Global Satellite Monitoring of Wildfires

Emilio Chuvieco is Professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Master program in Geographic Information Technologies, and leads the “Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group”. He has received the Rei Jaume I award for Environmental Protection in 2022, Previously, he obtained the research award of the Social Council of the University of Alcalá in 2000, the national award on forest fire research in 2004, the award as advisor of Ph.D. dissertations in 2016, and the award on excellence research and medal distinction of University of Alcalá in 2021. He is within the 2% of most influential scientists in the Standford University ranking of the world scientists. Visiting professor at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, Cambridge, the University of Maryland, Oxford and the Canadian Remote Sensing Center. Advisor of 43 Ph.D. dissertations. Principal investigator of 35 research projects and 25 contracts. Author of 33 books and 415 scientific papers and book chapters, It has an h-index of 68 in the Scopus database (>13,000 citations) and 89 from Google Scholar (>29,000 citations) (all data refer January 2024). Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. Corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance ECV within the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative Program. Science coordinator of the European project FirEUrisk. Co-editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment from 2015 to March 2020.