Ailton Alves de Carvalho Graduated in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE/UAST) and holds a master's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Vale do São Francisco and PhD in Agricultural Engineering from UFRPE. He is currently a researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Vegetable Production-UFRPE, with field research with family farming in areas of the semiarid region, developing projects focused on rural sanitation and water reuse for hydro-agricultural purposes. In addition, he has carried out work in the area of ​​modeling in the soil–water–plant–atmosphere system, geostatistics, multivariate analysis, geoprocessing, and remote sensing. In the instrumental area, he develops and calibrates hydro-agricultural microstations.