Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo

Assistant Professor

University of Lleida

Biography

I am a Geographer and MSc in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote sensing (RS) and a PhD in Forest and Natural Environment Management. Now, I’m developing my research at the ADAPTAFOR research group of the University of Lleida and CTFC supported by the projects VULNIFOR and LLEGATS. I’m also involved in supporting spatial data curation and management from other lab projects.

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Interests

Remote Sensing
GIS
Machine Learning
Geography

Education

PhD in Forest and Natural Environment Management, 2022
University of Lleida
Msc in GIS ans RS, 2017
University of Zaragoza
Degree in Geogrpahy, 2015
University of Balearic Islands

Skills

R code developer

GIS

Spatial analysis

Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing data processing

Statistics

Spatial modelling

Recent Publications

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Anticipating future extreme wildfire events by coupling ignition and success of initial attack models

In recent years, the EU Commission has enacted various firefighting policies to combat and diminish the adverse effects of wildfires. The Mediterranean area has experienced an observable extension of its wildfire season, coupled with rapid shifts in fire-weather dynamics, resulting in exceptionally severe wildfire occurrences. As of 2022, the EU has recorded an approximate total burned area of 792,902 hectares, with forests accounting for 66% of this figure (Rodrigues et al., 2023). The main objective of this study is to anticipate extreme wildfire conditions by providing a synthetic product …

Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo, Adrián Jiménez-Ruano, Fellice Catelo, Marcos Rodrigues

Anticipating future extreme wildfire events by coupling ignition and success of initial attack models

Fire hazard trajectories under climate change and management scenarios

In this work we showcase the in-progress results from the FirePATHS project (PID2020-116556RA-I00). The project aims to assess the evolution of fire danger under different emission and forest management scenarios through the explicit interaction of the climate-vegetation-fire system. For this purpose, a methodological framework combining different simulation models of the elements of this system is proposed. The core of the process lies in the modeling of vegetation dynamics at stand scale according to different trajectories of climatic evolution to characterize the state and typology of fuels …

Marcos Rodrigues, Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo, Teresa Lamelas, Raul Hoffrén, Juan de la Riva, Darío Domingo, Cristina Vega-Garcia, Aitor Ameztegui, Lluís Coll

Fire hazard trajectories under climate change and management scenarios

Reply to: Satellite artifacts modulate FireCCILT11 global burned area

Adrián Cardil, Renaud Barbero, Joaquín Ramirez, Cathekijne Stoof, Carlos Alberto Silva, Midhun Mohan, Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo, Macarena Ortega, Sergio de Miguel

Maximum tree height in European Mountains decreases above a climate-related elevation threshold

Mountain forests face important threats from global change and spatio-temporal variation in tree height can help to monitor these effects. In this study, we used the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation space-borne laser sensor to examine the relationship between maximum tree height and elevation, and the role of climate, in the main European mountain ranges. We found a piecewise relationship between elevation and maximum tree height in all mountain ranges, supporting the existence of a common breakpoint that marks the beginning of tree development limitations. Temperature and precipitation …

Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo, Marcos Rodrigues, Lluís Coll, Cristina Vega-Garcia, Aitor Ameztegui

Maximum tree height in European Mountains decreases above a climate-related elevation threshold

Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems

Background Climate change is altering the fire regime and compromising the post-fire recovery of vegetation worldwide. To understand the factors influencing post-fire vegetation cover restoration, we calculated the recovery of vegetation in 200,000 hectares of western Mediterranean forest burned by 268 wildfires over a 27-year period (1988–2015). We used time series of the Tasseled Cap Transformation Brightness (TCTB) spectral transformation over Landsat imagery to calculate vegetation recovery. Then, we quantified the importance of the main drivers of post-fire vegetation recovery (climate, …

Miguel Ángel Blanco Rodríguez, Aitor Ameztegui, Pere Joan Gelabert Vadillo, Marcos Rodrigues, Lluís Coll