Miguel Castillo Soto
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Forest Management
Universidad de Chile
Spain
Biography
Forestry Engineer of the University of Chile (1998); Post title in Applied Cartography, UTEM (2002); Master in Geography, Universidad de Chile (2006); Doctor in Natural Resources University of Córdoba-Spain (2013). He has been a Professor and Researcher at the Forest Fire Laboratory of the Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation at the University of Chile since 1999. Author of national and international publications related to the design and implementation of computer tools for the management in fire management, modeling phenomena related to fire behavior, damage and quantification of economic and territorial effects caused by forest fires. He has taught undergraduate (Geographical Information Systems, Fire Management, Land Management), Postgraduate (specialization courses in GIS and Remote Sensing), as well as professional counseling and specialization courses in fire protection and defense for national and international companies. He is currently researcher at the Forest Fire Laboratory of the University of Chile.
Research Interest
Geographical Information Systems, Fire Management, Land Management
Publications
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Castillo, M ; Garfias, R; Julio, G; González, L. Analysis of large forest fires in the native vegetation of Chile. Interciencia 37 (11) 796-804.
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Garfias, R; Castillo, M ; Toral, M; Adasme, C; Navarro, RM. Determination of the current and potential distribution of native forest through spatial analysis in GIS. Case study: Forest type Roble-RaulÃ-Coigüe in Chile. Interciencia. 38 (8) .577-584.
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Castillo, M ; Molina, JR; RodrÃguez y Silva, F; Julio, G. Fire vulnerability model in Mediterranean ecosystems of South America. Ecological Informatics. 13 (2013) 106-113.
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Tapia, G; Castillo, M . Proposal of design of a system of towers of detection of forest fires: Application to the metropolitan region of Central Chile. FOREST 35 (3): 395-408.
