Julio Pastor

PhD

University of Southampton

Biography

Julio Pastor-Guzman has a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests include remote sensing of vegetation phenology, validation of satellite land products and applications of optical satellites. Other interests include coding for data analaysis, visualisations -and learning new stuff.

Interests

Remote sensing applications
Land product validation
ESA Sentinels
Land surface phenology
Time-series
Data analysis & visualisations
Bioinformatics
Piano

Education

PhD in Physical Geography, 2019

University of Southampton, UK
Msc in Sustainability, 2010
BSc in Marine Biology (Hons), 2006

Skills

Programming languages:

R (high proficiency - package developer level)
Python (decent knowledge)
MATLAB (able to go by)
C++ (learning)
JavaScript (basic stuff)

Applications

RStudio, Visual Studio Code, SQL, MySQL, Tableau

Languages

English
Spanish
French (B1)

Publications

Remote sensing of mangrove forest phenology and its environmental drivers

J. Pastor-Guzman, J. Dash, P.M. Atkinson

Spatiotemporal variation in mangrove chlorophyll concentration using Landsat 8

J. Pastor-Guzman, P.M. Atkinson, J. Dash, R. Rioja-Nieto

Projects

FRM4VEG

Fiducial reference measurements for vegetation satellite (Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Proba-V) products validation.

GBOV

Ground-Based Observations for Validation (GBOV) of Copernicus Global Land Products.

IBLI

Index-Based Insurance. Incorporation of satellite data to estimate vegetation status and payouts.

ImageNorm

High resolution satellite image normalisation for dense time-series.

S3MPC

Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre.

Teaching

GEOG2007 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation.

Contact

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University of Southampton, Building 44, Room 2101, SO17 1BJ, UK