Personal profile
Research interests
- Earth observation
- Geographic Information Systems
- Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI & ML)
- Big Data and cloud-computing technologies
- Land cover and land use monitoring
- Environmental/Agricultural monitoring systems
Biographical details
Alejandro is PhD candidate in Geography with a MSc. in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management at King’s College London and affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Before King's, Alejandro was involved in several projects supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing for decision making in forest, land and climate policy at multiple scales.
Alejandro is confident in a variety of GIS and data analytics tools with particular interest in applied research based on novel data-driven approaches, and the automation of complex and large data tasks using cutting edge-technologies (e.g. big data & cloud-computing).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Geography, Master in Science, Mapping deforestation stages and spatial patterns in the Amazon rainforest using fractal analysis and data mining techniques, King's College London
22 Sept 2014 → 31 Aug 2015
Award Date: 25 Jan 2016
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Thesis
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Pan-tropical modelling of land cover and land-use change trajectories for newly deforested areas
Coca Castro, A. (Author), Mulligan, M. (Supervisor) & Smith, T. (Supervisor), 1 Sept 2020Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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