Identification
            Personal identification
- Full name
 - Diogo Duarte
 
Citation names
- D, Duarte
 
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
 - 7614-F358-AF6D
 - ORCID iD
 - 0000-0002-1599-8956
 - Google Scholar ID
 - 7NJzvNkAAAAJ&hl
 - Scopus Author Id
 - 57195935722
 
Email addresses
- diogovad@inescc.pt (Professional)
 
Telephones
- Telephone
 - 
                           
- 239 796 32 (Professional)
 
 
Addresses
- Pólo II, R. Silvio Lima, 3030-290, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
 
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Remote Sensing
 - Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
 
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | 
Education
            | Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
| 
                                  2015/06/01 - 2020/01/24 
                                 Concluded 
                               | 
                              Remote Sensing and Earth Observation  (Doctorat)
                                  Major in Remote Sensing  
                                 Universiteit Twente, Netherlands 
                                 "Debris, rubble piles and façade damage detection using multi-resolution optical remote sensing imagery" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) 
                               | 
                              |
| 
                                  2014/10/14 
                                 Concluded 
                               | 
                              Engenharia de Informação Geoespacial (Mestrado integrado)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                 "Automatic orthomosaic production and 3D modelation of urban areas using point clouds obtained with photogrammetric open source
                                       software
                                       " (THESIS/DISSERTATION) 
                               | 
                              
Affiliation
            Science
| Category Host institution  | 
                              Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/04 - Current | Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Portugal | ||
| 2024/05/01 - 2024/12/31 | Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal | ||
| 2023/11/01 - 2024/04/30 | Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
| 2020/11/01 - 2023/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
| 2015/06/01 - 2020/05/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universiteit Twente, Netherlands | 
| Universiteit Twente, Netherlands | ||
| 2014/11/01 - 2015/04/01 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution  | 
                              Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/02/01 - 2025/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal | ||
| 2019/09/01 - 2020/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal | 
Others
| Category Host institution  | 
                              Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/11/01 - 2020/04/01 | Consultancy regarding automated forest monitoring approaches with remote sensing data. | RAIZ Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e Papel, Portugal | 
Projects
            Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014/09/01 - 2015/04/30 | EMSURE - Energy and Mobility for SUstainable REgions
                                  CENTRO-07-0224-FEDER-002004 
                                 Master Student Fellow
                                    
                                  
                               | 
                              
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/12/15 - 2028/12/13 | MAP.INVADER - Invasive alien plants mapping over national extents using an automated and multi-scale remote sensing framework
                                  UI0308/MAP.INVADER.1/2025 
                                 Coordinator
                                     
                              Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
                                  Ongoing 
                               | 
                           
| 2025/11 - 2028/11 | EMERALD - Enhanced Multi-resolution Earth-observation using Robust and Advanced Learning for Environmental Dynamics
                                 
                                  Principal Investigator (INESC Coimbra) coordinated by Austrian Institute of Technology
                                     
                              Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH
                                  Ongoing 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/11/06 - 2027/11/05 | COST Action Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science (PANGEOS,CA22136)
                                 
                                  Management Committee member 
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              European Cooperation in Science and Technology
                                  Ongoing 
                               | 
                           
| 2024/11/01 - 2027/10/31 | SAFIR - Sentinel-Assisted Forestry Insight and Research - AI for Climate-Responsive Forest Monitoring in Mountainous Regions
                                 
                                  Principal Investigator (INESC Coimbra) coordinated by Austrian Institute of Technology
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH
                                  Ongoing 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/05/01 - 2024/04/30 | Methods to Enhance Invasive Alien Species Mapping with Sentinel-2 data, Very High Resolution Satellite Images and images collected
                                 with drones
                                  mapINVASIVE-1/2023/UIDB/00308/2020 
                                 Principal investigator
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
| 2020/11 - 2022/10 | UNDERSEE: Improved decision-making with satellite observations and forecasting of water quality changes in marine environments
                                  ESA 4000131085/20/UK/ND 
                                 Researcher
                                    
                                  
                               | 
                              
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
| 2015/01/06 - 2018/12/31 | INACHUS - Technological and Methodological Solutions for Integrated Wide Area Situation Awareness and Survivor Localisation
                                 to Support Search and Rescue Teams
                                 
                                  Junior Researcher (PhD candidate contract)
                                     
                              Universiteit Twente, Netherlands 
                                  | 
                              Community Research and Development Information Seventh Framework Programme Research and Innovation Security
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - 2024 | Methodologies for Land Use Land Cover map comparison and quality assessment and the potential of Lidar for their production
                                  CONTRATO N.º 2123 - CEXC/155/2023 POCI-05- 5762-FSE-000368 
                                 Researcher
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Direção-Geral do Território
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
| 2021/07/08 - 2022/07/07 | Development of methodologies for the accuracy assessment of the SMOS (Land Cover Monitoring System) cartographic products
                                  CONTRATO DE COOPERAÇÃO 275/2021 POCI-05- 5762-FSE-000368 
                                 Researcher
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Direção-Geral do Território
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
| 2021/07/09 - 2021/10/07 | Production of geographical datasets for the update of the Built-Up Areas Map 2018
                                  CONTRATO 245/2021 
                                 Researcher
                                     
                              Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal 
                                  | 
                              Direção-Geral do Território
                                  Concluded 
                               | 
                           
Outputs
            Publications
| Book chapter | 
                                 
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| Conference abstract | 
                                 
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| Conference paper | 
                                 
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| Journal article | 
                                 
  | 
                           
| Thesis / Dissertation | 
                                 
  | 
                           
Activities
            Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location)  | 
                           |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/12 | MAP.INVADER project – Invasive alien plants mapping over national extents using an automated and multi-scale remote sensing framework | European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science (PANGEOS)  Cost Action Conference 2025
                                  Bulduri Technical School (Jurmala, Latvia) 
                               | 
                           
| 2024/07/04 | Assessing the role of multispectral and 3D information in the weakly supervised image semantic segmentation of UAV-orthophotos to reduce image labelling effort for the mapping of woody invasive plants (a.longifolia) | European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science (PANGEOS) Meeting and Workshop
                                  Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria) 
                               | 
                           
| 2024/06/19 | Weakly Supervised Image Semantic Segmentation of UAV Multispectral Orthophotos to Reduce Image Labelling Effort for the Mapping of Woody Invasive Alien Plants | 43rd European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium 
                                  European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) (Manchester, United Kingdom) 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/09/06 | Automatic non-residential built-up mapping over national extents with a Sentinel-2 image segmentation model trained with ancillary census data | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Geospatial Week 2023
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (Cairo, Egypt) 
                               | 
                           
| 2022/06/10 | Geographical transferability of LULC image-based segmentation models using training data automatically generated from OpenStreetMap - case study in Portugal | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) ISPRS Congress 2022
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (Nice, France) 
                               | 
                           
| 2021/07/04 | Addressing the class imbalance problem in the automatic image classification of coastal litter from orthophotos derived from UAS imagery | XXV International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Congress  2021
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (online due to covid, France) 
                               | 
                           
| 2019/06/13 | Damage detection on building façades using multi-temporal aerial oblique imagery | ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Enschede, Netherlands) 
                               | 
                           
| 2018/06/06 | Satellite image classification of building damages using airborne and satellite image samples in a deep learning approach | ISPRS Technical Commission II Mid-term Symposium "Towards Photogrammetry 2020"
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Riva del Garda, Italy) 
                               | 
                           
| 2017/09/06 | Towards a more efficient detection of earthquake induced façade damages using oblique UAV imagery | International Conference on Unamnned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAVg)
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Bonn, Germany) 
                               | 
                           
| 2016/07/16 | Potential of multi-temporal oblique airborne imagery for structural damage assessment | XXIII International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Congress
                                  International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (Praga, Czech Republic) 
                               | 
                           
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role  | 
                              Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization  | 
                           |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/01 - 2024/09/30 | Studying phenology of an invasive tree species based on satellite imagery data
                                  Co-supervisor 
                               | 
                              Erasmus+ Traineeship programme (PhD) (PhD)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/09/26 | Monitorização das faixas de gestão de combustível através dos mapas intra-anuais do estado da vegetação
                                  Co-supervisor 
                               | 
                              Mestrado em Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2019/10/01 - 2020/09/22 | Metodologias Automáticas para Criação de Dados de Treino a Partir da COS 2015, UA 2012 e OSM
                                  Co-supervisor 
                               | 
                              Engenharia de Informação Geoespacial (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2019/10/01 - 2020/09/22 | Identificação automática de zonas de floresta e de alteração de floresta utilizando plataformas disponíveis e dados do Sentinel-2
                                  Co-supervisor 
                               | 
                              Engenharia de Informação Geoespacial (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event  | 
                              Event name Institution / Organization  | 
                           |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/09 - 2024/07/09 | Presentation regarding remote sensing principles and information extraction from remote sensing data
                                  Seminar 
                               | 
                              SPACE Webinar - "Earth Observation with Satellite Imagery"
                                  Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/11/06 - 2023/11/06 | 1st Management Committee meeting PANGEOS (Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science)
                                 COST Action in Brussels, Belgium
                                  Meeting 
                               | 
                              1st Management Committee meeting PANGEOS COST Action | 
| 2023/06/29 - 2023/06/29 | Presented "Information extraction from satellite images - overview and examples" - to IPN Incubator startups
                                  Workshop 
                               | 
                              
                                  Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/06/15 - 2023/06/15 | Knowledge valorisation: the role of research and technology infrastructures
                                  Meeting 
                               | 
                              INESC Brussels HUB – Summer Meeting 2023
                                  Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/05/30 - 2023/05/30 | Innovation Fellows Bootcamp aimed at technology and knowledge transfer between companies and the different entities of the
                                 Portuguese Scientific and Technologic landscape. In this meeting the invited researchers were faced with several challenges
                                 for which multi-disciplinary round-tables were formed aiming at addressing these same challenges.
                                  Round table 
                               | 
                              Innovation Fellows Bootcamp
                                  Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/02/08 - 2023/04/05 | Seed Tech Transfer is a personal development program which aims at enhancing the competences regarding technology transfer.
                                  Other 
                               | 
                              Seed Tech Transfer 2nd Edition
                                  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role  | 
                              Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization  | 
                           |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/24 | Integration of optical and radar image time series with supervised learning and geospatial intelligence for early mapping
                                 of rice and maize crops in the baixo Mondego region
                                  (Thesis) Main arguer 
                               | 
                              Adalberto Francisco (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2024/02/20 | Desenvolvimento de metodologias para classificação automática de imagens de satélite a partir de dados de treino gerados sem
                                 intervenção de operador
                                  (Thesis) Arguer 
                               | 
                              Francisco Sebastião da Silva (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2023/09/15 | Automatização da conversão de dados OpenStreetMap para elaboração de cartografia de uso e/ou ocupação do solo.
                                  (Thesis) Main arguer 
                               | 
                              Gabriel Miranda (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Matemática, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
| 2020/11/27 | A utilização dos Sistemas Aéros Não Tripulados (SANT) na execução do cadastro geométrico de prédios.
                                  (Thesis) Arguer 
                               | 
                              Ana Catarina Garcia Silva (Master)
                                  Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
                               | 
                           
Committee member
| Activity description Role  | 
                              Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/09/01 - 2021/12/01 | Part of the Work Group Agro, Food and Forestry of the INESC Brussels Hub. Activities related with management of science regarding
                                 all the INESC institutions within the broader INESC Holding
                                  Member 
                               | 
                              Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal | 
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/01 - 2025/02/19 | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IEEE, IGARSS) 2025 | Brisbane, Australia | 
| 2024/01/15 - 2024/02/09 | 43rd European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium | Manchester, UK | 
| 2023/01/06 - 2023/08/31 | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Geospatial Week 2023 | Cairo, Egitpo | 
| 2020/07/04 - 2020/07/11 | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) XXIV Congress 2021 | Nice, France (online due to covid-19) | 
| 2019/07/07 - 2019/07/12 | ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Geospatial Week 2019 | Enschede, the Netherlands | 
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role  | 
                              Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/09/04 - 2023/09/29 | Evaluated project proposals for the 2024 National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary within Earth Observation
                                 and machine learning
                                  Evaluator 
                               | 
                              Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal, Hungary | Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal | 
| 2021/05/30 - 2021/07/15 | Evaluation of project proposals for the 'Agence Nationale de la Recherche', France.
                                  Evaluator 
                               | 
                              Agence nationale de la recherche, France | Agence nationale de la recherche | 
