Remote sensing master and doctorate (PhD) at the Valencia University, Spain [Education]

Abstract

The University of Valencia, Spain offers an accredited university Masters Degree and its continuation in a Doctoral Program that provides a formal training to students with scientific and technological basis in a discipline such as remote sensing. These degrees are backed by more than thirty years of research and teaching on applications of remote sensing. The Masters degree in remote sensing has multidisciplinary character with professorship including academics, specialists in the field, as well as other professionals of recognized prestige in the field of remote sensing from diverse range of organizations, such as the European Space Agency, or, doctors associated with remote sensing research units at different European universities. The Masters Degree, with duration of one academic year (60 ECTS), allows acquiring competencies in physical fundamentals of remote sensing, satellite image processing and extraction of bio-geophysical information, field instrumentation techniques and geographical information systems. At the same time, the Master provides an introduction to research, both for its subsequent follow-up with University research groups and in private or official institutions in which research work is developed. Graduates of the Remote Sensing Master who meet the requirements established in the current legislation may join directly the research phase of the doctoral program in remote sensing to start a Doctoral Thesis under the supervision of any of the doctors of the various research groups, which lines of work are described.