Rodrigo Affonso de Albuquerque Nobrega

Rodrigo Affonso de Albuquerque Nóbrega graduated in Cartographic Engineering from UNESP (1996), holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering with an emphasis on Remote Sensing and GIS from the Polytechnic School of USP and Mississippi State University (2007). He completed his Postdoctoral research at the Geosystems Research Institute - Mississippi State University (2010). His research and extension work focus on the development and application of geographic intelligence and transportation planning.With 27 years of geoprocessing experience in both the private and academic sectors, he worked in Brazil from 1997 to 2008 in the private sector as a project engineer, operational coordinator of production lines in detailed mapping and aerial photogrammetry, and also as a consultant and professor in geotechnologies. In the United States, he worked from 2008 to 2012 as an Associate Researcher and Research Professor, where he developed and compiled multi-criteria decision models coupled with geographic information systems for transportation planning under the support of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.He has experience in emergency disaster response actions (Hurricane Katrina - 2005) and the British Petroleum Oil Spill (2010) through the Geosystems Research Institute at Mississippi State University, as well as in the legal support actions for the Brumadinho event by UFMG (2021).He resides in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he works as an Associate Professor in the Cartography Department of the Institute of Geosciences (IGC) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He coordinates the Transportation Research Environmental Modeling laboratory, where he conducts research in the two graduate programs he is involved in: the Graduate Program in Environmental Systems Analysis at IGC/UFMG and the Graduate Program in Geotechnics and Transportation at the School of Engineering of UFMG.Rodrigo is an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Geodetic Sciences and an active reviewer for national journals such as Transportes, Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, and Revista Geografias, as well as international journals including the Transportation Research Board, International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, Computers Geosciences, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Rodrigo Affonso de Albuquerque Nóbrega é graduado em Engenharia Cartográfica pela UNESP (1996), Mestre e Doutor em Engenharia de Transportes com ênfase em Sensoriamento Remoto e SIG pela Escola Politécnica da USP e Mississippi State University (2007). Desenvolveu Pós-Doutorado pelo Geosystems Research Institute - Mississippi State University (2010). Sua linha de pesquisa e extensão está voltada ao desenvolvimento e aplicação de inteligência geográfica e planejamento de transportes. Possui 27 anos de experiência em geoprocessamento nos setores privado e acadêmico. No Brasil atuou entre 1997 e 2008 na iniciativa privada como engenheiro de projetos, como coordenador operacional de linha de produção em mapeamento ostensivo e aerofotogrametria, e também como consultor e professor em geotecnologias. Nos Estados Unidos atuou entre 2008 e 2012 como Pesquisador Associado e como Professor Pesquisador, onde desenvolveu e compilou modelos de decisão por múltiplos critérios acoplado a sistemas de informação geográfica direcionados ao planejamento de transportes sob apoio do U.S Department of Transportation e U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Possui experiência em ações emergenciais de resposta a desastres (Furacao Katrina - 2005) e Britsh Petroloum Oil Spill (2010) pelo Geosystems Research Institute da Mississippi State University, e nas ações de apoio judicial do evento em Brumadinho pela UFMG (2021).Reside em Belo Horizonte-MG, onde atua como Professor Associado pelo Departamento de Cartografia do Instituto de Geociências (IGC) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Coordena o Transportation Research Environmental Modeling, laboratório em que desenvolve suas pesquisas nos dois programas de pós-graduação em que atua: PPG Análise e Modelagem de Sistemas Ambientais no IGC/UFMG e PPG Geotecnia e Transportes da Escola de Engenharia da UFMG.Rodrigo é Editor Associado do Boletim de Ciências Geodésicas e revisor ativo de periódicos nacionais como a revista Transportes, Revista Brasileira de Cartografia e Revista Geografias, e de periódicos internacionais como Transportation Research Board, International Journal of Geographic Information Sciences, Computers Geosciences, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science e American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.