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Call for SR&TD Projects Forest Fire Prevention and Fighting - 2019

2019 SR&TD Projects Forest Fire Prevention and Fighting Evaluation Panel

Coordination

Richard Lawrence de Neufville
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Evaluation

Barbara Koch
Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems, Germany
Cristina Vega-García
Universidad de Lleida, Spain
Dennis M. Fox
Universite Cote Azur, France
Johannes W. Kaiser
Max-Planck-Institute For Chemistry, Germany
Josep-Maria Espelta
CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications), Spain
Jürgen Kesselmeier
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Katharine Hammond
University of California, Berkeley, United States
Marie-Charlotte Nilsson Hegethorn
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Mercedes Guijarro
INIA, Spain
Mike Wotton
University of Toronto-Faculty of Forestry, Canada
Sunkyu Park
NCSU, United States

Projects assigned

PCIF/GRF/0020/2019

Artificial Inteligent system for fire detection based on animal monitoring
Paula Alexandra Amaral
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)

PCIF/GRF/0041/2019

Coal-related forest fires – development of tools for environmental sustainability, management practices and prevention
Joana Ribeiro
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PCIF/GRF/0050/2019

Sharing decisions in forests – participatory methodology for public and stakeholder engagement in the protection and valorisation of forests in Portugal
Elisabete Figueiredo
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GRF/0058/2019

Real-Time Forest and Biomass Survey
Rui Duarte
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID/INESC/IST/ULisboa)

PCIF/GRF/0089/2019

StoryFire: A Serious Game for Wildfire Prevention and Education based on Interactive Storytelling Techniques
João Ferreira
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID/INESC/IST/ULisboa)

PCIF/GRF/0104/2019

cogniTive Robotics for forEstry fuel mANagemenT
Micael Santos Couceiro
Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR)

PCIF/GRF/0116/2019

Integração de dados de diferentes satelites para mapear combustiveis florestais: o papel da detecção remota para uma efectiva gestão dos combustiveis florestais
Sérgio Godinho
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PCIF/GRF/0137/2019

Pre and Post- Fire Fuel Management: monitoring of load and moisture content and forest regeneration (FUELManager)
Célia Marina Pedroso Gouveia
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

PCIF/GRF/0141/2019

An Optimization Framework to reduce Forest Fire
Filipe Alvelos
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PCIF/GRF/0179/2019

IGNITE: Regional networks for the valorization of woody biomass for heating and cooling
Alexandra Marques
INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)

PCIF/GRF/0182/2019

Information models and Risk Management of Forests with Artificial Intelligence
Marisa Pinheiro
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PCIF/GFC/0131/2019

Development of new fire-extinguishing agents based on self-hardening sol-gel foams
Svitlana Kopyl
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GFC/0134/2019

High-Performance Computing of Wildland Fires via Computational Fluid Dynamics

Duarte Manuel Salvador Freire Silva de Albuquerque
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC)

PCIF/MOS/0012/2019

CorkNut – Mixed Quercus suber and Pinus pinea forests: management for products valorization, biodiversity and forest fires prevention
Alexandra Correia
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (INIAV)

PCIF/MOS/0071/2019

Prescribed burning, fire risk and eucalypts productivity: from research to practice
Sofia Caçoilo Corticeiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/MOS/0174/2019

FIRELAN - Seeking a Fire-resilient Landscape
Maria Manuela Cordes Cabêdo Sanches Raposo de Magalhães
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PCIF/GVB/0019/2019

Upgrade of Forest Biomass for the production of biogas and added-value products
Maria da Conceição Fernandes
Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo (CEBAL)

PCIF/GVB/0021/2019

Sustainable biomass mobilisation by rural stakeholders: Collaborative strategies for fire resilience
Ricardo Luís Teles de Carvalho
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GVB/0023/2019

Forest Product Engineering
Ricardo Jorge Nogueira Santos
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PCIF/GVB/0034/2019

BioValChar - Sustainable valorisation of residual biomass for biochar
Luís António da Cruz Tarelho
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GVB/0042/2019

Goats-Fire-Medicinal Value - Goat grazing for fire prevention and valorization of the vegetable community towards their nutraceutical properties.
Joana Patrícia Araújo Ferreira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PCIF/GVB/0045/2019

CLEANING FORESTS: BIOMASS OR “BIOMESS” TO ENERGY?
Célia dos Anjos Alves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GVB/0054/2019

Valorisation of agroforest residual biomass as a vector for a circular economy and fire prevention
Ana Filipa da Silva Ferreira
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC)

PCIF/GVB/0057/2019

Added value of forest biomass as a tool in forest fire risk management.
Sofia Knapic
SERQ - CENTRO DE INOVAÇÃO E COMPETÊNCIAS DA FLORESTA - ASSOCIAÇÃO (SERQ)

PCIF/GVB/0083/2019

Sustainable Supply Chain Management Model for Residual Agro-forestry Biomass supported in an Web Platform
João Carlos de Oliveira Matias
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GVB/0094/2019

Real contribution of charcoal production to air pollutant emissions in Portugal
Cátia Vanessa Maio Gonçalves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/GVB/0109/2019

Valorization of residual forest biomass by green integrated fractionation and upgrading of natural polymers into ecological biomaterials and bioproducts
Anatoly Shatalov
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PCIF/GVB/0115/2019

Development and Optimization of a Mobile System for Biomass Collection
Francisco Lemos
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/GVB/0148/2019

Forest Lignocellulosic Biomass Valorisation: Sustainable Integrative Approaches for Biorefinery
Luis Alexandre Cobra Branco
NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (NOVA.ID.FCT)

PCIF/GVB/0152/2019

Integrated early stage high economic biomass valorisation of entire Pinus pinaster ecosystem towards biotransformation and fine chemical sectors
João Nunes
Associação BLC3 - Campus de Tecnologia e Inovação (BLC3)

PCIF/GVB/0154/2019

Valorisation of forest biomass into high-added value materials
Helder Teixeira Gomes
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPBragança)

PCIF/GVB/0166/2019

Forest Fire Prevention through Advanced Conversion Technologies for Low-grade Forest Fuel Valorization
Valter Silva
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre (IPPortalegre)

PCIF/GVB/0169/2019

Cogeração utilizando a gaseificação de biomassa florestal através modelo computacional.
Abel Rouboa
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PCIF/MOG/0018/2019

FIRESCAPE-BIOWISE: Bioassessment of fire-prone landscapes: spatio-temporal risk assessment for environmental decision-makers

kieran monaghan
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/MOG/0105/2019

FORVALUE - Recolha, Valorização e Gestão Integrada da Biomassa Florestal
Filipe Baptista Neves dos Santos
INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)

PCIF/MOG/0133/2019

Sustainable fire prevention using grazing goats and machine learning
António Manuel Cardoso Monteiro
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV)

PCIF/MOG/0161/2019

Automated and participated surveillance of wildfire fuel management zones
Carlos Augusto Isaac Piló Viegas Damásio
NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (NOVA.ID.FCT)

PCIF/MOG/0176/2019

A genomic strategy to enhance strawberry tree´s role in forest fires prevention
Antonio Marcos Costa do Amaral Ramos
Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo (CEBAL)

PCIF/MOG/0180/2019

Reduction of fire risk through agro-silvo-pastoral recovery on the slopes of Cabeça and Casal do Rei
Cati Dinis
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PCIF/RPG/0013/2019

PlantForPine - post fire management of maritime pine based on the performance of distinct seed sources
Paula Alexandra Aquino Maia
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0044/2019

Restoration of Forest Soils after Wildfires
Maria Elisabete Silva
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV)

PCIF/RPG/0074/2019

RISE – A novel approach for sustainable soil recover on a post-fire scenario
Cristina Cruz
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (Fciências.ID)

PCIF/RPG/0092/2019

EROSSTAKE - Bridging knowledge gaps of forest managers and scientists on post-fire EROSion mitigation through a participatory STAKEholder approach
Celeste de Oliveira Alves Coelho
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0099/2019

Trait variability in Pinus pinaster for resilient communities in post-fire restoration
CARLA DE ALMEIDA NOGUEIRA
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PCIF/RPG/0100/2019

CATCHEM - CATCHment-scale post-fire Erosion Mitigation: a combined measurement-modeling approach for developing a model ensembles tool to support emergency stabilization planning in an integrated watershed management framework
Jan Jacob Keizer
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0108/2019

Restoration and management of riparian woods in areas affected by fire (RIPfire)
Teresa Ferreira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PCIF/RPG/0110/2019

BIOnFIRE - Impacts of wildfire on BIOdiversity and post-FIRE recolonization processes
Nelson Abrantes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0111/2019

The microbiome during recovery of fire-affected soils
Cátia Isabel Assis Fidalgo
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0112/2019

Sistema criador de plantas biológico, inteligente e multifuncional para estimular a reflorestação e biorremediação de áreas ardidas
Catarina Pires Ribeiro Ramos Marques
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0113/2019

Burned soil recovery promotion using cyanobacteria biofertilizer
Teresa Mouga
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPLeiria)

PCIF/RPG/0124/2019

MULCHAR - Restoring severely burned soils by coupled MULching-bioCHAR treatments: a multi-scale demonstration study of impacts on key ecosystem services – erosion control, water supply, soil carbon, fertility and habitat.
Sergio Prats
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/RPG/0127/2019

Microbiome key role on Eucalyptus, Quercus and Pinus forests natural regeneration after wildfire
Francisca Reis
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PCIF/RPG/0132/2019

FIREfix: Ecological and economic impacts of Fires: Innovation Research for protecting the aquatic Ecosystem
Isabel Boavida
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/RPG/0139/2019

Post-fire reforestation for a Sustainable recovery of forest soils
Paula Castro
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PCIF/RPG/0155/2019

ROP.FUN: A Restoring Operational Procedure for burned forest sites combining soil FUNgal valorisation, and aerial seeding
maria da conceiçáo Lopes Vieira dos Santos
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP/UP)

PCIF/RPG/0170/2019

SeverusPT - A web-based data product and service for fire severity assessment and prediction in mainland Portugal
João José Pradinho Honrado
Associação BIOPOLIS (BIOPOLIS)

PCIF/AGT/0033/2019

SHARE & CHANGE - Share knowledge through digital platforms to increase suitable social and environmental practices in forest fires context
Lídia de Jesus Oliveira Loureiro da Silva
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/AGT/0059/2019

Adaptation dynamics during the management of forest firefighting
Pedro Marques Quinteiro Fernandes da Silva
ISPA,CRL (ISPA)

PCIF/AGT/0061/2019

Evacuation decisions and plans in wildfire scenarios
Aldina Santiago
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PCIF/AGT/0068/2019

Trust, social capital and the role of local communities:For an integrated approach to forest and fire management
José Manuel Oliveira Mendes
Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES)

PCIF/AGT/0072/2019

Bridging science and local communities for wildfire risk reduction
Maria do Rosario Partidario
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/AGT/0087/2019

Youth engagement in wildfire preparedness through participatory radio
José Manuel Pereira Azevedo
Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP/UP)

PCIF/AGT/0144/2019

Protection of old dwellings against wildland fires
Fernando Branco
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/AGT/0150/2019

Ethnographies and economies of fire prevention-suppression in Portugal: Making fire budgets and policies effective
Joana Vaz de Sousa
Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES)

PCIF/MPG/0106/2019

Autonomous gas detector for fire prevention
Gonzalo Otero Irurueta
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/MPG/0138/2019

Intelligent Mapping of Fire Landscapes
Sara Guilherme Oliveira da Silva
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (Fciências.ID)

PCIF/MPG/0147/2019

Forecasting and communicating wildland fire smoke effects
Ana Isabel Couto Neto da Silva Miranda
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/MPG/0156/2019

FirePuma - Forest Fire Prevention through Uncertainty Minimization in Surveillance
Daniel Silvestre
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/MPG/0162/2019

Forest fire risk management in rural areas with an integrated ignition prediction, detection and alarm system
Stanislav Maslovskiy
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)

PCIF/MPG/0175/2019

Modelação de fogos forestais para avaliação de riscos e estudo da piroconvecção em Portugal
Flavio Tiago Couto
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PCIF/SSI/0024/2019

Forest fuel scanning using UAVs for fire and smoke forecast
Ricardo Adriano Ribeiro
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)

PCIF/SSI/0063/2019

Stress Monitoring of Forest Firefighters (SMOFF) System
Maria Paula Gonçalves da Mota
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PCIF/SSI/0123/2019

Intelligent Flying Network for Emergency Communications
Rui Campos
INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)

PCIF/SSI/0129/2019

Collaborative Forest fire detection and danger estimation system using intelligent robots and smart wireless sensor network
José Luis Sousa Magalhães Lima
INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)

PCIF/SSI/0168/2019

New remote monitoring technologies for forest fire prevention
Marcos Martins
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PCIF/SSI/0177/2019

SoLoRa - Solar Powered Internet of Things and Crowdsourcing for Prevention, Detection and Reporting the Wildfire
Marko Radeta
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação - Associação (ARDITI)

PCIF/SSO/0036/2019

Respiratory protection of firefighters in wildland fires
Paula Ferreira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/SSO/0090/2019

Firefighting occupational exposure and early effects on the health of operational forces
Marta Madalena Marques de Oliveira
REQUIMTE - Rede de Química e Tecnologia - Associação (REQUIMTE-P)

PCIF/SSO/0135/2019

Firefighters Personal Protective Equipment. protection/comfort dichotomy: an answer through Design.
FRANCISCO MARIA MENDES DE SEIÇA DA PROVIDÊNCIA SANTARÉM
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PCIF/SSO/0149/2019

Assessing physiological overload of wildland firefighters in fire front through biological exposure index based on blood lactate concentration
Joana Cristina Cardoso Guedes
INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI/UP)

PCIF/SSO/0163/2019

Human and ambient monitoring integrated sensors in firefighter workwear for increase safety
Helena Alves
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores para os Microsistemas e as Nanotecnologias (INESC MN)