Gilberto Camara
Researcher at INPE
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGilberto Camara is a seasoned Brazilian researcher and leader with over three decades of experience in geoinformatics, spatial data science, and land use change, currently combining roles at FGV's Agribusiness Research Centre and as Professor Emeritus at INPE. He has led national and international science organizations—including serving as INPE's Director General and as Director of Secretariat for the Group on Earth Observations—bridging research, policy and operational Earth observation systems. His work spans teaching and advising graduate students, guiding land use policy studies, and advancing spatial data infrastructures that inform environmental decision-making. Based in São Paulo, he is known for translating large-scale remote sensing and GIS research into actionable policy insights, a skill reflected in sustained leadership across academia, government, and multilateral initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
INPE
Github Skills (100)
spatial10
satellite10
htmlwidgets10
change-detection10
r-package10
landsat10
earth-observation10
proj10
satellite-imagery10
time-series10
geospatial10
agriculture10
r9
datasets9
terra9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
e-sensing/torchopt
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
R implementation of advanced optimizers for torch
Contributions:50 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 months
torchoptimizers
e-sensing/sitsdata
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Data for demos and test of the sits package
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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