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... Carlos Eduardo do Rego da Costa Salema

Senior Researcher

Carlos Salema

Academic position: Professor Emeritus
Joining date: 10-04-2002
Roles in IT: Senior Researcher
Thematic Line: Wireless Technologies
Group: Antennas and Propagation – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
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Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
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SCOPUS

Scientific Achievements

  • Agregação, Instituto Superior Técnico, 09-12-1978
  • PhD, Queen Mary College, 12-10-1972
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 31-07-1965
  • Academia Engenharia, 01-01-2010, Membro Efectivo
  • Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2010, Professor Emérito
  • Ordem dos Enegenheiros, 01-01-2009, Conselheiro
  • Universidade da Beira Interior, 01-01-2009, Presidente
  • Academia Engenharia, 01-01-2007, Membro
  • Academia de Engenharia, 28-01-2003, Membro efectivo
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 01-01-2003,
  • Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 01-04-2002, Membro efectivo (2007)
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-1996, Senior Member
  • Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações, 01-10-1989, Membro
  • Instituto Superior Técnico, 17-10-1965, Professor Catedrático
  • Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-01-1965, Adviser
2Lecture courses
  • Sistemas de Telecomunicações II, , Lic. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores
  • Introdução à Programação em FORTRAN, , Lic. Eng. Ambiente, Lic. Eng. Civil, Lic. Física
5Books
  • C. Salema, Uma Introdução às TELECOMUNICAÇÕES com Mathematica, IST Press, Lisboa, 2009,
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  • C. Salema, Microwave Radio Links: From Theory to Design, , John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, 2003,
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  • C. Salema, Feixes Hertzianos, 2nd edition, , IST Press, Lisboa, 2002,
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  • C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, R. K. Jha, Solid Dielectric Horn Antennas, Artech House, Boston, 1998,
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  • C. Salema, Feixes Hertzianos, IST Press, Lisboa, 1998,
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10Books Chapters
  • R. F. S. Caldeirinha, C. Salema, Mobile Radio Emergency Communications for Large-scale Wildfire Fighting -- Portugal as a Case Study", Chapter in, Fire Safety Engineering - Measures, Policies, and Applications, Chiara Bedon, IntechOpen, London, 2024 | Full text (PDF 7 MBs)
  • C. Salema, Telecomunicações e Informática, Chapter in, Ética aplicada: Novas Tecnologias, Maria do Céu Patrão Lopes e Maria da Graça Carvalho, Edições Almedina, S.A., Lisboa, 2018
  • C. Salema, Instituto de Teleocmunicações — Unidade na Diversidade, Chapter in, 35 Anos do INESC, INESC, Lisboa, 2016
  • C. Salema, Gestão científica de uma unidade de I&D geograficamente distribuída: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Chapter in, 40 Anos de Políticas de Ciência e de Ensino Superior, Edições Almedina, S.A., Coimbra, 2015
  • C. Salema, A. Ferreira, Som, Luz e Cor, Chapter in, Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações, Fernando Pereira, IST Press, Lisboa, 2009
  • A. Ferreira, I. Trancoso, F. Pereira, C. Salema, Mecanismos Humanos de Produção e Percepção Audiovisual, Chapter in, Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações, Fernando Pereira, IST Press, Lisboa, 2009
  • C. Salema, Televisão Analógica, Chapter in, Comunicações Audiovisuais: Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações, Fernando Pereira, IST Press, Lisboa, 2009
  • C. Salema, Comunicações Móveis: Passado, Presente e Futuro, Chapter in, Despertar para a Ciência. As Conferências de 2003, Fernando Ramôa Ribeiro e João Caraça, Gradiva, Lisboa, 2005
  • C. Salema, A Case Study on the Management of R&D in Telecommunications, Chapter in, Portugal - Strategic Options in a European Context, Fátima Fernandes, José Tavares, Miguel Glatzer and Ângelo Cardoso, Lexington Books, Lanham, 2003
  • C. Salema, Infra-estruturas de Telecomunicações, Chapter in, A Casa do Futuro Interactiva, , Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Lisboa, 2003
12Papers in Journals
  • M. Vala, S. Faria, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Effects of Fire Plumes from Pine Needles on Small-scale Fading in Radiowave Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 3473 - 3484, April, 2023,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Measurement Trials and Modeling of Radio Propagation Through Small-scale Fire using Pinus Pinaster Fuel Bed, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 581 - 585, March, 2023,
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  • M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex permittivity study of a Pinus Pinaster needle bed on fire, URSI Radio Science Bulletin, Vol. 2021, No. 378, pp. 14 - 21, September, 2021 | BibTex
  • P. Branco, P. Mateus, C. Salema, A. Souto, Using Low-Density Parity-Check codes to improve the McEliece cryptosystem, Information Sciences, Vol. 510, No. -, pp. 243 - 255, February, 2020,
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  • C. Salema, A numerically efficient algorithm to compute radiation patterns of large aperture antennas, Microwave and Optical Tech. Letters, Vol., No., pp. -, July, 1989 | BibTex
  • C. Salema, J. Figanier, C. A. Fernandes, Estimation of ground scattering in microwave links, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 128, No. 5, pp. -, October, 1981 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Antennas employing conical dielectric horns. Part 1 - Propagation and radiation characteristics of dielectric cones, Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol. 120, No. 7, pp. -, July, 1973 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Antennas employing conical dielectric horns. Part 2 - The Cassegrain antenna, Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol. 120, No. 7, pp. -, July, 1973 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Design of Cassegrain antennas employing dielectric cone feeds, Measurement, Vol. 8, No. 15, pp. 384 - 385, August, 1972 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Radiation characteristics of dielectric cones, Measurement, Vol. 8, No. 16, pp. -, August, 1972 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Influence of launching horn on the radiation characteristics of a dielectric cone feed, Electronics Letters, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 200 - 202, April, 1972 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Propagation and radiation characteristics of low permittivity dielectric cones, Measurement, Vol. 7, No. 17, pp. 483 - 485, August, 1971 | BibTex
27Papers in Conferences
  • S. Faria, M. Vala, J. M. Felício, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, Influence of Fire Whirls on Radiowave Propagation, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCap, Stockholm, Sweden, March, 2025 | BibTex
  • S. Heleno, C. A. Fernandes, J. M. Felício, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, N. Leonor, Development of TETRA Radio Backhaul Network Redundancy Plan for Disaster Recovery in Mission Critical Communications, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCap, Florence, Italy, March, 2023,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Modelling of Radiowave Propagation Through Small-scale Forest Fire, URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting AT-AP-RASC, Gran Canaria, Spain, May, 2022,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Measurement Trials of Radiowave Propagation Through Pinus Pinaster Fuel Bed Under Fire, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCap, Madrid, Spain, March, 2022,
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  • M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex Permittivity Study of a Pinus Pinaster Needle Bed on Fire, ANACOM URSI 15.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI ''Sustentabilidade ambiental no uso do espectro radioelétrico, Leiria, Portugal, November, 2021,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Electromagnetic study of complex permittivity on a medium-scale flat terrain fire scenario, Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, Vigo, Spain, September, 2021,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J. M. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Analytical Studies of Refractive Index Variation in Pine Needles Media under Wildfire Conditions, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCap, Düsseldorf, Germany, March, 2021,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling of Dual Wildfire Front Spreading over Hilly Terrain at 700 MHz, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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  • P. Coimbra, S. Faria, M. Vala, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, N. Leonor, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, C. Salema, Experimental Setup for Radio Characterization of Fire at Microwave Frequencies, Telecoms Conference ConfTELE, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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  • S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, J. M. Felício, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Comparative Study of Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Radiowave Propagation in Wildfires, URSI International Union of Radio Science General Assembly & Scientific Symposium URSI GASS, Rome, Italy, September, 2020,
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  • S. Faria, N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, J. M. Felício, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling in the Presence of Wildfires: Initial Results, European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - EuCap, Copenhagen, Denmark, March, 2020,
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  • N. Leonor, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, A Framework for the Analysis of Wildfire Effects in Emergency Communication Systems, IEEE Computing, Electromagnetics, and Machine Intelligence Workshop CEMi, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November, 2018,
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  • C. Salema, Microwave Radio Links - from theory to design, IEEE II Conf. on Telecommunications - CONATEL 2011, Arequipa, Peru, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2011 | BibTex
  • C. Salema, Radiation Pattern of Plane Aperture Antennas with Large Phase Errors, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 157 - 160, June, 2003 | BibTex
  • C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, TV Interference from Wind Turbines, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 47 - 51, April, 2001,
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  • C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, Radiation Patterns of Shielded Dielectric Horns: Analytical Versus Simulation Approaches, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Vol., pp. 38 - 41, April, 2001 | BibTex
  • C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, M. G. Silveirinha, WIPL-D Compared with Theory and Experiment, Appl. Computational Electromagnetics Society Conf. - ACES, Monterey, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 277 - 284, March, 2001 | BibTex
  • C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, Similarities Between Circular and Square Dielectric Waveguides, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sesimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. 471 - 475, April, 1999 | BibTex
  • C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, Co-Siting Criteria for Wind Turbine Generators and Transmitter Antennas, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sesimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 466 - 470, April, 1999,
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  • C. Salema, F. Pereira, Scene change analysis for digital HDTV using the MPEG-2 framework, International Workshop on HDTV and the Evolution of Television, Taipe, Taiwan, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 1995 | BibTex
  • S. Battista, F. Pereira, C. Salema, MPEG picture coding standards: an evolution towards computer image applications, International Conf. on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques - COMPUGRAPHICS, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 1992 | BibTex
  • F. Pereira, C. Salema, A videophone segmentation algorithm for selective image coding, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, March, 1992 | BibTex
  • F. Pereira, C. Salema, Cell loss resilience for B-ISDN video communications, Workshop on Broadband Communications, Estoril, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, January, 1992 | BibTex
  • J. Afonso, F. Pereira, C. Salema, Efficient ordering of block transform coefficients for image compression, Simposium Nacional de la URSI, Caceres, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 1991 | BibTex
  • J. Afonso, F. Pereira, C. Salema, Codificação eficiente de imagens utilizando técnicas híbridas de transformada, Workshop Computação Gráfica Muktimédia Ensino, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 1991 | BibTex
  • F. Pereira, C. Salema, Error sensitivity of the Modified Huffman Code, IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 1989 | BibTex
  • P.J.B. Clarricoats, C. Salema, Design of dielectric cone feeds for microwave antennas, European Microwave Conf. - EMC, Stockolm, Sweden, August, 1971 | BibTex

Closed Projects22

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
AQSAI Quality of Service Evaluation in the Internet Broadband Access: ADSL, Cable and 3G Mobile Networks (Avaliação da qualidade de Serviço de Acesso à Internet de Banda Larga: ADSL, Cabo e Rede Móvel 3G) ANACOM 01-10-2006 01-11-2006
ART ART - Cooperation with AR Telecom in Propagation and Radio Communications AR Telecom 01-03-2007 01-06-2008
Bridge BRIDGE - Análise de informação multimedia para descoberta de cancro em ambientes de gastrenterologia FCT/ CMU 01-01-2015 01-01-2016
CodeStream CodeStream - Codificação em Rede para Distribuição de Conteúdos em Tempo Real FCT 01-05-2013 01-04-2015
CO-SITE Co-siting of Wind Turbine Generators and Communication Antennas ICP-ANACOM 01-01-2000 31-12-2000
DielHorn Excitation of shielded dielectric horns FCT/PRAXIS 03-05-1999 04-07-2001
HORA Disseminação horária IPQ 11-08-2004 30-01-2005
ILASH Integrated Lens Antenna Shaping ESA-ESTEC 01-09-2003 01-09-2007
IMP IMP - Instituto Marítimo Portuário EID 03-04-2002 19-04-2002
Incentivo/EEI/LA0008/2013 Incentivo 2013 FCT 01-01-2013 01-12-2013
Incentivo/EEI/LA0008/2014 Incentivo 2014 FCT 01-01-2014 01-03-2015
NEUROCLINOMICS2 Unravelling Prognostic Markers in NEUROdegenerative diseases through CLINical and OMICS data integration FCT 01-07-2016 31-03-2020
NQuN NQuN – The Nature of Quantum Networks John Templeton Foundation 01-01-2017 30-09-2019
Pest-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011 IT Laboratório Associado FCT 01-01-2011 01-12-2012
Pest-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 IT Laboratório Associado FCT 01-01-2013 01-03-2015
Programa IST Programa IST ICCTI 01-02-2000 31-01-2003
ProQuNet ProQuNet - Probing Quantum Networks with Quantum Walks FCT, Slovak Academy of Sciences bilateral project 01-01-2016 01-12-2017
RadioAire Estudo de Viabilidade do Centro de Radiocomunicações de Serra d'Aire ICP-ANACOM 01-10-1995 24-04-1997
RESCuE-TOOL Radio coverage for emergency communication systems to operate under critical wildfire environments TOOL FCT 31-12-2018 27-02-2023
TeleTimor Telecommunications Infrastructure for East Timor Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros 01-05-2001 31-07-2001
UID/EEA/50008/2013 UID/EEA/50008/2013 FCT 01-04-2015 01-03-2018
VTINT VTINT - Vias Físicas de Tráfego Internacionais e Nacionais ANACOM 01-06-2008 01-06-2010
5Awards
  • M. Vala, S. Faria, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Complex Permittivity Study of a Pinus Pinaster Needle Bed on Fire, Best Student Paper Award - 1st Place at ANACOM: 15.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, 01-11-2021
  • S. Faria, M. Vala, P. Coimbra, N. Leonor, J. M. Felício, C. A. Fernandes, C. Salema, R. F. S. Caldeirinha, Radiowave Propagation Modelling of Dual Wildfire Front Spreading Over Hilly Terrain at 700 MHz, ConfTELE 2021 Top 10% Best Paper Award. Seven papers (10%) were nominated for consideration for this award by the Reviewers and the Technical Program Committee., 01-02-2021
  • C. Salema, Doctorem Honoris Causa, Doctor Honoris Causa Universidade da Beira Interior, 01-04-2013
  • C. Salema, URSI - Prémio de Carreira, Prémio atribuído pelo ICP-ANACOM em nome da URSI, 01-05-2009
  • C. Salema, Marconi Prize, Awarded by the Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK) for the article published in the Proceedings of the IEE in July, 1973, 01-07-1974
9Miscellaneous
  • F. J. Velez, A. Gomes, C. Salema, Workshop 20 Years of Instituto de Telecomunicações (10th Anniversary of IT-Covilhã), Seminars, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Maio 2012, 01-05-2012 | Link
  • C. Salema, Comissão Permanente de Contrapartidas, Member of Technical Committee, 01-06-2010
  • C. Salema, Concurso para a atribuição de licença para a Televisão Digital Terrestre, Member of Technical Committee, 01-01-2008
  • J. J. Júdice, C. Salema, C. A. Fernandes, Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications, Editor of Conference Proceedings, 08-09-2003
  • C. Salema, Chairman of the College of Electrical Engineers of Ordem dos Engenheiros, National Delegate, 31-12-2002
  • C. Salema, National delegate to the IST Management Committee, National Delegate, 31-12-2002
  • C. Salema, Member of the FUP evaluation board for University Degrees in Informatics, Member of Technical Committee, 31-07-2002
  • C. Salema, Member of FUP evaluation board for University Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Member of Technical Committee, 31-12-2000
  • C. Salema, Comissão de Avaliação de Candidaturas a Bolsas da FCT, Member of Technical Committee, Engenharia Electrotécnica e Informática, 01-01-2000
1Short Courses and Seminars
  • J.M. Ferro, A. J. Rodrigues, A. Gameiro, C. Salema, F. J. Velez, Luis M. Borges, O. Cabral, R. Costa, R. R. P. Paulo, D.R. Robalo, Final Workshop of Crossnet - Pervasive Broadband Wireless Access Towards Long Term Evolution, Portugal, Lisbon, 02-2008
7Conference Committees
  • DSP 2001 7th International Workshop on Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Space Communications, Organizing Committee, 2003
  • III Conference on Telecommunications, Conference Chairman, 2001
  • 5º Encontro Nacional do Colégio de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Conference Chairman, 2001
  • 4º Encontro Nacional do Colégio de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Conference Chairman, 1999
  • II Conference on Telecommunications, Conference Chairman, 1999
  • Matemática em telecomunicações: que problemas ?, Organizing Committee, 1998
  • I Conference on Telecommunications, Conference Chairman, 1997

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