I am interested in the understanding, analysis and exploitation of remote sensing technologies, missions and data for earth observation, including the combination with other science datasets, and their application in earth sciences, climate and human systems, at different temporal and spatial scales, to disentangle global environmental changes and trends in our uncertain world.
About me
I am Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, in the areas of remote sensing, radar and microwaves, with experience at different universities and research organizations in Spain, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Since November 2020 I have been positively evaluated by AQU for the Acreditation of Advanced Research & Full Professor. My research and teaching activities are framed in the area of remote sensing for Earth observation, mainly in active microwave remote sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR), in the Active Microwave Remote Sensing Group of the Remote Sensing Laboratory-RSLab, associated to the Signal Theory and Communications Department.
I am associate editor of the IEEE-JSTARS and the MDPI Remote Sensing journals, acting also as invited guest editor for several special issues. I contributed to the Spanish PAZ and the ESA’s SAOCOM-CS missions, in the proposal of the Parsifal mission and I am also member of the ESA’s Sentinel ROSE-L Mission Advisory Group. I was appointed vice-president of the IEEE-GRSS Spanish chapter, and in 2016 I became its secretary and treasurer. From 2011 I collaborate with the IEEE-GRSS Globalization initiative in Latin America, contributing to the creation of the IEEE-GRSS Chilean chapter and the organization of the 2020 LAGIRSS conference, being appointed as Latin America liaison in 2019. I am also co-chair of the Tutorial Technical Committee of the Indian 2020 InGARSS conference. Finally, from July 2020 I am also Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE-GRSS.
My interests also cover other remote sensing imaging technologies and the combined use for environmental monitoring and to mitigare climate change effects.
Research
SAR polarimetry (PolSAR)
I am interested in the understanding, analysis and exploitation of remote sensing technologies, missions and data for earth observation, including the combination with other science datasets, and their application in earth sciences, climate and human systems, at different temporal and spatial scales, to disentangle global environmental changes and trends in our uncertain world.
Multidimenisonal SAR
Understanding, characterization, processing and exploitation of SAR, Interferometric SAR, Polarimetric SAR, Polarimetric SAR Interferometric, Tomographic SAR data and multitemporal SAR data.
Speckle noise
Analysis of speckle noise effects on the extraction of qualitative and quantitative information from SAR data.
Data representation
Single-polarization and Polarimetric SAR image analysis based on transformed domains. My works have contributed to the use of the Wavelet Transform for SAR Interferometric data and the introduction of the Binary Partition Trees as efficient tool for the exploitation of multidimensional SAR data.
SAR data aplications
Ship and oil spill detection.
Exploitation of polarimetric diversity in Differential SAR Interferometry to improve the estimation of terrain subsidence.
SAR systems development
Design, analysis and exploitation of SAR sensors. I have participated in the design of ground based SAR sensors in monostatic and bistatic geometries and the exploitation of SAR sensors onboard UAV platforms and. I have contributed in the Spanish PAZ X-band and the ESA L-band SAOCOM-CS and ROSE-L missions.
Contact
LOCATION

Signal Theory and Communications Dept. (TSC)
CommSensLab | María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC)
Bldg D3 Room 203 | Jordi Girona 1-3 | 08034 Barcelona | Spain
CONTACT

P: (+34) 93 401 6785
carlos [dawt] lopezmartinez [at] upc [dawt] edu
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