Olga Viedma
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Biography
Olga Viedma has graduated in Geography, specializing in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She has completed her PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Alcala, Spain in 1999. She belongs to the group of Fire Ecology and Global Change of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). Her main research is focused on landscape ecology and forest fires which has resulted in several papers related to the development of standard methodologies for mapping fires from satellite images, analysis of spatio-temporal patterns of forest fires, post-fire effects and spatio-temporal modeling of historical land use-land cover changes-related to fire hazard.
Abstract
Abstract : Feedbacks between fire and landscape using remote sensing and GIS