Teresa Santos is a researcher at CICS.NOVA, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. She has a MSc in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and a PhD in Geography and land Planning. Her academic path has been focused on using geographic modelling to produce relevant information to support urban planners and decision makers, based on data retrieved from Remote Sensing - VHR imagery and LiDAR data,  Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), planimetry, etc. The leading goal underpinning this path was to develop indicators to inform, monitor and evaluate smart, efficient and green urban sustainable solutions towards high-quality living cities.

Research Interests:

Urban sustainability. Environmental Indicators. Solar Potential. Green Planning. Quality of Life.

Main Projects:

• Modelação 3D de Dados Geográficos, Eficiência Energética e Sustentabilidade em Contexto de Planeamento Urbano.
• TRIAD: Vulnerabilidade Social e Risco para a Saúde devido às doenças arbovirais em Portugal continental.
• BTT Odemira - A Maior Rede De Trilhos e Percursos De BTT de Portugal.
• FURBS: Forma Urbana Sustentável – Desenvolvimento Metodológico para Portugal.
• GEOSAT: Metodologias para extração de informação GEOgráfica a grande escala a partir de imagens de SATélite de alta resolução.

• T. Santos, Silva C. and António Tenedório J. 2017. Modelling Urban Thermal Comfort: Evaluating the Impact of the Urban Requalification Project of Praça Duque De Saldanha and Avenida Da República in Lisbon. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-252-3, pages 70-80;
• T. Santos.; Tenedório, J.A.; Gonçalves, J.A. Quantifying the City’s Green Area Potential Gain Using Remote Sensing Data. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1247;
• T. Santos, Nogueira Mendes, R., Vasco, A. 2016. Recreational activities in urban parks: Spatial interactions among users, Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 15: 1-9;
• T. Santos, S. Freire. 2015. Testing the Contribution of WorldView-2 Improved Spectral Resolution for Extracting Vegetation Cover in Urban Environments, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(6): 505-514;
• T. Santos, N. Gomes, S. Freire, M.C. Brito, L. Santos, J.A. Tenedório. 2014. Applications of solar mapping in the urban environment. Applied Geography, 51: 48-57, ISSN 0143-6228.