Vinícius Mesquita
Pesquisador Assistente - LAPIG MapBiomas at LAPIG/UFG
Goiás, Brazil
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Top SchoolVinícius Mesquita is a geographer and environmental scientist with 8+ years applying remote sensing, GIS and cloud-native geoprocessing to large-scale land use and pasture monitoring projects. As a Research Assistant at LAPIG/MapBiomas and a Google Developer Expert for Earth Engine, he combines Python, R, JavaScript and Google Earth Engine expertise to turn satellite big data into operational products for national monitoring. He coordinates technical mapping of Brazil’s pasturelands for MapBiomas and contributes as a senior developer to Global Pasture Watch/WRI, bridging academic research and policy-relevant applications. A long-term member of LAPIG since 2012, he brings deep institutional knowledge of Cerrado dynamics and practical experience in data acquisition, processing and modeling, now advanced by doctoral research in Environmental Sciences. An invited participant at international forums (Earth Engine Summit, visit to UMD GLAD), he is comfortable translating cutting-edge methods into scalable workflows used by governments and NGOs.
8 years of coding experience
Doutorando em Ciências Ambientais, Conceito 6, Doutorando em Ciências Ambientais, Conceito 6 at Universidade Federal de GoiásColegio da Policia Militar de Goias, Unidade Hugo de Carvalho Ramos
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Github Skills (27)
satellite-imagery7
gdal-python7
satellite-data7
google-earth-engine6
pyqgis6
recipe6
google-earth6
earth-engine5
grid5
vector5
api5
earth5
polygon5
python5
javascript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mapbiomas-brazil/pasture
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 5 PRs, 117 pushes in 2 years
vieiramesquita/TheroPoDa
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Toolkit created to extract Time Series information from Sentinel 2 data stored in Earth Engine image
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 92 pushes in 2 years 5 months
area-estimationcloud-computingearthengineearthengine-appsgeospatial-data
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