Teaching
I have organized and taught more than 12 courses covering topics in geotechnology applied to forest inventory and 1 course on drone for forest mapping aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, as well as technicians from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA).
The geotechnology course includes teaching the fundamentals of Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Remote Sensing (SR), along with practical field exercises. The course aims to assist in planning field excursions (in the Amazon for example, fieldwork is often conducted in remote areas, and we need to calculate distances traveled by boat and on foot, determine plots locations, etc.); navigation to the forest inventory site; collection of plot and tree positions; georeferencing of data and map creation.
The drone course for forest mapping involves three stages: (i) teaching basic fundamentals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System and Global Positioning System; (ii) instruction on drone specifications, piloting classes and flights to collect images; and (iii) image processing using photogrammetry software.
