She received his Ph.D. in electrical engeneering (Image Processing) from UNAM, México. She is a professor of remote sensing, GIS, image processing in Centro Geo and UNAM. His research areas are remote sensing for natural resource management and enviromental monitoring and in areas of statistical pattern recognition, signal/image processing, fusion imagen, reconstruction image. She is review of IGARSS, Information fusion, and mexican journals.
Part of the book: Evapotranspiration
Part of the book: Planet Earth 2011
Part of the book: Fuzzy Logic
Part of the book: Remote Sensing
This work shows advances in the field of water body monitoring with radar images. Particularly, a monitoring procedure is developed to define the extension and frequency of inundation for continental waters of the Grijalva-Usumacinta basin, in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. This is a region located in the Mexican tropical wet and under its meteorological conditions, radar technology can be used to characterize monthly inundation frequency. The identification of water bodies were obtained by processing images at a monthly intervals captured by Sentinel-1A during 2015 having kappa indices and overall accuracy higher than 0.9. The chapter describes the seasonal variability of these water bodies, and at the same time, the relationship with human settlements located in their neighborhood. To do this, a proximity analysis was carried out to emphasize the importance of spatial-temporal studies of superficial water bodies, linked to an urban and a rural area. This information is useful to investigate changes in the ecosystem, as well as risks to human settlements, and as a contribution for a comprehensive management of hydric resources.
Part of the book: Water Challenges of an Urbanizing World