Yhasmin Mendes De Moura Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

During the project, entitled “Assessing forest degradation and related carbon loss in the Amazon forest” I have used state-of-the-art remote sensing technologies (Light Detection And Ranging - LiDAR) to quantify carbon dynamics over degraded Amazonian forests.My main research activities are: the scientific development of methods and algorithms that allows for processing large datasets (derived from LiDAR point clouds) to derive carbon stocks and dynamics; to evaluate carbon dynamics over degraded tropical forests and its implications for carbon mitigation strategies; to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the role of degraded tropical forests when considering climate change projections and carbon accounting methods.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo

I received a grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), for the project “Quantifying the impacts of forest degradation in Amazon carbon stocks” (grant number: 313145/2016-4).My main research activities were to develop a methodology that uses high-spatial-resolution airborne LiDAR data to derive rates of forest growth and mortality based on Canopy Height Model; to quantify structural dynamics over degraded areas in the Amazon forest using multi-temporal LiDAR data; the evaluation of drivers of forest degradation (such as fires and selectively logging) and its effects in the carbon stock changes in tropical areas.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo

I was part of the Green Ocean Amazon project (GOAmazon), funded jointly by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (grant number: DE-SC0008383), FAPEAM, (grant number: 062.00570/2014) and FAPESP (grant number: 2015/23868-1) as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). My responsibility was to improve the understanding of landscape ecological processes by scaling observations from the stand level, where they can be more readily observed, to the landscape, where they can allow us to comprehend the “bigger picture” of landscape ecological patterns.My main research activities were: to lead research to improve the understanding of vegetation phenology of individual species at a field site in Tapajós National Forest using a hyperspectral tower-mounted camera; to evaluate how physiological changes in plant canopies affect spectral reflectance in specific wavelength bands; to use such observations to track ecosystem changes over time and in space contributing to unveil canopy phenology using remote sensing in Amazonian forests.

Corvallis, Oregon, Estados Unidos

Taubaté, São Paulo

Voluntary InternshipI worked as a lecture for undergraduate in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Taubate (UNITAU, Brazil).My main activities were: lecture planning, preparation and research; contact and teaching time with students; checking and assessing students' work (including marking); general administration.

Doutorado, Sensoriamento Remoto

Mestrado, Sensoriamento Remoto

Bacharel/Licenciatura, Geografia