Biographic Info / Biografia


Date of Birth / Data de Nascimento : 18 September 1969

Nacionality / Nacionalidade : Portuguese


Academic degrees / Formação académica :

1991 - 1st degree in Physics – Scientific, Solid State Physics (4 years)
Licenciatura em Física, Ramo Científico – Física do Estado Sólido e Ciência dos Materiais
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

1994 - MSc (Mestrado), Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

1998 - PhD (Doutoramento), Remote Sensing Image Processing and Applications
University of Dundee, Scotland, UK


Prizes / Prémios :

1999 - Remote Sensing Society Student Award – Annual prize for the best PhD (£500)
2007 - Syngenta Innovation in Agriculture award / Prémio Inovação em Agricultura – "Avaliação da qualidade da pulverização através do processamento automático de imagem de papéis hidrossensíveis: Spr@y_Image" , Mário Cunha & André Marçal (10 000 euro)


Series Editor, with Freek van der Meer (ITC), of the SPRINGER Book Series
'Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing'


Work as referee for scientific journals / Revisor Científico :

Computers & Geoscience (2 papers)
EARSeL eProceedings (2 papers)
International Journal of Remote Sensing (11 papers)
International Journal of Tomography & Statistics (1 paper)
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (1 paper)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2 papers)
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (1 paper)
Remote Sensing of the Environment (2 papers)
SPIE Optical Engineering (1 paper)
Transactions of the ASABE (1 paper)