Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez

Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 December 2025 in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
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Journal Article
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NMNicoll Moyano
Nicoll Moyano
DFDuque Fredy
Duque Fredy
KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez

4 March 2021
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Other
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LULaura Viviana Garzon Useche
Laura Viviana Garzon Useche
KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Gerald CorzoGerald Corzo
Gerald Corzo
GGGerman Ricardo Santos Granados
German Ricardo Santos Granados
The importance of knowing and representing rural and urban development in water management is vital for its sustainability.  An essential part of the management required that stakeholders are more aware of the consequences of decisions and in some way, can link decisions towards sustainability.  For this, a mobile app serious game called Water Citizens has been proposed as knowledge dissemination and to provide a better understanding of the way decisions affect Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A complex model of a pilot region (Combeima in Ibague, Colombia) has been developed, and the model results are few into equations to estimate fluctuations of SDGs in the region. Running this complex model in real-time, for a mobile application, requires an extensive high-performance computing system linked to large and complex network setup. To solve this problem, a fast yet accurate surrogate model is proposed.Therefore, this study contemplates an analysis of methods to forecast sustainable development indicators evaluated through climate change scenarios for a period between 1989-2039. The proposed scenarios associated the public health, livestock, agriculture, engineering, education and environment sectors with climate variables, climate change projections, land cover and land use, water demands (domestic, agricultural and livestock) and water quality (BOD and TSS). Generating the possibility that each player can make decisions that represent the actions that affect or contribute to the demand, availability and quality of water in the region.Consequently, a set of indicators were selected to recreate the dimensions of each sector and reflect its relationship with the Sustainable Development Objectives, as opposed to the decisions made by each player. In addition, three categories were considered for the levels of sustainability: low (0.0 - 0.33), medium (0.34 - 0.66) and high (0.67 - 1.0) for the calculated SDG values. Self-learning techniques have been employed in the analysis of decision-making problems. In this study, the nearest K neighbours (k-NN) and a multilayer perceptron network (MLP) were used. Through an analysis based on the responses of the players and sustainability indexes, a multiple correlation analysis was developed in order to consolidate the learning dataset, which was randomly partitioned in proportions 0.7 and 0.3 for the training and test subsets respectively. Subsequently, the model fit and performance was carried out, analysing the MSE error metric and confusion matrix.Finally, the results of this study will allow to determine the potential of supervised learning models as a decision-making tool for the evaluation of sustainable development, as well as to obtain a better abstraction and representation of the water resource to the challenges related to climate adaptation and water sustainability measures of citizen action, besides generating new approaches for the use of artificial intelligence in land use planning and climate adaptation processes.

28 March 2022
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Conference Paper
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KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Gerald CorzoGerald Corzo
Gerald Corzo
Many regions in the world are threaten by Climate change, and there is a large global concern on the dependency of water contributions from neighbouring countries. In order to understand more how the water contributions from other region affect a river basin, global spatiotemporal information could be used to obtain budgets balance. This study proposes a methodology to analyse the atmospheric moisture balance around hydrological units (watersheds) using ERA 5 reanalysis data sets, allowing the evaluation of the role of spatiotemporal patterns associated with the transport of regional moisture fluxes and understanding how these components modulate regional water heterogeneity, sources and sinks. This study consists of 3 phases: 1) collection and validation of the required hydrometeorological sets and variables and two-dimensional discretization of the hydrographic domain or unit establishing the boundaries for computational analysis; then, estimation and evaluation of the contribution patterns of transported moisture fluxes based on the Eulerian model developed by Brubaker,1993. Finally, for each region, we proceed to estimate the spatiotemporal variations of the atmospheric water balance by establishing the calculation of the precipitation recycling rate as well as the fractions of horizontal moisture flux contributions from each direction or boundary, as well as their seasonality and interannual variability, magnitudes and concentration rates associated with flux divergence. As a case study, the Pamplonita river basin in Colombia was selected. Here we present these results, that have provided valuable information related to the identification of biases in the estimation of atmospheric water supplies, monitoring strategies and hydrological balance.

28 March 2022
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Conference Paper
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LULaura Viviana Garzon Useche
Laura Viviana Garzon Useche
KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Gerald CorzoGerald Corzo
Gerald Corzo
GGGerman Ricardo Santos Granados
German Ricardo Santos Granados
The erratic drought nature and its great spatiotemporal variability make conventional forecasting systems or stochastic forecasting systems very limited in terms of the monitoring of its dynamic characteristics. Therefore, this study proposes a dynamic forecasting methodology based on machine learning models by tracking the spatial and temporal characteristics of drought events.This methodology consists of four main phases. 1) the drought spatiotemporal characteristics calculation and extraction such as spatial aggregations or extensions, geospatial properties (area, perimeter), centroid location and trajectory from their connectivity, which are generated following the contiguous drought area analysis (CDA) proposed by Corzo--- 2) feature engineering and dataset preparation, which is consolidated according to the hierarchy and relative importance of the associated predictor and predictor variables 3) implementation of an intelligent analysis method based on deep neural network architecture (CNN, LSTM) techniques, which combines spatial observation mediated by convolution integrated with temporal analysis for prediction. Thus generating primary results against the future propagation pattern or trajectory of a spatial unit. 4) Analyzing the various model performances based on statistical metrics, validation of the generated trajectories using the area under the curve (AUC) and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and error approach as Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).This methodology is presented using indexes derived from the ERA 5 reanalysis dataset as SPEI and SPI on the Central America dry corridor (1979-2020), where the performance of the intelligent system will be evaluated not only taking into account the statistical performance, but also in the identification and forecasting of those regions with major drought generation tendencies.

27 March 2026
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Book Chapter
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KGKevin Guillermo Barrera Gaitán
Kevin Guillermo Barrera Gaitán
NTNicol Dayana Cárdenas Torres
Nicol Dayana Cárdenas Torres
KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
AVAnoop Valiya Veettil
Anoop Valiya Veettil
AAAnwar Assefa Adem
Anwar Assefa Adem

13 March 2026 in SSRN Electronic Journal
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KSKarel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
Karel Aldrin Sanchez-Hernandez
KTKelly Johana Padilla Triviño
Kelly Johana Padilla Triviño
MCMaria Camila Triana Cortés
Maria Camila Triana Cortés
Large-scale governance of urban and periurban green spaces demands perception data that is timely, multi-site, and cost-effective — requirements that established social science methods are structurally ill-equipped to meet. This paper introduces Environmental Digital Perception (EDP), a concept that treats the spontaneous digital discourse of citizens, media, and scientists about natural spaces as a measurable social indicator, and presents an integrated analytical framework to operationalise it. The framework couples fine-tuned Transformer models (RoBERTa-BETO for Spanish, SciBERT for English) with Zero-Shot Natural Language Inference for aspect-level ecosystem service attribution, a bilingual domain lexicon grounded in CICES v5.1, and Inverse Distance Weighting geospatial interpolation. Deployed on 264,481 records from five digital source types spanning Cundinamarca, Colombia (2020–2025), the pipeline achieves an overall accuracy of 86.4% (macro F1 = 0.850, Cohen's κ = 0.72). A 13-dimension structured comparison positions EDP as a complement — not a substitute — to conventional survey methods, delineating the governance contexts in which each is optimal. Results document: (i) a structurally dominant neutral discourse (~75%) reinterpreted as a mobilisation gap rather than social indifference; (ii) a perception–function decoupling in which experiential ecosystem services capture public affect while ecologically critical regulatory services remain digitally invisible; (iii) institutional governance quality as the foremost predictor of negative sentiment, outranking contamination; and (iv) a statistically significant five-year discourse shift from recreational to climate-regulatory framing (Mann-Kendall τ = +0.91, p = 0.001). Geographic disaggregation into three territorial zones reveals distinct EDP profiles linked to biome type, urbanisation pressure, and governance quality. A three-tier institutional integration model renders EDP deployable within existing environmental governance architectures at daily, quarterly, and annual operational rhythms.