Leaders
Dr. Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Cruz de Aragão
Luiz is the leader of the TREES lab. He has a background in Environmental Sciences from the State University of North Fluminense in Brazil with a PhD in Remote Sensing from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (2004). He is currently associated to the University of Exeter, UK as a Senior Lecturer and is a full-time Scientist at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He is an Associated Editor of the journals Plant Ecology and Diversity and Journal of Ecosystems. He also serves as reviewer for renowned journals such as: Nature, Science, PLOS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Nature Climate Change, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, among others. Dr Aragão has published as first author in the journals Nature and Science. He is an expert in tropical ecosystems and environmental sciences using Remote Sensing and his research focus on: carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, climate and environmental change, ecosystem ecology and remote sensing of forest disturbances, including deforestation and fires.
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Dr. Yosio Shimabukuro
Shimabukuro has a background in Forest Engineering from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. He has a Master degree in Remote Sensing from INPE and a PhD in Remote Sensing/Forestry Sciences from Colorado State University, USA (1987). He has a post-doc from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1993) and is currently a Senior Scientist at INPE's Remote Sensing Division. Dr Shimabukuro carried out pioneering research on the development of the spectral linear mixing model applied to remote sensing data and was also the precursor of the methodologies utilized in the PRODES digital and DETER projects at INPE and FRA 2010 from FAO. He is and Associated Editor of the journals CERES and Ambiente e Água and also a member of the Executive Board of the Brazilian Journal of Cartography. His research focus on forestry resources and forest engineering emphasizing the applications on nature conservation, remote sensing, geoprocessing, forest engineering and environmental sciences.
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Drª Liana Oighenstein Anderson
Liana is the leader of the TREES lab. She is a biologist, with a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from Oxford University (2006-2011) and a Postdoc from the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford (2011-2014). Works as researcher at the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN) in Brazil. Current research is focused on assessment of risk and impacts of droughts in Amazonia. My research aims to understand the hazards, vulnerabilities and direct and indirect wildfires impacts in Amazonian ecosystems, landscapes and population for subsidizing decision making.
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Dr. Egídio Arai 
Arai has a background in Data Processing from Taubaté University, Brazil, with a Master in Apply Computer Sciences and a PhD in Remote Sensing (2011), both from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research, Brazil. Dr Arai is currently a Senior Technologist at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research. His research in Computers Sciences encompass a wide range of applications: Using satellites for meteorological analyses, computer systems, analysis of SeaWifs data and manipulation of HDF files.
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