Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid
Higher Technical School of Agronomic, Food and Biosystems Engineering
Email: ignacio.zavala.morencos@upm.es

FORMATION

• Agricultural Technical Engineer
• Bachelor of Geography
• PhD from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Program: Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Graphic Engineering)

TEACHING

• Associate Professor of the Department of Agroforestry Engineering of the ETSIAAB with teaching in Representation Systems, Topography, Cartography, Geographic Information Systems and SGNS.
• Docentia (2017-2022): Excellent

LINES OF RESEARCH

• Accuracy of TDMs obtained from satellite imagery.
• Landscape archaeology with satellite techniques: cross-analysis of paleoenvironmental evidence and the configuration of the current landscape.
• Precision positioning of archaeobotanical and archaeological data for LANDSAT TM and Aster image processing in the project «Ecological catastrophes in the Eurasian steppe during the Bronze Age, Kargaly (Orenburg Region, Russian Federation)».
• Analysis of the performance of packaging machines using laser scanners.
• Precision mapping in archaeological excavations in the project «Human Origins in East Africa: Archaeological Excavations in the Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)».
• Design and pre-establishment using GIS simulations and GNSS observations for remote areas of a geodetic network in the Olduvai Gorge.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in spatial analysis processes with GIS.

https://portalcientifico.upm.es/es/ipublic/researcher/302880