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Geospatial Algorithms and Intelligent Analytics

Paulo Penteado

Remote sensing scientist with 20+ years of experience turning Earth, planetary, and solar data into insight. Expert in algorithm development, radiative transfer, and scalable geospatial pipelines for NASA missions.

Geospatial Algorithms and Intelligent Analytics LLC

Paulo F. Penteado


📧 paulo@gaia-geospatial.com
đź“Ť Los Angeles, CA
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Summary

Scientist with over 20 years of experience in developing algorithms and pipelines to explore, process, and visualize remote sensing observations—from Earth to deep space. Proven track record designing mission-critical tools, enabling scalable and automated analysis, and delivering operational products for NASA missions in Earth, planetary, and solar science.

Expertise

  • Remote Sensing: Earth (AIRS, MODIS, VIIRS, ASTER, HyTES, SMAP), Titan (Cassini VIMS, ISS, CIRS, UVIS, RADAR), Sun (Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter), generating data products and visualizations for scientists, stakeholders and the public, including distribution through GIBS, Worldview, Eyes on Earth, A-SIPS, CSPP, DRL.
  • Scientific Software Development: From research algorithms to production pipelines
  • Geospatial Data Mining & Visualization: Interactive and automated tools
  • Radiative Transfer & Geometry Modeling: MODTRAN, Discrete Ordinates, SPICE
  • Data Processing: OpenMP, MPI, EC2/Lambda, CUDA

Core Skills

  • Algorithm development for radiative transfer, observation geometry, and data fusion
  • Automation of bulk data processing and visualization pipelines
  • Mission design tools for observation planning and strategy optimization
  • Remote sensing data mining to detect anomalies, patterns, and trends
  • Programming: IDL, Python, C/C++, Fortran, Java, SQL, Git