RESEARCH PROJECTS – 2005 TO PRESENT

Copernicus Services Essential Climate Variable products derived from observations; Land Biosphere

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
  • REFERENCE: ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2024/C3S_312e_BC
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Brockman Consult GmbH, Universidad de Alcalá, Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Leicester.
  • DURATION FROM: February 2025 TO: March 2028
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • BUDGET: 264,196.99 € (UAH), 2,137,397.08 € (total project)

Climate Change Initiative – Cross ECV Activities – XFires

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Space Agency
  • REFERENCE: 4000145351/24/I-LR
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: University of Exeter (United Kingdom), Univ. de Alcalá, LSCE-UVSQ (France), Wageningen University (Netherlands), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), University of Leicester (UK), Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria), BIRA-IASB (Belgium), CNR-IREA (Italy), Technical University of Denmark.
  • DURATION FROM: September 2024 TO: August 2027
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 20 (5 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 450,000 € (UAH), 1,999,756 € (total project)

Climate Change Initiative – RECCAP2

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Space Agency
  • REFERENCE: 4000144908/24/I-LR
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: LSCE-UVSQ (France), University of Exeter (United Kingdom), University of Leipzig (Germany), INRAE (France), Technical University of Munich (Germany), Copenhagen University (Denmark), Stockholm University (Sweden), Brockmann Consult GmbH (Germany), Estellus (France), CITEPA (France), Univ. de Alcalá, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), CMCC (Italy), KAYRROS (France).
  • DURATION FROM: September 2024 TO: August 2027
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 25 (2 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 110,000 € (UAH), 3,000,000 € (total project)

Climate Change Initiative Plus (CCI+) Programme – ECV Fire Disturbance Project

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Space Agency
  • REFERENCE: 4000126706/19/I-NB
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Univ. de Alcalá, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), CNR-IREA (Italy), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Brockman Consult GmbH (Germany), CNRS (France), Wageningen University (Netherlands), Max Planck Institute for Metheorology (Germany), COMPLUTIG (Spain), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands).
  • DURATION FROM: April 2019 TO: December 2026
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 20 (7 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 543,884 € (UAH), 1,623,537 € (total project)

Copernicus Services Essential Climate Variable products derived from observations; Land Biosphere (Lot 5)

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
  • REFERENCE: ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2021/C3S_312b_Lot5_VITO
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: VITO, Brockman Consult GmbH, EOLAB, FastOp, HYGEOS, Universidad de Alcalá, Université Catholique de Louvain.
  • DURATION FROM: July 2022 TO: September 2024
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • BUDGET: 142,024.11 € (UAH), 1,771,550.91 € (total project)

Detección de Cambios en los ecosistemas forestales en Comunidad de Madrid – un enfoque de teledetección y análisis de big data

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Comunidad de Madrid
  • REFERENCE: CM/JIN/2021-024
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad Mayor
  • DURATION FROM: January 2022    TO: December 2023
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Mihai Tanase 
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 4 (3 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 38,250 €

Firelogue – Cross-sector dialogue for Wildfire Risk Management

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Union Green Deal research and innovation programme
  • REFERENCE: H2020- LC- GD- 2020 – 101036534
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: 15 research groups from Europe
  • DURATION FROM: November 2021   TO: October 2025
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco (UAH tasks) 
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 2 (from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 91,250 € (UAH), 3,259,370.75 € (total project)

Near-Real-Time Forests Disturbance Monitoring

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • REFERENCE: PID2020-114062RA-I00
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad de Zaragoza
  • DURATION FROM: September 2021 TO: September 2024
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Mihai Tanase 
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 3 (1 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 108,900 €

FirEUrisk – Developing a Holistic, Risk-Wise Strategy for European Wildfire Management

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020
  • REFERENCE: Grant agreement No 1010038900
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Univ. de Alcalá and other 37 research gropus
  • DURATION FROM: April 2021 TO: March 2025
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco (UAH tasks)
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 7 (from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 530,000 € (UAH), 10,200,000 € (total project)

ConIF-Salud  – Cuantificación espacial de la concentración de gases contaminantes producidos por los incendios forestales para el estudio de la morbilidad asociada a eventos extremos

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Comunidad de Madrid
  • REFERENCE: CM/BG/2021-004
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Univ. de Alcalá and Instituto de Salud Carlos III
  • DURATION FROM: April 2021 TO: March 2025
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Patricia Oliva
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 5 (4 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 125,333 €

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enabled Analysis Ready Data (ARD) cubes for efficient monitoring of agricultural and forested landscapes

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Comunidad de Madrid
  • REFERENCE: CM/JIN/2019-011
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá, Complutig, HAZI
  • DURATION FROM: January 2020 TO: December 2021
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Mihai Tanase
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 4 (2 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 41,900 €

High performance computing for environmental monitoring

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Universidad de Alcalá
  • REFERENCE: INFR. B 2020-023
  • DURATION FROM: January 2020 TO: December 2020
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Mihai Tanase
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 12
  • BUDGET: 39,700 €

Desarrollo de un sistema de seguimiento de la salud forestal en la Comunidad de Madrid mediante técnicas de teledetección (SaFoT)

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Consejería de Educación e Investigación
  • REFERENCE: IND2018/AMB-9861
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá and COMPLUTIG
  • DURATION FROM: February 2019 TO: January 2022
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Mariano García
  • BUDGET: 88,395 € (UAH), 148,395 € (total project)

ANTHROPOFIRE – Global analysis of human factors of fire risk

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades: PLAN ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TÉCNICA Y DE INNOVACIÓN 2017-2020
  • REFERENCE: RTI2018-097538-B-I00
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá
  • DURATION FROM: January 2019 TO: September 2022
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Inmaculada Aguado
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 10
  • BUDGET: 72,600 €

DARE – Data-driven models of forest drought vulnerability and resilience across spatial and temporal scales: application to the Spanish climate change adaptation strategy

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades: PLAN ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TÉCNICA Y DE INNOVACIÓN 2017-2020
  • REFERENCE: RTI2018-096884-B-C32
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad de Alcalá
  • DURATION FROM: January 2019 TO: September 2022
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Miguel Ángel de Zavala
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 6
  • BUDGET: 116,160 €

Burned Area Products for Copernicus Climate Change Services

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
  • REFERENCE: 124/2018, ECMWF/COPERNICUS/2018/C3S_312b_Lot5_VITO
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: VITO, Brockman Consult GmbH, King’s College, Universidad de Valencia, Universidad de Alcalá, Université Catholique de Louvain.
  • DURATION FROM: April 2018 TO: June 2021
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • BUDGET: 127,510.75 € (UAH), 3,775,963.44 € (total project)

MULTIPLY – MULTIscale SENTINEL land surface information retrieval PLatform

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020).
  • REFERENCE: Grant agreement No 687320
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universiteit Leiden (Coordinator), Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, University College London, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Tartu Observatory – Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, Universidad de Alcalá, Assimila Ltd.
  • DURATION FROM: January 2016 TO: December 2019
  • LEAD RESEARCHERS: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero / Javier Salas (UAH tasks)
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 3 (UAH)
  • BUDGET: 49,422.50 € (UAH), 2,994,055 € (total project)

DECATASTROPHIZE – Use of SDSS and MCDA to prepare for disasters or plan for multiple hazards

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Directorate General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection: ECHO. European Commision.
  • REFERENCE: ECHO/SUB/2015/713788/PREP02
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Civil Defense, Atlantis Consulting Ltd, French Geological Survey, Foundation for Research&Technology, Technical University of Crete, Geoview Systems Szamitastechnikai Kft, European Research Insitute, Geosolutions di Giannechni Simone & C.Geos, Universidad de Alcalá.
  • DURATION FROM: January 2016 TO: December 2017
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Inmaculada Aguado (UAH tasks)
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 4
  • BUDGET: 50,625.00 €

ESA CCI ECV FIRE Disturbance Phase 2

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Space Agency
  • REFERENCE: Nº 4000115006/15/I-NB
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: 6 Universities y 4 research centres
  • DURATION FROM: September 2015 TO: March 2019
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 21 (5 from UAH)
  • BUDGET: 609,012 € (UAH), 2,697,680 € (total project)

SERGISAT – Severidad y regeneración en grandes incendios forestales mediante teledetección y SIG

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica
  • REFERENCE: CGL2014-57013-C2-1-R
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad Alcalá
  • DURATION FROM: January 2015 TO: December 2017
  • LEAD RESEARCHERS: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero / Inmaculada Aguado
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 4
  • BUDGET: 94,380.00 € (UAH), 154,380 € (total project)

Cátedra de Ética Ambiental

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Fundación Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad Alcalá
  • DURATION FROM: May 2013 TO: March 2021
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero
  • BUDGET: 375,000 €

ECV FIRE Disturbance

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Space Agency
  • REFERENCE: Nº 4000101779/10/I-NB
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: 10 universities and research centres
  • DURATION FROM: September 2010 TO: August 2013
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 18
  • BUDGET: 359,000 € (UAH), 1,800,000 € (total project)

SAFER – Services and Applications For Emergency Response

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Commission
  • REFERENCE: FP7-SPACE-2007-1
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: 57 European research centres and universities
  • DURATION FROM: January 2009 TO: December 2011
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH tasks)
  • BUDGET: 101,816 € (UAH)

FIREGLOBE: Análisis de escenarios de riesgo a escala nacional y global

  • FINANCING ENTITY: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Direc. General de Investigación
  • REFERENCE: CGL2008-01083/CLI
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: Universidad Alcalá, U. Oviedo, U. Zaragoza, U. País Vasco, U. Politécnica de Madrid, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología.
  • DURATION FROM: January 2009 TO: December 2011
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero
  • NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS: 15
  • BUDGET: 238,370 € (total project)

EURORISK/PREVIEW: PREVention, Information, & Early Warning for risk management

  • FINANCING ENTITY: European Commission
  • REFERENCE: Contract 516172
  • PARTICIPATING ENTITIES: 58 European research centres and universities
  • DURATION FROM: August 2005 TO: August 2009
  • LEAD RESEARCHER: Emilio Chuvieco Salinero (UAH)
  • BUDGET: 161,700 € (UAH)