Marcelo de Carvalho Alves
Dr. Marcelo de Carvalho Alves is associate professor at the Federal University de Lavras, Brazil.
His education included graduation (2001), master (2003), doctoral in Agronomy, thesis in Crop
Sciences (2006) and a Post-Doctoral in Agricultural Engineering in Federal University of Lavras,
Brazil (2008). He has varied research interests and has published on surveying, remote sensing,
geocomputation and agriculture applications. He has over 20 years of extensive experience in data
science, digital image processing and modeling using multiscale, multidisciplinary, multispectral
and multitemporal concepts applied to different environments. Experimental field-sites included
a tropical forest, savanna, wetland, and agricultural fields in Brazil. His research has been predominantly
funded by CNPq, CAPES, FAPEMIG and FAPEMAT. Over the years, he has built
up a large portfolio of research grants mostly relating to applied and theore
