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Dr Camila Silva

Remote Sensing Scientist

Dr Camila Silva's interests

  • Nature-Based Solutions

  • Blue Carbon

  • Forestry

  • Biodiversity

  • Biomass sampling

  • Carbon mapping

  • Conservation science

  • Field scientist

  • Fire dynamics

  • Forest carbon

  • Geospatial sciences

  • GIS

  • LiDAR

  • Plant sciences

  • Remote sensing

  • Satellite imagery

Dr Camila Silva is a forest engineer specialised in forest carbon stocks. She applies ground observations and remote sensing data to her research, with particular focus on risk assessment of over-crediting and permanence of carbon projects. Her dissertation research quantified the long-term carbon emissions from forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon.

Camila leads the SEEG FIRE project from the Climate Observatory, quantifying GHG emissions from vegetation fires. She is also member of the scientific advisory team of TREES Lab at INPE.

Education

  • Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Researcher

  • Lancaster University, Doctoral researcher in Geography looking at the impact of fires to carbon stocks of tropical forests

  • National Institute for Space Research (INPE), MSc in Remote Sensing

Research associations

  • Collaborating researcher with INPE and IPAM in Brazil to better understanding forest degradation impacts in the Amazon

Learn more about Camila's academic history and publications