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Jose Ramon Gonzalez Olabarria
Head of group
PROGRAM / Landscape dynamics
LINE / Precision Forestry (PrecFOR) New tools for forestry decision making
PhD in Forestry Sciences from the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Joensuu (now University of Eastern Finland – Itä-Suomen yliopisto). Agricultural Engineer from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA, 1998), Forestry Engineering degree from the University of Lleida (UdL, 2001), and Master’s in Forestry Science from the University of Joensuu (2002).
He has been working at the CTFC since 2006, initially as a junior researcher within the MEDFOREX project, and later as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow (2007–2010), Ramón y Cajal researcher (2012–2016), and under the I3 program (2017–present). His research focuses on abiotic risk and its integration into forest management planning. He develops models to assess the susceptibility of different forest types to fire and other disturbances.
He has been working at the CTFC since 2006, initially as a junior researcher within the MEDFOREX project, and later as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow (2007–2010), Ramón y Cajal researcher (2012–2016), and under the I3 program (2017–present). His research focuses on abiotic risk and its integration into forest management planning. He develops models to assess the susceptibility of different forest types to fire and other disturbances.
Keywords
Modeling / SimulationsTerritory planningFire preventionLatest Publications
- Mancilla-Wulff, I., Terán, D., Vairetti, C., González-Olabarria, J.R., Weintraub, A., Carrasco-Barra, J. (2025). A scalable AI-driven approach for burned-area mapping using U-Net and Landsat imagery. Applied Soft Computing
- Carrasco-Barra, J., Gonzalez-Olabarria, J.R., Palacios, D., Mahaluf, R., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., Weintraub, A. (2025). Multicriteria firebreak planning for protecting ecological and cultural values under Wildfire risk: A case study in Catalonia. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
- Murray, L., Castillo, T., Martín de Diego, I., Weber, R., González-Olabarria, J.R., García-Gonzalo, J., Weintraub, A., Carrasco-Barra, C. (2025). Deep reinforcement learning for optimal firebreak placement in forest fire prevention. Applied Soft Computing
- Kutchartt, E., González-Olabarria, J.R., Trasobares, A., Aquilué, N., Guerra-Hernández, J., Nunes, L., Sequeira, A.C., Botequim, B., Hauglin, M., Palaiologou, P., Cardil, A., Rogai, M., Vassilev, V., Pimont, F., Martin-Ducup, O., Pirotti, F. (2024). Satellite-based mapping of canopy fuels at the pan-European scale. Geo-Spatial Information Science
- Kutchartt, E., González-Olabarria, J.R., Aquilué, N., Trasobares, A., Pirotti, F. (2024). Estimating canopy fuels across Europe with satellite data and allometric equations. ISPRS Archives