Undergraduation, Forestry, School of Agronomy (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon), 1993.

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1 Curriculum Vitae (April 2009) : identification Name: João Manuel de Brito Carreiras Born: 4th February, 1968, Almada, Portugal Institutional address: Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Department of Natural Sciences, Rua João de Barros 27, Lisboa, Portugal Phone: Fax: jmbcarreiras@iict.pt : academic qualifications Ph.D., Forestry, Evaluation of Land Cover Changes in the Amazon Basin using Remote Sensing Data, School of Agronomy (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon), Undergraduation, Forestry, School of Agronomy (ISA), Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon), : area of scientific activity and present research interests Use of remote sensing data [e.g., multispectral/hyperspectral, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)] for mapping and quantifying changes in the species/community composition, biomass and structure of tropical, subtropical, and temperate forests and woodlands, in relation to anthropogenic land use and climate change. : employment and main activities/results May 2008 present: research fellow (May 2008 present) at the Department of Natural Sciences, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Lisbon (Portugal). Australia: to advance, adapt and test several empirical and semi-empirical algorithms to predict forest biomass from the spaceborne Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array L-band SAR (PALSAR) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Airborne SAR (AIRSAR) sensors in Queensland (Australia); mapping Queensland (Australia) forest structural types using ALOS PALSAR data. June 2007 April 2008: postdoctoral fellow (June 2007 April 2008) at the Department of Natural Sciences, Tropical Research Institute (IICT), Lisbon (Portugal) and Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth (Wales, UK). Australia: pre-processing and geocoding of ALOS PALSAR data; relationships between ALOS PALSAR backscatter (dual polarization, HH and HV) and forest biomass aimed at estimating woodland savannas carbon stocks. Portugal: modelling and understanding forest fire occurrence as a function of environmental and site-specific dendrometric variables, with a view to enhanced integration of forest and fire management planning activities.

2 September 1997 May 2007: research associate at the Department of Forestry, School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon) (Portugal). Portugal: relationship between spectral measures derived from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data and cork oak woodlands canopy cover; methods to build a short-term fire risk map for Portugal; burnt area database for Portugal ( ), intended for understanding fire incidence (e.g., topography, land cover, protected areas), and fire frequency; post-fire shrub biomass accumulation curve in relation to the number of years since the last fire (i.e., the age of the regenerating vegetation), which could be used for fuel management; hightemporal resolution optical remote sensing data to estimate fuel moisture content; predictive capability of pre-fire fuel greenness and moisture spectral measurements temporal profiles for spatial burnt area distribution; long- and short-term fire risk map for Portugal, aimed at establishing priorities for forest and civil protection at national-level, namely, pre-positioning of fire fighting personnel and equipment, routing of ground patrols, and early managing of lookout towers; methods to identify priority areas for fire preventive silviculture, and shrub management, aimed at containing the progression of large fires; undergraduate teaching. Brazil: Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), LBA LC06 group (Huete/Shimabukuro); algorithms to produce SPOT-4 VEGETATION monthly composite images for the Brazilian Legal Amazon; machine learning algorithms to map land cover classes in the Brazilian Legal Amazon; extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon for the year September 1995 August 1997: Junior Engineer at Silviconsultores Environment and Natural Resources, Ltd., Lisbon (Portugal). Portugal: Business administration and management; coordinator of several County Forest Plans (PMIFs); multi-temporal analysis of aerial photographs to evaluate small-scale oak woodlands deforestation; coordinator of a Geographic Information System (GIS) Basic Course, for the Portuguese Paper Industry Association (CELPA). March 1993 August 1995: research assistant at the Department of Forestry, School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon (TULisbon) (Portugal). Portugal: main spatial patterns of fire incidence during the 1980s; dimensional relations to simplify prediction of total plant biomass, in Mediterranean shrublands, as well as biomass in the 1-hour, 10-hour, and 100-hour timelag size classes; allometric relationships to estimate Blue Gum Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus Labill) leaf area. : reviewer Remote Sensing of Environment, Forest Ecology and Management, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Advances in Space Research. : publications Thesis Carreiras, J.M.B. (2005). Evaluation of Land Cover Changes in the Amazon Basin using Remote Sensing Data. Ph.D. thesis in Forestry. School of Agronomy, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon.

3 Chapters in books Tenhunen, J., Geyer, R., Carreiras, J.M.B., Dinh, N.Q., Besson, C., Ribeiro, N., Otieno, D., & Pereira, J.S. (2009). Simulating function and vulnerability of cork oak woodland ecosystems. In Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge. Ecology, Adaptive Management, and Restoration, pp J. Aronson, J.S. Pereira, & J.G. Pausas, eds., Island Press, Washington, D.C.. Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., Silva, J.M.N., & Vasconcelos, M.J. (2006). Alguns conceitos básicos sobre os fogos rurais em Portugal. In Incêndios Florestais em Portugal: Caracterização, Impactes e Prevenção, pp J.S. Pereira, J.M.C. Pereira, F.C. Rego, J.M.N. Silva, & T.P. Silva, eds., ISAPress, Lisboa. Pereira, J.M.C., Sá, A.C.L., Sousa, A.M.O., Silva, J.M.N., Santos, T.N. e Carreiras, J.M.B. (1999). Spectral characterisation and discrimination of burnt areas. In Remote Sensing of Large Wildfires in the European Mediterranean Basin, pp E. Chuvieco, ed., Ecological Studies Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., e Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2006). Land cover mapping in the Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data and machine learning classification methods. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 72(8), Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Campagnolo, M.L., & Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2006). Assessing the extent of agriculture/pasture and secondary succession forest in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using SPOT VEGETATION data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 101, Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., & Pereira, J.S. (2006). Estimation of tree canopy cover in evergreen oak woodlands using remote sensing. Forest Ecology and Management, 223, Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2005). SPOT-4 VEGETATION multitemporal compositing for land cover change studies over tropical regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(7), Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Shimabukuro, Y.E., & Stroppiana, D. (2003). Evaluation of compositing algorithms over the Brazilian Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(17), Carreiras, J.M.B., Shimabukuro, Y.E., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2002). Fraction images derived from SPOT-4 VEGETATION data to assess land-cover change over the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23(23), Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Vasconcelos, M.J.P. (1998). Exploratory data analysis of the spatial distribution of wildfires in Portugal, Geographical Systems, 5(4): Pereira, J.M.C., Tomé, M.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Tomé, J.A., Pereira, J.S., David, J.S., & Fabião, A.M.D. (1997). Leaf area estimation from tree alometrics in Eucalyptus globulus plantations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 27: Pereira, J.M.C., Sequeira, N.M.S., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (1995). Structural properties and dimensional relations of some mediterranean shrub fuels. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 5(1):35-42.

4 Papers in conference proceedings Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Proisy, C., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). ALOS PALSAR applications in the tropics and subtropics: characterisation, mapping and detecting change in forests and coastal wetlands. Proceedings of the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, Rhodes (Greece), 3-7 November 2008,. Lucas, R., Lee, A., Armston, J., Breyer, J., Bunting, P., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (2008). Advances in Forest Characterisation, Mapping and Monitoring Through Integration of LiDAR and other Remote Sensing Datasets. Proceedings of Silvilaser 2008: 8th international conference on LiDAR applications in forest assessment and inventory, Edinburgh (UK), September Armston, J., Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F. (2008). Integration of Landsat and ALOS PALSAR for Mapping Vegetation Structure in Queensland. Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference (ARSPC), Darwin, Northern Territory (Australia), 29 September 3 October Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., & Armston, J. (2007). ALOS PALSAR for characterizing wooded savannas in Northern Australia. Proceedings of the First Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, Kyoto (Japan), November Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., & Armston, J. (2007). Pre-processing and geocoding of ALOS PALSAR data over Queensland, Australia. Proceedings of the First Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, Kyoto (Japan), November Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). An inductive fire risk map for Portugal. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Forest Fire Research. Figueira da Foz, Portugal, November 2006, ADAI/CEIF (in CD-ROM). Carreiras, J.M.B., Pereira, J.M.C., Campagnolo, M.L., & Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2005). A land cover map for the Brazilian Legal Amazon using SPOT-4 VEGETATION data and machine learning algorithms. Anais XII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Goiânia, Brasil, April 2005, INPE, pp Shimabukuro, Y.E., Carreiras, J.M.B., Anderson, L.O., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2004). Monitoring land cover and land cover changes in Mato Grosso state, Brazilian Amazon, using SPOT- VEGETATION and Terra-MODIS data. Proceedings of the 2 nd International VEGETATION User Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2004, JRC/EU, pp Oral communications Lucas, R.M., Armston, J., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). Regional Characterisation and Mapping of Australian Forest Structural Types from ALOS PALSAR data. Communication presented at the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, 3-7 November 2008, Rhodes, Greece. Lucas, R.M., Armston, J., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Bunting, P.F.(2008). Scaling of Forest Biomass and Structural Attributes through Integration of ALOS PALSAR data: Case Studies from Australia. Communication presented at the Second Joint PI Symposium of ALOS Data Nodes for ALOS Science Program, 3-7 November 2008, Rhodes, Greece. Borges, J.G., Cantarinha, A., Califórnia, I., Marques, S., Botequim, B., Carreiras, J.M.B., Moreira, F., Pereira, J.M.C., Oliveira, M.M., & Mexia, J.T. (2008). Assessing fire risk for enhanced forested landscape analysis and planning in Portugal. Communication presented at the EFI Annual Conference, EFIMED Business Meeting and Scientific Seminar 2008, September 2008, Orvieto, Italy.

5 Lucas, R.M., Carreiras, J.M.B., Bunting, P.F., Armston, J., & Clewley, D. (2008). Forest parameter retrieval from SAR intensity data. Communication presented at the 28th International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 6-11 July 2008, Boston (MA), USA. Pereira, J.M.C., Carreiras, J.M.B., & Oliveira, S. (2007). The impact of fire on carbon sequestration. Communication presented at the Conference The Value of the Portuguese Forest in the Carbon Credit Market, 28 March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. Pereira, J.M.C., & Carreiras, J.M.B. (2007). How Wildfire Risk is Mapped in Portugal: a Naïf, Flawed, and Very Effective Approach. Communication presented at the Workshop SEER 2007 Statistical Extremes and Environmental Risks, 17 February 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). Long- and Short-term Forest Fire Risk Maps. Communication presented at the Workshop Forest Fires, 26 May 2006, Mirandela, Portugal. Carreiras, J.M.B., & Pereira, J.M.C. (2006). Rural Fires in Portugal. Communication presented at the Seminar Fire Investigation, 6 May 2006, Almada, Portugal. Other publications Pereira, J.S., Afonso, A.F., Guerreiro, L., Santos, J.L., Carreiras, J.M.B., Leitão, A.G. (2006). A Reflection about Prevention and Fighting Systems of Forest Fires. National Council of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS), Lisboa.