He holds a technical degree in Geodesy and Cartography from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Pará State, Brazil and a degree in Agronomic Engineering from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. He earned a master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Federal University of Pará. He has contributed to major environmental monitoring and land-use projects in Brazil, including the Uniformization of the Ecological-Economic Zoning of the Legal Amazon, TerraClass, PRODES, and the Ecological-Economic Zoning of Maranhão for the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Remote Sensing at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).