Agricultural Engineer from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (1992), Master in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Spatial Research (2008) and PhD in Geomatics from the University of Montpellier - France (2016). He has 32 years of experience in remote sensing land use change mapping. He is currently Senior Technologist at the National Institute for Spatial Research - INPE. Between January 2009 and December 2012, he was head of the Amazon Regional Centre. He is the coordinator of the BiomasBR monitoring programme, which monitors the suppression of native vegetation in all Brazilian biomes.