Dr. Édson Luis Bolfe

Édson Luis Bolfe is a remote sensing researcher at Embrapa Digital Agriculture and Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the Institute of Geosciences at Unicamp. He is a member of the Agro-Environmental Modeling Research Group (Embrapa), the Research Group on Geospatial Analysis Methods (Unicamp/CNPq), the Latin American Society for Remote Perception and Spatial Information Systems (Selper), and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). He is an ad hoc consultant for projects in funding agencies. He holds a PhD in Geography from Unicamp (2010), a Master's degree in Agricultural Engineering (2001), and a degree in Forestry Engineering (1999) from the Federal University of Santa Maria. He was a visiting researcher at the Center for Global Change Earth Observations at Michigan State University, USA (MSU, 2014), and at the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, France (CIRAD, 2018/2019). As a manager, he served as Head of Research at Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, National Coordinator of the Research Portfolio in Land Use and Cover Monitoring, and National Coordinator of Embrapa's Strategic Intelligence System (Agropensa). He received honorable mentions, such as the Professional Geographic Information Systems Brazil Award (Environmental Systems Research Institute) and the Innovation Award (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture).