Geospatial Forum with Dr. Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño
Fri, Nov 18
|Jordan Hall Addition 1216
Join us to hear from the original director of the Microsoft Planetary Computer Program!
Time & Location
Nov 18, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Jordan Hall Addition 1216, 27695, 2720 Faucette Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
About The Event
Speaker: Dr. Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño (Impact Science)
Summary: We live in incredible geospatial times with revolutionary computation and a proliferation of growing historical archives and more sensors. We never had so much data, and yet we are far from the dream we promise of leveraging geospatial data for climate change, biodiversity collapse, sustainability, food, … What are the blockers? What are the latest trends? This talk will review the status, promise and challenges of scaling planetary insights using geospatial data.
About the speaker: Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, PhD, has more than 15 years of experience as a scientist working on climate change and socioeconomic issues, within the public sector (e.g. World Bank); the private sector (e.g. Microsoft Director, Mapbox Chief Scientist, Satellogic VP for Social Impact); NGOs (e.g. Director of S&T at climate change NGO “Gain”); and academia (Ph.D. in astrophysics, rocket science postdoc with NRL/JAXA/NASA).
Most recently Bruno set the…