Welcome to my research page!
I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Remote Sensing Division of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil. My research interests lie on combining geomatics and modeling to study and model spatial and temporal ecological processes on wetland environments, at the landscape and ecosystem levels. I am especially interested in understanding and predicting the effects of climatic and environmental change on wetland vegetation ecology and biogeochemistry.
My current research focus on assessing the contribution of aquatic plants (macrophytes) to the carbon balance of the Amazon floodplain, and its susceptibility to climate change. Amazonian macrophytes are associated with the highest methane emission rates in the floodplain, and also exhibit the highest degree of variability both in space (distibution) and time (productivity), thus representing one of the primary sources of uncertainty in current carbon cycle models for flooded Amazon ecosystems.
I work with optical (Landsat, MODIS, CBERS) and radar (Radarsat, Envisat ASAR, ALOS PALSAR, JERS-1) satellite imagery. Some of the software I use on my research includes ESRI ArcGIS, RSI ENVI, PCI Geomatics, Definiens Developer (eCognition), Clark Labs IDRISI and the free SPRING remote sensing/GIS platofrm. I also use the R statistical scripting language for most of my data analysis and modeling, and use LaTeX for manuscript composition and editing.
Please navigate through the links at the top of the page to find out more about my current activities, research, academic background and publications. Please be welcome to contact me both through the comments sections on the website and through my e-mail.
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