André Luiz Farias de Souza

Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (1996), with a master's (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Meteorology from the Department of Meteorology of the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo. Currently, he is the Coordinator for Climate Change Mitigation at the Department of Environment and Animal Protection (SEMA) of the Federal District. He was part of the core team of the CITinova Project at SEMA, supporting the Climate and Energy area, as well as the areas of water resources, solid waste, information technology, and environmental education. The CITinova Project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank (WB), implemented in Brazil by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and nationally coordinated by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovations (MCTI) in partnership with SEMA. He worked at the National Supply Company (CONAB) as an advisor to the directorate of agricultural policy and information and was also a senior consultant for remote sensing, geoprocessing, and meteorology through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He was a researcher at the National Institute for Space Research. With experience in the field of climate change, climatology, weather forecasting, and satellite meteorology, with an emphasis on remote sensing of the surface and agrometeorology, he has primarily focused on the following topics: CLIMATE CHANGE, MONITORING SURFACE CLIMATE VARIABILITY, RENEWABLE ENERGY, SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY, SATELLITE CROP FORECASTING, GIS (Geographic Information System), LANDSAT, MODIS, CBERS, ALOS, SAR, SENTINEL, AVHRR, SPOT-VEGETATION, POLDER, surface temperature vegetation indices, surface emissivity, spectral albedo, bidirectional reflectance functions, radiative transfer codes, climatology, precipitation, and statistical techniques. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)