Raian Vargas Maretto

Brazil is the biggest coffee productors in the world, with millions of hectares of plantations.

Mapping and monitoring slums is essential to ensure the sustainable development of the cities to ensure a quality of life for people.

Clouds usually represent a big problem for optical remote sensing. A wide range of works have been developed in producing efficient cloud detection algorithms.

Understanding the types of vegetation that composes the land cover on non-anthropic areas and the land use for anthropic areas is essential to understand ecosystems dynamic

Estimating aboveground biomass is essential for generating vegetation inventories and understanding carbon cycles.

An accurate method for automatically mapping deforested areas constitute an important tool to inform and enable deforestation containment policies.

The Brazilian cerrado biome is under pressure, as an increasing part of it is converted to agriculture.

Palm oil is an important vegetable oil.

Sentinel-1, with a constellation of radar satellites, operates day and night, providing freely accessible, consistent, and time series SAR images of every part of the Earth.

The presence of noises, clouds and another atmospheric phenomena represent an obstacle for optical remote sensing applications.