Flor Álvarez-Taboada
Associate Professor. University of Leon
I am a Forest Engineer, with a PhD in Remote Sensing. In work as an assistant professor at the Universidad de Leon. I investigate and demonstrate applications of satellite data to natural resources monitoring, with special attention to forest health, wildfires and water. Regarding direct knowledge transfer to the industry/companies/entities I am the main researcher/collaborator of several research contracts/ technical contracts with companies/public entities. I have registered (as a co-author) three software programs to model growth and C estimations in poplar plantations using a terrestrial laser scanner, to segment point clouds, and to detect changes in forest health using images. I have been awarded with four TCUE proof of concept awards, to monitor weeds using remote sensing, to test a multisensor laser in forest environments, to test growth models in poplar plantations using point clouds and a terrestrial laser, and to test a forest health monitoring system in poplar plantations. I have been awarded with the 2nd award in the “Desafío Universidad-Empresa 2021“, given by the Junta de Castilla y León, for “TreeAlert” a forest health monitoring system. Since 2017 I coordinate the wildfire prevention campaign “Plantemonos contra el fuego”, developed in collaboration with the Junta de Castilla y León (Servicio Territorial de Medio Ambiente, Centro para la Defensa Contra el Fuego) in the primary and secondary schools of León. Until now, using a service learning approach, more than 2300 students from primary schools have attended our mobile-workhops, and more than 400 primary school pupils have participated in the activities on-campus. These activities have led to the Universidad de León receiving the innovation award in 2019 and have been recognized as good practices in the Firecamp in 2019 in Portugal. The workshops include the transference of the knowledge we developed in wildfire monitoring using remote sensing. This knowledge has been also transferred to the technical staff of the Junta de Castilla y Leon in two technical courses I gave them in 2020.
I am a Forest Engineer, with a PhD in Remote Sensing. In work as an assistant professor at the Universidad de Leon. I investigate and demonstrate applications of satellite data to natural resources monitoring, with special attention to forest health, wildfires and water. Regarding direct knowledge transfer to the industry/companies/entities I am the main researcher/collaborator of several research contracts/ technical contracts with companies/public entities. I have registered (as a co-author) three software programs to model growth and C estimations in poplar plantations using a terrestrial laser scanner, to segment point clouds, and to detect changes in forest health using images. I have been awarded with four TCUE proof of concept awards, to monitor weeds using remote sensing, to test a multisensor laser in forest environments, to test growth models in poplar plantations using point clouds and a terrestrial laser, and to test a forest health monitoring system in poplar plantations. I have been awarded with the 2nd award in the “Desafío Universidad-Empresa 2021“, given by the Junta de Castilla y León, for “TreeAlert” a forest health monitoring system. Since 2017 I coordinate the wildfire prevention campaign “Plantemonos contra el fuego”, developed in collaboration with the Junta de Castilla y León (Servicio Territorial de Medio Ambiente, Centro para la Defensa Contra el Fuego) in the primary and secondary schools of León. Until now, using a service learning approach, more than 2300 students from primary schools have attended our mobile-workhops, and more than 400 primary school pupils have participated in the activities on-campus. These activities have led to the Universidad de León receiving the innovation award in 2019 and have been recognized as good practices in the Firecamp in 2019 in Portugal. The workshops include the transference of the knowledge we developed in wildfire monitoring using remote sensing. This knowledge has been also transferred to the technical staff of the Junta de Castilla y Leon in two technical courses I gave them in 2020.