center of the Institute of Agronomy,
University of Lisbon
1997 - 1999 Head of the Forestry group at the National Centre for Geographic
Information (CNIG) in Lisbon
1996 NATO Research Fellow at the Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre
1995-1997 Assistant-Researcher (permanent staff) at CNIG since December 1995
1992 - 1995 Permanent staff as Assistant at CNIG
1990 Started collaboration with CNIG working in research projects in 1990
1989 – 1990 Environmental Impact Studies for Eucalyptus globulus plantations.
Department of Forestry, Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon 1989 - 1990.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
2007 - 2008 Vice-president of the Scientific Council of the Tropical Research Institute of
Portugal
2005
Member of the Direction Expanded to the Scientific Council of the Tropical
Research Institute
2004 -2006 Coordinator of the Natural Sciences Section of the Scientific Council of the
Tropical Research Institute of Portugal
2004 - 2006 Member of the coordinating committee of the Scientific Council of Tropical
Research Institute of Portugal IICT
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Principal investigator in projects:
2007 - 2010 CARBOVEG-GB – Quantification of carbon stocks and sinks in the forests of
Guinea-Bissau, funded by RELAC, Portuguese Environment Agency.
http://carboveg-gb.dpp.pt/
2004 - 2007 FIRELANDSCAPE - Spatio-temporal fire patterns in Portugal (1984-2003).
Impacts, risk assessment and fuel dynamics. Coordinator-IICT,
POCTI/AGG/44942/2002. A LUCC/IGBP endorsed project.
1996 - 1999 GEOFOGO – Simulation of fire spread. Ministry of Agriculture, PAMAF 9509-62530
1995 – 1996 IGNIT - Cartografia preditiva dos locais de ignição de fogos florestais na
Zona Centro de Portugal. PEAM7FF7148/94
Co-investigator in projects:
2010 – 2012 ENVI-GP - Im p roving Genetic Prog ra m m ing for the Envirom ent.
Coord ina tor - INESC , PTDC/EIA-CCO/103363/2008
2005 - 2008 CANTANHEZ Land cover changes and successional pathways in the forests
of Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau. Coordinator – IICT. Collaboration between
IICT, IST and Gabinete de Planificação Costeira (Guinea-Bissau). An
IGBP/LUCC endorsed project. POCTI/BIA-BDE/57965/2004. A LUCC/IGBP
endorsed project.
2005 - 2007 BRASIL - Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: multi-year mapping of area burned
and estimation of pyrogenic emissions using remotely sensed data.
Coordinator – IICT, Start date: Jan 2005 POCTI-CTA45126/2002
2005 - 2006 REEQUIPA - Remote sensing of land surface biophysical parameters and
processes. IICT/ ICAT-Faculdade de Ciências- U. de Lisboa /CBAA- ISAUTL. Coordinator – IICT, POCTI/CTA45126/2002
2003 - 2006 GEOLAND - Land cover & Forest change, VI Framework Program.
Coordinator- Infoterra. SIP3-CT2003-502871
2002 - 2005 RETRO Reanalysis of the tropospheric chemical composition over the last 40
years. EC, EVK2-2001-00370. V Framework Program, Coordinator – Max
Planck Institute
2000 - 2002 Reduction of uncertainties of emissions of biomass burning in southern
Africa. SAPIENS/FCT. - 33582/99.
2000 - 2002 SAFARI 2000 – Portuguese participation in the Southern Africa Regional
Science Initiative, sponsored by Instituto para a Cooperação Científica e
Tecnológica Internacional and the Luso American Foundation.
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1999 - 2001 ORANGO – Assessment of land cover change (1956 – 1998) in Orango and
Caheu, Guiné Bissau, IUCN-1998, IICT, CNIG
1995 - 1998 STORMS - Silvicultural strategies for predicting damage to forests from wind,
fire, and snow, AIR3-CT94-2392 (DGXII), Coordinator – Macauley Institute
1995 - 1997 FIRES - Forest image processing supported by expert system, V Framework
Program EV5V-CT94-0476
1990 - 1994 Modelação dinâmica de incêndios florestais, projecto AGR/604/90, JNICT,
Os SIG na prevenção de incêndios florestais, projecto 89/NAT/1, INIC
(1989-1990), project AGR/604/90, JNICT (1990- 1991)
CONSULTING PROJECTS
2011
Quantification of the carbon stock contained in the natural vegetation of a
delimited area in Zambézia/Moçambique, according to the requisites of
Directive 2009/28/CE (RED). Collaboration with RSet. Client: Petrogal.
2010
Land use change analysis for REDD baselines scenario definition and carbon
stock assessment for REDD project. Consortium WinRock International, IICT
and Applied Geosolutions, LLC. Client: World Bank and Instituto para a
Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas, Guinea-Bissau
2008-2009 Plan de suivi des forest et mangroves de Guinée-Bissau. Consortium SCOT
C-S, France, IICT and Oreáde-Breche. Client: World Bank and Instituto para
a Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas da Guiné-Bissau.
1999- 2003 Burned area mapping in Portugal using Landsat imagery. Collaboration with
the Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Institute of Agronomy,
Lisbon. Client: Direcção Geral dos Recursos Florestais, Ministério da
Agricultura
PUBLICATIONS
1. Refereed Papers and Book chapters
Cabral, AI, MJ Vasconcelos and D Oom (2010). Spatial dynamics and quantification of
deforestation in the central-plateau woodlands of Angola (1990-2009), Applied Geography, 31
(2010), pp 1185 - 1193
Silva, S, MJ Vasconcelos and J. B. Melo (2010) Bloat free genetic programming versus
classification trees for identification of burned areas in satellite imagery. Evo* 2010 EvoApplications 2010, in Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoIASP-2010, pp. 272-281,
Springer.
Torres, J, J.C. Brito, M.J. Vasconcelos, L. Catarino, J. Gonçalves, J. Honrado (2010) Ensemble
models of habitat suitability relate chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) conservation to forest and
landscape dynamics in Western Africa. Biological Conservation, 143 pp 416-425
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de Zea Bermudez, P., J. Mendes, J.M.C. Pereira, K.F. Turkman e M.J.P. Vasconcelos (2009)
Spatial and temporal extremes of wildfire sizes in Portugal (1984-2004). International Journal of
Wildland Fire. pp. 983-991.
Mendes, J.M., P.C. Zea-Bermudez, J. Pereira, K.F. Turkman and M.J.Vasconcelos (2008) Spatial
extremes of wildfire sizes: Bayesian hierarchical models for extremes. Environmental and
Ecological Statistics, DOI 10.1007/s10651-008-0099-3
Mota, B, JMC Pereira, D. Oom, M.J. Vasconcelos and M. Schultz (2007) ESA ATSR-2 World Fire
Atlas (1997-2001). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, 1409-1424.
Cabral, A I, Maria Vasconcelos, JMC Pereira, E. Martins and E. Bartholomé (2006) Land cover
map of southern hemisphere Africa using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data. International Journal of
Remote Sensing, Vol 27, Nº 5-6, 1053-1074.
Vasconcelos, M.J (contributor) (2006) Cellular Automaton Vol.1 pp 101-102, Fire Vol. 1 pp 227232 , Vegetation Vol. 2 pp 638-642 in Geist, H (ed) Our Earth’s Changing Land – an
Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. 715p.
Mota, B.W., J.M.C. Pereira, D. Oom. M.J.P. Vasconcelos, and M. Schultz (2005) Screening the
ESA ATSR-2 World Fire Atlas (1997-2002) Atmospheric and Chemical Physics Discussions, 5
4641-4677
Nunes, MC, Maria J. Vasconcelos, J. M. C. Pereira, N. Dasgupta, R. Aldredge, and F. Rego
(2005) Land cover type and fire in Portugal. Do fires burn land selectively? Landscape Ecology,
20(6) 661 – 673.
Ntaimo, L., B.P. Zeigler, M. J. Vasconcelos and B. Khargharia (2004), Studying forest fire spread
and suppression in DEVS, Simulation, Vol. 80, No10, 479-500..
Silva, J.M.N., J.M.C. Pereira, A.I. Cabral, A. Sá, M.J.P. Vasconcelos, B. Mota and J.-M. Grégoire
(2003) The area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season. Journal of Geophysical
Research-Atmospheres, 108 ( D13) 8498, doi:10.1029/2002JD002320.
Sá, A.C.L., J.M.C. Pereira, M.J.P. Vasconcelos, J.M.N. Silva, N. Ribeiro, and A. Awasse (2003)
Assessing the feasibility of sub-pixel burned area mapping in miombo woodlands of northern
Mozambique using MODIS imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24 (8), 17831796.
Cabral, A., M. J. Vasconcelos, J.M.C. Pereira, E. Bartholomé and P. Mayaux (2003) Multitemporal
compositing approaches for SPOT-4 VEGETATION. International Journal of Remote Sensing ,
24 (16): 3343-3350 (Journal Cover).
Pereira, JS, AV Correia, AP Correia, JMC Pereira, AC Oliveira, H. Freitas, RM Reis, M Branco, MC
Caldeira, CS Cruz, M. Bugalho, and MJ Vasconcelos (2002) Forest and Biodiversity, in: Climate
Change in Portugal. Scenarios, Impacts and Adaptations Measures. Santos, FD, K.Forbes,
and R Moita (eds) pp.369-413. Gradiva, Lisboa.
Vasconcelos, M. J. Perestrelo, A. Gonçalves, F. X. Catry, J. S. Uva, and F. Barros (2002) A
working prototype of a dynamic geographical information system. International Journal of
Geographical Information Science, Vol 16, nº1, 69-91.
Vasconcelos, MJP, JC Mussá Biai, António Araújo, and M.A. Diniz (2002) Analysis of land cover
change in Guinea-Bissau. A contribution to the conservation and sustainable use of two protected
areas. Applied Geography,Vol 22, nº2, 139-156.
Pereira, J.M.C., S. Flasse, A. Hoffman, J.A.R. Pereira, F.González-Alonso, S. Trigg, M.J.P.
Vasconcelos, S. Bartalev, T.J. Lynham, G. Korovin, and B.S. Lee (2001) Operational use of
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remote sensing for fire management: regional case studies. In: Global and Regional Wildfire
Monitoring from Space: Planning a Coordinated International Effort, F. J. Ahern, J.
Goldammer, e C. Justice, editors, pp.47-70. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague, Netherlands.
Vasconcelos, M.J.P., S. Silva, M. Tomé, M. Alvim, and J.M.C. Pereira (2001)
Spatial prediction of fire ignition probabilities. Photogrammetric Engineering and
Remote Sensing. Vol 67, Nº1, pp.73-81
Pereira, J.M.C., M.J.P. Vasconcelos, and A.M. Sousa (2000) A rule-based system for burnt area
mapping in temperate and tropical regions using NOAA/AVHRR imagery. In: Innes, J.L., Verstraete,
M.M., and Beniston, M. (Eds.), Biomass Burning and its Inter-Relationships with the Climate
System, pp.215-232. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Pereira, J.M.C., B.S. Pereira, P.M. Barbosa, D. Stroppiana, M.J.P Vasconcelos, and J.-M.
Grégoire (1999) Satellite monitoring of the overall fire activity in the EXPRESSO study area during
the dry season experiment: active fires, burnt areas, and atmospheric emissions. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 104 (D23): 30701-30712.
Pereira, JMC, João M. B. Carreiras and Maria J. P. de Vasconcelos (1998) Exploratory data
analysis of the spatial distribution of wildfires in Portugal, 1980-1989. Geographical Systems, vol.
5 pp. 355-390.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo; José M. C. Pereira, and Bernard P. Zeigler (1995) Simulation of
fire growth using discrete event hierarchical modular models, EARSeL Advances in Remote
Sensing, vol. 4 nº3, pp 54-62.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo; Jose M.C.Pereira and Bernard P. Zeigler (1994) Simulation of
fire growth in mountain environments in Price, Martin and Ian Heywood (eds) Mountain
Environments Geographic Information Systems. Chapter 9, pp 167-185. Taylor and Francis,
London.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo, B.P. Zeigler, and Lee A. Graham (1993) Modelling multiscale spatial dynamic ecological processes under the discrete event systems paradigm.
Landscape Ecology Vol8 No.4 pp.273-286.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo and B. P. Zeigler (1993) Simulation of forest landscape response
to fire disturbances. Ecological Modelling, 65 pp.177-198.
Vasconcelos, M J. and D.P. Guertin (1992) FIREMAP-simulation of fire growth with a geographic
information system. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2, pp.87-96.
2. Proceedings with Extended Abstract refereed
Oom, D, P. Lourenço, A. Cabral, MJ. Vasconcelos, L. Catarino and V. Cassamá (2009)
Quantification of deforestation rates in Guinea-Bissau – A baseline for carbon trading under REDD.
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ISRSE 33 International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. May 4-8, 2009.
Cabral, A., M.J. Vasconcelos, D. Oom, and R. Sardinha (2009). Deforestation or regrowth? A
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quantification of forest extension in the Miombo of Angola for the period 1990 – 2000. ISRSE 33
International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. May 4-8, 2009.
Lourenço, P., A. Cabral, D. Oom, M.J. Vasconcelos, L. Catarino and M. Temudo (2009) Re-growth
of mangrove forests of Guinea-Bissau. ISRSE 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing
of Environment. May 4-8, 2009
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Silva, J.M.N. M.P. Temudo, M.P. Vasconcelos, D. Oom (2009) Shifting cultivation and forest cover
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change in the tropics: the case of Niassa, Mozambique. ISRSE 33 International Symposium on
Remote Sensing of Environment. May 4-8, 2009
Vasconcelos, M J, Filipe Catry, António Gonçalves and José S. Uva (2001) Application of Geofogo
in central Portugal. In Proceedings of the Workshop: Tools and methodologies for fire danger
mapping. UTAD, Vila-Real 9-14 Março de 2001. pp. 90-105.
Vasconcelos, M.J.P., A. Gonçalves, and F. Barros (2000) Dynamic Maps. In CD- ROM of the
Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Planning Conference, March 6-8, 2000. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
17 pp.
Vasconcelos, M J P; J C Uva Paúl, S Silva, J M C Pereira, M S Caetano, F X Catry and T Oliveira
(1998) Regional fuel mapping using a knowledge based system approach. Proceedings of the III
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International Conference on Forest Fire Research – 14 Conference on Fire and Forest
Meteorology. Nov 16 – 20, Luso, Portugal. Pp. 2111 – 2123.
Vasconcelos, M J P; J C Uva Paúl, and A. Gonçalves (1998) GEOFOGO- Testing a forest fire
simulation system. Abstract in Proceedings of the III International Conference on Forest Fire
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Research – 14 Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology. Nov 16 – 20, Luso, Portugal. Pp. 889890.
Caetano, M., J. Paúl, T. Oliveira, J. Pereira and M.J. Vasconcelos (1997). Forest understory
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characterisation with Landsat TM data. Proceedings of the 23 Annual Conference and Exhibition
of the Remote Sensing Society. The University of Reading, 2-4 September, 1997, pp. 112-117.
Caetano, M., T. Oliveira, J. Paúl, M. Vasconcelos and J.M.C. Pereira, (1997). Mapping shrublands
and forests with multispectral satellite images based on spectral unmixing of scene components.
Proceedings of the European Symposium on Aerospace Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for
Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology. IEE, London, United Kingdom, 22-26 September, 1997,
pp. 4-14.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo; José M. C. Pereira, and Bernard P. Zeigler (1995) Simulation of
fire growth using discrete event hierarchical modular models, in Proceedings of the International
Workshop Satellite Technology and GIS for Mediterranean Forest Mapping and Fire Management,
Tessaloniki, 4-6 Nov 1993 pp195-207.
Pereira, J. M. C, L. Cadete and Maria J. P. de Vasconcelos (1994) An assessment of the potential
of NOAA/AVHRR HRPT imagery for burned area mapping in Portugal. Abstract in Proceedings of
the Second International Conference on Forest Fire Research. Coimbra 21-24 Novemver 1994, pp
665-666
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo, Paulo Barbosa, Mario Caetano, Jose M.C. Pereira (1994)
Spatially distributed estimation of forest fire ignition probabilities. Abstract in Proceedings of the
Second International Conference on Forest Fire Research. Coimbra 21-24 November 1994, pp
647-648
Vasconcelos, M.J. and J.M.C. Pereira (1991) Spatial dynamic fire behavior simulation as an aid to
forest planning and management. Proceedings of the Symposium Fire and the Environment.
Knoxville, Tennessee, March 20-24 1990. General Technical Report SE-69. USDA Forest Service,
pp.421-426.
Pereira, J.M.C.; and M.J. Vasconcelos (1990) Fire propagation modeling in heterogeneous
environemnts and a new spread algorithm for FIREMAP. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Forest Fire Research. University of Coimbra, November 19-22, 1990, Coimbra.
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Ball G.; D.P. Guertin and M.J. Vasconcelos (1990) FIREMAP - a dynamic fire modelling
system.Proceedings of the International Conference on Forest Fire Research. University of
Coimbra, November 19-22, 1990, Coimbra.
Vasconcelos, M.J.; D.P. Guertin and M.J. Zwolinski (1990) FIREMAP: simulation of fire behavior
with a geographic information system. In: Effects of fire management of southwestern natural
resources. General Technical report RM-191, USDA Forest Service. pp. 217-221
Vasconcelos, Maria J. (1988) Landscape pattern analysis with a geographic information system.
Abstract In: Observations Across Scales: Function and Management of Landscapes. Third Annual
Landscape Ecology Symposium. University of New Mexico, March 16-19.
3. Non-refereed Papers
J. Torres, M.J. Vasconcelos, L. Catarino, J. Honrado (2007) Landscape change and habitat
suitability for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau (Western Africa). Poster,
2007 IALE Congress, 8-12 Julho 2007, Wageningen, Holanda.
Pereira JMC, J.M.B. Carreiras, JMN Silva and M.J. Vasconcelos (2006) Alguns Catarino, L, V.
Cassamá and M.J. Vasconcelos (2008) Base de referência para a entrada da Guiné-Bissau no
mercado de carbono – projecto CARBOVEG-GB. Bioeconomia, Livro de resumos do 3º Congresso
da Ordem dos Biólogos pp.25.
Cabral, Ana; MJ Vasconcelos e Luís Veríssimo (2006) Cartografia do Coberto do Solo em ÁfricaAngola in Moreira, I (ed) Angola – Agricultura, Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Rural. ISA
Press. Pp 79 -95
Pereira JMC, J.M.B. Carreiras, JMN Silva and M.J. Vasconcelos (2006) Alguns conceitos básicos
sobre fogos rurais em Portugal. In Pereira, J.S., JMC Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N. Silva and T.P. da
Silva (eds) Incêndios Florestais em Portugal. Caracterização Impactes e Prevenção, ISA Press
Pp.135-161
Ventura, J and M J Vasconcelos (2006) O fogo como processo fisico-químico e ecológico. In
Pereira, J.S., JMC Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N. Silva and T.P. da Silva (eds) Incêndios Florestais em
Portugal. Caracterização Impactes e Prevenção, ISA Press. Pp93-113.
Vasconcelos, M J, Filipe Catry, António Gonçalves and José S. Uva (2001) Application of Geofogo
in central portugal. In Proceedings of the Workshop: Tools and methodologies for fire danger
mapping. UTAD, Vila-Real 9-14 Março de 2001. pp. 90-105.
Catry, F. X., M.J.P. Vasconcelos, A. Gonçalves, J.U. Paúl, e Manuela Baptista (1999) Simulação
de fogos florestais, base para um sistema geo-temporal. Ingenium, II Série, Nº 40, pp.92-98.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo and Rui Gonçalves Henriques (1996) Applications of remote
sensing on an operational basis in Portugal. Invited paper in Proceedings of the Workshop Hellenic
National Strategy in the field applications of earth observation. Athens, 27 and 28 of January, 1995,
pp 172- 190.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo, Mário S. Caetano, and José M.C.Pereira (1996) Application of
GIS in forest fire prevention. In Saramaki J, B Koch and H. Gyde Lund (eds) Remote Sensing and
Computer Technology for Natural Resource Management The University of Joensuu, Research
Notes 48 -Proceedings of the IUFRO XX World Congress 6-12 August 1995. Tampere, Finland, pp
171 – 181.
Vasconcelos, Maria J. Perestrelo (1995) Integration of remote sensing and geographic information
systems for fire risk management. Invited paper in Proceedings of the EARSeL Workshop on
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Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fires. Alcalá de Henares, September 7-9 1995, pp.
129-147.
Vasconcelos, M.J. e J.M.C. Pereira (1990) Um algoritmo para simular a propagação de incêndios
florestais usando um sistema de informação geográfica. Protecção Civil, vol.3, no.10, pp.28-35.
Vasconcelos, Maria J.; D.P. Guertin; R.M. Itami, and M.J. Zwolinski (1989) FIREMAP - A modeling
system for simulating dynamic fire behavior. Presented at the Wilderness/Parks Fire Conference.
May 23-26, 1989
conceitos básicos sobre fogos rurais em Portugal. In Pereira, J.S., JMC Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N.
Silva and T.P. da Silva (eds) Incêndios Florestais em Portugal. Caracterização Impactes e
Prevenção, ISA Press Pp.135-161
Ventura, J and M J Vasconcelos (2006) O fogo como processo fisico-químico e ecológico. In
Pereira, J.S., JMC Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N. Silva and T.P. da Silva (eds) Incêndios Florestais em
Portugal. Caracterização Impactes e Prevenção, ISA Press. Pp93-113.
Catry, F. X., M.J.P. Vasconcelos, A. Gonçalves, J.U. Paúl, e Manuela Baptista (1999) Simulação
de fogos florestais, base para um sistema geo-temporal. Ingenium, II Série, Nº 40, pp.92-98.
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
Supervision and co-supervision of Post -Docs at IICT:
2009 – 2010 Sara Silva, Computer scientist, PhD University of Coimbra. Application of
genetic programming to remote sensing problems. Scholarship SFRH/BPD/47794/2008
from the Portuguese Science Foundation
2008 – 2009 João Silva, Forester, PhD Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of
Lisbon: Incorporating fire as an agricultural management tool in the mLPJ dynamic global
vegetation model. Scholarship SFRH/BPD/26773/2006 from the Portuguese Science
Foundation
2008 – 2008 João Carreiras, Forester, PhD Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of
Lisbon. Reducing uncertainties in regenerating forest biomass retrieval. Scholarship
SFRH/BPD/26410/2006 from the Portuguese Science Foundation
Doctoral supervision and co-supervision:
2010-2011 Joaquim César, Agronomist: Sustainable use of range lands for transhumance
in central-eastern Namibe. Institute of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon
2007-2010 João Paulo Couto Sá Torres, Biologist: Characterization of vegetation
recovery patterns using remote sensing. Grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation.
University of Oporto.
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2006-2010 Viriato Cassamá, Environmental Engineer, MSC IST, Universidade Técnica de
Lisboa: Quantification of carbon stocks and sinks in the forest vegetation of GuineaBissau, Grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation.
2002- 2004 Maria do Carmo Nunes - Caracterização e modelação do padrão espaçotemporal dos fogos florestais com vista à monitorização da paisagem. Provas de acesso
à categoria de Investigadora Auxiliar no Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical.
Masters thesis and internships, co-supervision:
2011 André Amaro, tese de mestrado. Definição de linha de base de emissões de
carbono para o Parque Natural da Cufada Guiné-Bissau, Faculdade de Ciências e
Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2010-2012 Sosdito Mananze, tese de Mestrado. Definição de cenário REDD+ para o
Parque Florestal de Mecuburi, Moçambique, Instituto Superior de Agronomia,
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
2008 Sofia de JesusOliveira, Análise da frequência do fogo em Portugal continental
(1975-2005), com a distribuição de Weibull. Tese de mestrado no Departamento de
Enbenharia Florestal, ISA, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
2006 João Paulo Couto Sá Torres, Evolução da paisagem na região do Contanhez (GuiéBissau) e sua influência na adequabilidade do habitat para Pan troglodytes. Programa de
mestrado em Biologia, Universidade do Porto
2006 Viriato Cassamá, Alterações de coberto do solo na mata do Cantanhez (GuinéBissau) de 1953 a 2003. Tese de mestrado no âmbito do programa de mestrado em
Georecursos.IST
2004 Xabier Santesteban Insausti, Regresión geográficamente cargada de la superficie
quemada de Portugal entre 1980-2003. ISA
2004 Ana Veríssimo Meyer, Cartografia de áreas ardidas através de imagens do satélite
LANDSAT 5 TM entre 1984 e 1989. ISA
1999 Miguel Lérias da Cruz, Avaliação das potencialidades de imagens Landsat 5 TM
para classificação do coberto do solo. ISA
1999 José Carlos Mussá Biai, Análise das alterações das manchas de coberto vegetal no
Parque Natural de Cacheu e na Ilha de Orango (Guiné-Bissau). ISA
1995 Leonor Rodrigues Cadete – Utilização de imagens NOAA/AVHRR na detecção de
fogos activos e de áreas ardidas ao nível regional e global. Provas de acesso à categoria
de assistente de investigação no Centro Nacional de Informação Geográfica.
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PARTICIPATION IN PEER REVIEWING, ACADEMIC COMMITEES, AND JURIS
Evaluation of proposals in FP7 – Expert in Call FP7-SPACE-2010-1. Program
SICA and International Cooperation.
Peer reviewing for
Applied Geography
International Journal of Wildland Fire
EARSeL Advances in Remote Sensing
Simulation
Natural Hazards
Indian Journal of Marine Sciences
European Journal of Forest Research
Organization of Scientific Meetings
2002 Member of the Organizing Committee of the AIS 2002- Towards a Component
Based Modeling and Simulation, http://ais2002.dei.uc.pt/
2001 Member of the Organizing Committee of the GOFC-FIRE Satellite Products
Validation Workshop, http://www.isa.utl.pt/cef/eventos/gofc/
1990 Member of the Scientific Committee International Conference on Forest Fire
Research Fire Research. Universidade de Coimbra, Novembro 19-22 1990. Portugal.
Participation in Academic Juris
2007 Doctorate - Adélia Maria Oliveira de Sousa, Cartografia das áreas queimadas e
análise de padrões espaciais de ocorrência do fogos no Brasil, usando dados de
detecção remota. Universidade de Évora.
2007 MSc in Ciências e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica – Filipe Xavier Catry,
Modelação espacial do risco de ignição em Portugal continental. ISEGI, Univesidade
Técnica de Lisboa
2007 MSc in Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos – João Paulo Couto Sá Torres,
Evolução da paisagem na região do Cantanhez (Guiné-Bissau) e sua influência na
adequabilidade do habitat para Pan Troglodytes. Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do
Porto
2006 MSc in Georrecursos – Viriato Luís Cassamá, Alterações do coberto do solo na
mata do Cantanhez (Guiné-Bissau) de 1953 a 2003. IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
2006 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal– Joana Faria. Cartografia de
áreas queimadas na região de Darwin (NT, Austrália) com imagem Landsat e uma
abordagem de orientação a objectos. ISA, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
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2005 Internship in Forestry – Deva Sanchez Nuño Aperfeiçoamento de metodologias
para a cartografia de áreas queimadas, usando imagens Landsat TM. Universidad de
Lleida
2005 Internship in Forestry – Ana Margarida Barros. Análise do risco de incêndio com
origem em fogos rurais numa região do distrito do Porto . ISA
2005 Provas de acesso à categoria de investigadora auxiliar - Ana Isabel Rosa Cabral,
Cartografia de coberto do solo no hemisfério sul de África usando imagens de satélite.
IICT
2005 Doctorate – João Manuel Brito Carreiras, “Detecção remota de alterações de
coverto vegetal na bacia amazónica”. ISA
2005 Doctorate – Daniela Stroppiana, Burnt area mapping over the Australian continent
with SPOT-Vegetation data. ISA
2004 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal – Miguel Nascimento Brito Alves,
Cartografia de áreas queimadas com trablaho de campo e imagens de satélite: relações
entre forma e escala. ISA
2004 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal – Cristina Sesto Yague,
Orientação de áreas queimadas nas bacias hidrográficas de Portugal (1990-2002). ISA
2003 MSc em Gestão de Recursos Biológicos – Maria Manuela da Silva Correia,
Utilização de detecção remota para monitorização temporal do uso do solo no estuário do
Tejo. Universidade de Évora
2002 Doctorate – David Riaño Arribas, Analysis and mapping of fuel properties by
remote sensing. Departamento Inter-universitário de Ecologia, Universidade de Alcalá de
Henares, Espanha.
1999 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal– Paula Alexandra Caldas Amaral,
Análise da orientação de áreas ardidas em Portugal continental entre 1991 e 1996. ISA.
1998 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal – Bárbara dos Santos Pereira,
Detecção remota de áreas ardidas em savanas da África Central. ISA.
1998 Trabalho de fim de curso de Engenharia Florestal – Inês Medina Monteiro de Sousa
Teixeira, Avaliação do comportamento do algoritmo contextual para detecção de fogos
activos em Portugal continental. ISA.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2002 Post-graduate course on Game management and nature recreation, from the
Modern University of Lisbon, teaching the module: GIS and applications to natural
resource management.
1995-1998 Lecturer at the Masters Program on Renewable Natural Resource
Management of the Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon. Introduction to
Geographic Information Systems.
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LECTURES
2008 Invited speaker at the side event COP14 - United Nations Climate Change
Conference to present the results of project CARBOVEG - GB: quantification of carbon
stocks and sinks in the forests of Guinea – Bissau. Poznan, Poland, December 2008
2007 Invited speaker at the Information Day of the European Commission's Joint
Research Centre (JRC), November 30, 2007
2006 Participation in the presentation and discussion session of the report on Global
Economic Prospects 2007. Gulbenkian
2004 O fogo como processo fisico-químico e ecológico. Planeamento do Território e
Protecção da Floresta contra os Incêndios, Lisboa 6 e 7 de Maio.
2003 I Jornada Técnica de Modelação da Floresta, Instituto Superior de Gestão,
Lisboa, 29 de Setembro de 2003.
2002 Seminário: Tropical landcover monitoring by remote sensing, Universidade de
Alcalá de Henares, 22 de Março de 2002.
2000 Invited speaker in the Seminario Transnazionale VISION-POISEDON. Centro de
Ricerca, Svillupo Studi superiori in Sardegna 7 de Março, 2000.
1995 Invited Lecturer at the EARSeL Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS
applications to Forest Fires. Alcalá de Henares, September 7 - 9, 1995.
1995 Invited Lecturer at the Workshop: Hellenic National Strategy in the field
applications of earth observation. Athens, 26 and 27 of January, 1995.
1995 Invited Speaker at the Seminário sobre aplicações das imagens de satélite SPOT
do domínio agrícola e florestal. IEADR, 26 de Outubro, 1994. Lisboa.
1990 Invited Speaker in Simpósio Técnico da 22ª Conferência da Liga dos Bombeiros
Portugueses. Sintra, Portugal.
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