Isabel Pocas

1. Personal data Full name: Isabel Maria Valgôde Alves Pôças Name under which publishes: Isabel Pôças Email: isabel.pocas@forestwise.pt 2 - Current professional activity Senior Researcher at Laboratório Colaborativo para Gestão Integrada da Floresta e do Fogo, Portugal 3. Previous scientific and/or professional activities: - Post-Doc researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais, Universidade do Porto (CICGE–UP), Portugal - Post-Doc researcher at LEAF - Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Portugal 4. Areas of scientific activity: - Agricultural Sciences; Forestry; Remote Sensing; Water management in agriculture; Vegetation monitoring 5. Research interests: - Monitoring of ecosystems and landscape dynamics: (i) Use of time series data of satellite sensors with very high temporal resolution; (ii) Use of biophysical variables derived from Earth Observation data. - Analysis of landscape changes based on remote sensing data. 6. Participation in research projects (team member): 2019 - 2020 - Project title “DevelOpment of PaloP knowledge in Radioastronomy partnership” (DOPPLER) Funded by "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia" and Aga Khan Foundation. Participation in Earth Observation Schools in Mozambique in topics related with applications of remote sensing to agriculture. 2018 - 2019 - Project title “Statistical modelling of hyperspectral reflectance for estimating the water status in vineyard based on predawn leaf water potential". Funded by IJUP-Empresas program. 2014 – 2020: Project title: “Enabling Green E-Science for the SKA” (ENGAGE SKA). Funded by "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia", "Comissão de Coordenação Regional do Centro", "Comissão de Coordenação regional do Norte", and "Comissão de Coordenação Regional do Alentejo" (http://portugal.skatelescope.org/industria/). Participation in activities related with applications of remote sensing to agriculture. - 2013 – 2014 – Project title: “What remote sensing data can really tell about vegetation dynamics in agricultural crops. Looking ahead (AGRISAT_XXI)” (EXPL/AGR-PRO/1559/2012). Funded by "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia". - 2011 - 2013 - Project title: "Integration of in situ biophysical information on crop and land surface with remotely sensed observations to model olive water use and irrigation scheduling at local and regional scales (H2OLIVE3S)"(PTDC/AGR-PRO/111717/2009). Funded by "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia". - 2011- 2012 - Project title: "BIOdiversity Multi-Source Monitoring System: from Space TO Species" (FP7-SPACE-2010-1). Funded by European Commission. Coordinated by CNR-ISSIA. - 2007 – 2011 - Project title: "Ancestral irrigation management on mountain seminatural meadows using remote sensing. LAMESAT_XXI” (PTDC/AGR-AAM/67182/2006). Funded by "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia". - 2007-2008 – Project title: “Mountain seminatural meadows (“Lameiros”) monitoring”. Project n.º 307 of the framework FP6/O.A.S.I.S project (Optimising Access to SPOT Infrastructure for Science), Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Funded by the European Commission