Summary
Roberto Chávez is a forest engineer and PhD in Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing with over 15 years of experience bridging academic research and applied environmental consulting. He leads the Lab. of Geo-information and Remote Sensing at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, specializing in quantitative remote sensing, field and lab spectroscopy, time-series analysis, and GIS for vegetation monitoring. His recent work emphasizes phenological reconstruction and anomaly detection to assess vegetation water stress, informed by field campaigns in arid regions such as the Atacama. Roberto combines rigorous PhD-level methods developed at Wageningen with practical impact-assessment experience for mining and infrastructure projects across Chile. Colleagues describe him as a methodical researcher who translates complex remote-sensing techniques into actionable environmental insights for policy and management.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geo-information sciences and remote sensing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geo-information sciences and remote sensing at Wageningen University
Forest engineer, Silviculture, Forest engineer, Silviculture at Universidad de Chile
Spanish, English