The Team

Our Researchers

A multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and remote sensing specialists working at the frontier of Earth observation.

Principal Investigators

JS

José Antonio Sobrino Rodríguez

Principal Investigator (IP-1)

Full Professor

Founder of the Global Change Unit. Author of more than 250 articles in international journals with over 26,000 citations (h-index 73 on Google Scholar). Member of the ESA Mission Advisory Group (MAG) for the LSTM mission and PI of the CDTI MORERA mission.

Land Surface TemperatureEmissivityCalibration/ValidationLSTM mission
JJ

Juan Carlos Jiménez Muñoz

Principal Investigator (IP-2)

Associate Professor

Expert in radiative transfer, atmospheric corrections, and surface temperature retrieval algorithms. Leads the pre-processing and algorithm development work packages for the IPL-HRTM project.

Atmospheric CorrectionsRadiative TransferLST AlgorithmsTRISHNA mission

Senior Researchers

GS

Guillem Sòria

Tenured Professor

SUHIHotspot DetectionCoastal SSTSEVIRI data processing
BF

Belén Franch Gras

Tenured Professor

Crop Yield EstimationAlbedoAgriculture Remote SensingMODIS products

PhD Students

7 in progress
1

Juan Manuel Cintas Rodríguez

Global wheat normalization using Growing Degree Days accumulation

2

Rafael Llorens Company

Soil burn severity in forest fires from Remote Sensing

3

María José González Bonilla

Mission analysis and requirements for ECO SAR mission

4

Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz

Solutions for improving SAR systems in New Space environments

5

Letian Wei

Urban heat environment using satellite, airborne, and in-situ data

6

Daniel Alejandro Salinas González

Climate change impact on temperature of major world cities

7

Zoe Charlotte Helbing

Remote sensing and ML for soil moisture content and future predictions in Europe