The Team
Our Researchers
A multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and remote sensing specialists working at the frontier of Earth observation.
Principal Investigators
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.
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.
Senior Researchers
Guillem Sòria
Tenured Professor
Belén Franch Gras
Tenured Professor
PhD Students
7 in progressJuan Manuel Cintas Rodríguez
Global wheat normalization using Growing Degree Days accumulation
Rafael Llorens Company
Soil burn severity in forest fires from Remote Sensing
María José González Bonilla
Mission analysis and requirements for ECO SAR mission
Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz
Solutions for improving SAR systems in New Space environments
Letian Wei
Urban heat environment using satellite, airborne, and in-situ data
Daniel Alejandro Salinas González
Climate change impact on temperature of major world cities
Zoe Charlotte Helbing
Remote sensing and ML for soil moisture content and future predictions in Europe