ESR & ER
Lucia Yáñez Rausell
Land of origin: Spain

Curriculum vitae

Appointment path:
  • 15 October 2007 - 15 October 2009: Wageningen University, WUR, the Netherlands
  • 15 October 2009 - 15 October 2010: ISBE, Czech Republic
  • 15 October 2010 - 15 October 2011: Additional year WUR
Research title:
Using radiative transfer modelling to bridge scaling gaps
in boreal forest

Research proposal:
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Supervisors:
  • Prof.dr. Michael Schaepman (WUR)
  • Dr. Jan Clevers (WUR)
  • Dr. Zbynek Malenovský (ISBE)
Career development plan: Realised training components:
  • Post-Graduate Courses:
    • Information Literacy, organized by Wageningen Library at WUR, November 2007, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • 2 courses in IDL programming organized by CREASO in December 2007, Germany (Attended), and by WUR in February 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Fire as a Driver of System Processes organized by PE&RC graduate school at WUR, April 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • PhD Competence Assessment organized by PE&RC graduate school at WUR, April 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Basic Statistics organized by PE&RC graduate school at WUR, June 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Advance statistics organized by PE&RC graduate school at WUR, June 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Techniques for Writing and Presenting a Scientific Paper organized by PE&RC graduate school at WUR, October 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Presentation skills organized by WGS at WUR, January 2009 (Attended)
    • Summer Course Inverse Modeling for Improving Environmental and Ecological Models at Amsterdam Graduate School of Sciences, July 2009, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • HYPER-I-NET e-learning courses (in progress)

  • Attendance to local seminars and workshops:
    • International workshop ”1st WIMEK workshop on Earth Observation and crop growth modeling”, October 2007, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • International workshop ”Sensing a Changing World”, November 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • “Remote Sensing of the environment” workshop, organized by Centre of Geo-Information and Remote Sensing at WUR, January 2009, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • Seminar on Remote Sensing organized by Institute for Environmental studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, May 2009, The Netherlands (Attended)

  • Attendance to Wageningen University PE&RC graduate school annual meetings and seminars offered for PhD students:
    • PE&RC Seminar day -Farming Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa, January 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • “How to do a PhD in 4 years” workshop April 2008, The Netherlands (Attended)
    • PE&RC day workshop "Expect the Unexpected in Research”, November 2008, Netherlands (Attended)

  • Attendance to HYPER-I-NET activities
    • 1st HYPER-I-NET summer school, October 2007, Spain (Attended)
    • 2nd HYPER-I-NET summer school, September 2008, Netherlands (Attended)
    • Mid-term meeting, March 2009, Germany (Attended)
    • 3rd HYPER-I-NET summer school, September 2009, Italy (Attended)

  • Contribution and attendance to other international conferences and workshops
    • XXI ISPRS Congress, 3-11 July 2008, Beijing (Poster contribution)
    • 2nd workshop of PHYSENSE (Nordic Network on physically based remote sensing of forest), June 2008, Finland (Attended)

  • Other realized training activities
    • Participation in flight/field campaign within ECOCHANGE project aiming to get experience in hyperspectral airborne AISA flights and simultaneous field measurements of grass optical properties and validation targets. July and August, 2008. Col du Lautaret, Vallée le Guisane, French Alps
    • Design of a training and supervision plan for the full project during the first 6 months of appointment which was reviewed and approved by a scientific committee at Wageningen University
    • Writing of a full project proposal for the HYPER-I-NET project during the first 6 months of appointment which is being peer-reviewed by a scientific committee at Wageningen University
    • Participation in flight/field campaign organization in Sumava Mountains National Park, Czech Republic for hyperspectral airborne AISA flight and needle optical properties measurements. May 2009. Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Realised publications:
  • Yáñez, L., Homolová, L., Malenovský, Z., Schaepman, M., 2008. Geometrical and Structural Parameterization of Forest Canopy Radiative Transfer by LIDAR Measurements. International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 37 (Part B7), 45-50
Contact Address:
Lucia Yáñez Rausell
Centre for Geo-Information
Wageningen University
P.O. Box 47
6700 AA Wageningen
the Netherlands
Tel: +31 317 481575
Fax: +31 317 419000
e-mail: lucia_yanez AT hyperinet.eu