Gómez Almaraz, Cristina

2020             Geostatistical Analysis (20 hours) MEDFOR, UVa (Spain)

2019             Teaching “DIP for environmental applications” (25 hours). INIA, Madrid (Spain)

2018-2021    Mentoring PhD thesis. Impact of management and wildfire regime on forest structure. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).

2017             Teaching “Forestry Lidar” (20 hours). November 2017, INIA, Madrid (Spain)

2014             Mentoring 4 MSc Thesis. University of Aberdeen (UK)

2013-2014   Teaching Fellow. Department of Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK

                    Courses in MSc Geographical Information Systems:

1. Remote Sensing and GIS
2. Current Applications of GIS
3. GIS tools and techniques I
4. GIS tools and techniques II
5. People Management for GIS
6. Planning, managing and presenting a GIS project

2007-2009   Practical Instructor. Department of Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK

         Courses in BSc Geography:

1. Mapping and Monitoring the Environment

2007           Lecturer. Department of Geography and Environment, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK

                   Courses in MSc Applied Geospatial Technology:

1. Digital Image Processing

2007           Practical use of ArcGIS with GIS notions (Post-graduate course, 25 hours). Department of Geology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK

Environmental Remote Sensing

Integration of remote sensing technology for enhanced evaluation of forest dynamics.

Characterization of forest structure with satellite and airborne data.

Assessment of species and stand phenology with optical and radar time series.

Technologies:

Time series from optical sensors (Landsat, Sentinel-2).

Time series from radar (TanDEM-X, PAZ).

UAV (Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles).

Airborne LiDAR (ALS).

Current projects

2021-2023.  Integration of artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and dendrochronology to reconstruct and predict the expansion and impact of the pine processionary moth with climate change (OUTBREAK)

2019-2022. Characterization of forest ecosystem phenology with X-band PAZ data. Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aerospacial (INTA). Spain.

2018-2021. Forest height retrieval in pilot areas of Spain with TanDEM-X data. German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Germany. 

Past projects

2017-2020. Influence of natural disturbance regimes and management on forest dynamics, structure and carbon balance (FORESTCHANGE). AGL 2016-767629-C2-1-R. I+D+I Spain.

2017-2017. Scoping and prototyping Sentinel-1 data opportunities for assessment of biophysical properties in cropping paddocks of the Yorke Peninsula (Australia). Digital Content analysis Technology Ltd (D-CAT) (UK)

2017-2017. Aboveground biomass and indicators of forest degradation in Costa Rica estimated with radar data from ALOS PALSAR and field inventory data. International Monetary Fund (IMF)

2015-2017. Forest management facing the change in forest ecosystems dynamics: a multiscale approach (SCALyFOR). AGL2013-46028-R

2012-2017. Using time series approaches to improve Landsat´s characterization of land surface dynamics. USGS sponsored project for the Landsat Science Team. USA.

2014-2015. Opportunities for generating annual land cover products from a time series of Landsat proxy image composites. Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada.

2013-2015. Past, present and future of mountain forests: monitoring and modelling the effects of climate change and management on forest dynamics (GESCLIMFOR). Red de Parques Nacionales, Spain.

2013-2014. Investigating the use of spatio-temporal segmentation and annual Landsat composites to characterize landscape-level forest change and revise composite values. Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada.

2012-2012. Scoping and prototyping of a national, fine-grained, time since disturbance map of Canada. Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada.

2009-2013. South Aberdeen Coastal Regeneration. Aberdeen City Council. Scotland.

2011-2011. Weather and coastal flooding history: the Uists and Benbecula. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Scotland.

2010-2010. Gualan Island Study, South Ford, Outer Hebrides. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Scotland.

2009-2009. Quantification of the physical changes in the coastal landscape of the South Ford, Outer Hebrides. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Scotland. 

2007-2007. Assessment of the rates and causes of change in Scotland´s beaches and dunes-Phase 2. Scottish National Heritage. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Scotland.

2006-2009. Estructura, dinámica y selvicultura para la conservación y el uso sostenible de los bosques en el Sistema Central. I+D+I Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León. Spain. 

Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service (NRCAN). Canada. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-data/research-centres-labs/forestry-rese...

UAS Centre for Environmental Monitoring and Mapping (UCEMM). University of Aberdeen, Scotland. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/research/ucemm

Aberdeen Institute for Coastal Science and Management (AICSM). University of Aberdeen, Scotland. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/aicsm

Instituto Universitario de Investigación Informática (IUII). University of Alicante, Spain. http://cvnet.cpd.ua.es/Directorio/Home/FichaUnidad/10.19

Laboratory of Radar Remote Sensing and Imaging Geodesy (RRSIG). Central South University, China. http://faculty.csu.edu.cn/