Evlyn Novo

She holds degrees in Geography and Remote Sensing from Rio Claro, INPE, and the University of São Paulo. She is a Senior Collaborating Researcher at INPE and a Senior Collaborator at LabISA http://www.dpi.inpe.br/labisa/en/ with a focus on remote sensing applications for water resources monitoring. Since 1985, she has taught in INPE's Postgraduate Program in Remote Sensing. She currently works on projects led by Dr. Claudio Barbosa, including MAPAQUALI, the Development of a modular system for continuous monitoring of inland water quality by satellite. The MAPAQUALI project aims to develop a modular, customizable system for continuous remote sensing-based monitoring of continental aquatic systems. The system proposes to generate and provide, for the customized aquatic systems, time series of the spatial distribution of water quality parameters: chlorophyll a, cyanobacteria, total suspended solids, dissolved colored organic matter (CDOM), underwater light field through the diffuse attenuation coefficient (Kd), and alerts of bloom events (especially cyanobacteria). The MAPAQUALI-AI expanded the capabilities of remote sensing tools by developing artificial intelligence and big data to support large-scale, near-real-time operational water-quality monitoring in Brazil, leveraging the INPES DBC infrastructure and processing capabilities.