The project aims to integrate ecology, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and remote sensing to understand and predict the impacts of short term climate anomalies on fluvial ecosystems (temporal streams), through: i) impact assessment of historical (recent years) drought events on riparian vegetation with conventional satellite imagery; ii) tracing the effects of water reduction (i.e. hydric stress) on fluvial ecosystems with the last-generation high resolution images and data (i.e. nanosatellites, LIDAR, drones); and iii) results calibration using data obtained with fieldwork.
Featured publications of this Line of Research:
Lorenzo-Lacruz, J., Amengual, A., Garcia, C., Morán-Tejeda, E., Homar, V., Maimó-Far, A., Hermoso, A., Ramis, C., and Romero, R. (2019): Hydro-meteorological reconstruction and geomorphological impact assessment of the October, 2018 catastrophic flash flood at Sant Llorenç, Mallorca (Spain), Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 19, 2597–2617, 2019.https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2597-2019