Ximena Casapía
Forestry Researcher at Finnish Overseas Consultants (FinnOC)
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolXimena Casapía is a forestry researcher and PhD candidate in Earth Observation at Wageningen with 11 years of experience applying UAVs, remote sensing and GIS to tropical ecology and silviculture. Based at IIAP and engaged with international partners like Wageningen Environmental Research, Oxford and FinnOC, she blends field botany and large-scale mapping to inform restoration and forest-monitoring programs across the Amazon. Her expertise spans dendrology and carbon estimation to designing remote-sensing components for national forest supervision, showing she can move projects from methodological design to operational implementation. She has trained local stakeholders in RPA use and produced participatory maps used in on-the-ground restoration, highlighting her commitment to actionable, community-informed science. A multilingual researcher and program representative in academic governance, she pairs rigorous technical skills with experience navigating policy, project management and intercultural methodologies.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Gestión de Proyectos, Gestión de Proyectos at Universidad ESANIngeniero Forestal Manejo Forestal, Ingeniero Forestal Manejo Forestal at Universidad Nacional Agraria La MolinaMaster’s Degree Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM), Master’s Degree Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM) at Lund UniversityMaster’s Degree Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM), Master’s Degree Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM) at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of TwentePhD Candidate Earth Observation, PhD Candidate Earth Observation at Wageningen University & Research
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Dutch
Github Skills (3)
calibration7
image-processing5
python4
Github contributions (5)
xime377/RedEdge-calibration
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:124 commits, 2 PRs, 123 pushes in 10 months
calibrationimage-processingpythoncameras
xime377/UAV-classification
Oct 2014 - Mar 2020
Contributions:114 commits, 102 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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