Grumets

Consolidated Research Group supported by Generalitat de Catalunya, GRUMETS is a motivated and productive team, consisting of approximately 20 researchers and multidisciplinary, from a rich diversity of backgrounds (geographers, biologists, environmentalists, physicists, mathematicians, surveyors, computer scientists, etc..).

The group has extensive experience in processing of remote sensing images from low, medium and high resolution, including airbone platforms, and has an antenna for receiving terrestrial Meteosat images every 15 minutes. The integration of the fields of geographic information science, Geoservices, standardization, metadata, applied work and software development are also goals of the group.

Group members have led or participated in nearly 100 projects (mostly international-EC, ESA-AECID and, national or local, as well as in collaboration with private organizations) and have published their work in major international journals and conference proceedings.

These are the main research topics of the group:

Geometric and radiometric corrections of satellite images (solar and thermal spectrum)
Research in classification techniques for mapping and quantitative analysis of forests and crops using medium and high resolution images, hyperspectral sensors and lidar. Includes water stress characterization of various plant species.
Lossy image compression and the analysis of their effects on remote sensing products (classification, photo interpretation, modeling ...)
Advanced image processing, including massively parallelized computing and processing
Other theoretical and methodological studies in remote sensing
Development of methods for the analysis of the characteristics and effects of forest fires
Spatial analysis and interpolation, primarily used for climate modeling (for example, the publication of the First Digital Climatic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula on the Internet, visited by thousands of people)
Modeling of energy flows: actual evapotranspiration, net radiation, solar radiation, etc.
Studies of the water cycle
Land cover maps, dynamics and landscape ecology, including global change
Other theoretical and methodological studies in GIS
Metadata: Theoretical and practical aspects: development of a comprehensive metadata editor (GeMM) semi-automatic in integration data and processes, multi-idiomatic support, etc, and contribution to the international standards
Internet mapping and distribute geoservices: implementation and contribution to international standards
Applied studies in GIS and remote sensing
Teaching in Geographic Information Science
Software Development