Carlos Álvaro
PhD Candidate
FCSH-UNL
Colos, Portugal
PhD candidate working to leverage remote sensing and AI to create municipal carbon inventories and other ecosystem services
About me
Degree in Geography and Regional Planning, Master in Territorial Management with specialization in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. As an intern, carried out several works at the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and also at CICS.Nova. Co-mentor and co-coordinator of the CarboNostrum project, and mentor of the MedSeva project both funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ program. Currently a PhD student in Geography and Territorial Planning, where he explores ways of quantifying and monitoring carbon using remote sensing, with a work plan financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Skills
- remote sensing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Soil carbon
- biomass
- modeling
Interests
- climate change mitigation
- Earth observation