| Expert Name | Prof. Marx Prestes Barbosa |
| Title | Professor |
| Division | |
| Institution | Universidade Federal de Paraiba |
| City | Paraiba |
| Country | Brazil |
| Telephone | 55 83 333 2355 |
| Email | marx(at)lmrs.gov.br |
| Work Experience | Advisory work and member of several projects emphasizing on Remote Sensing applied to Natural Resources and Disaster Study. Most are related to the Evaluation of the vulnerabilities of agriculture and environment to disasters. Studies, involving graduate students, were done on Soil Degradation (erosion and salinization), Paraiba; Water Resources for Human Supply and Irrigation; and Coastal Erosion. Coordinator of the IDRC Project in Brazil which focused on studies on drought and related social problems in Northeast Brazil. |
| Qualifications | Doctor in Minerology and Perology, University of Sao Paulo, 1988
Post Doctorate, Remote Sensing, University of Manitoba, 1996 |
| Number of Publications | 5 |
| Awards | - Awards from National Institute for Space Researches in 1985, 1990 for active participation on the development of Remote Sensing in Brazil
- Awards from Brazilian Society of Cartography and from Earth Observation Satellite Company (EOSAT) in 1989 for |
| Other Activities | - Coordinator of Remote Sensing Area of the Agricultural Department of UFPB
- Coordinator of the Specialization Course on Remote Sensing and GIS
- Member of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society |
| Publications | 1. Booth, T. (U. of Manitoba) and Barbosa. 1996. Ciudad en Riesgo: Degradacion Ambiental, Riesgos Urbanos y Desatres. Chapter: Lo Urbano, La Degradacion Amviental y Desastres, Una Cuestion Polemica: El Nor deste de Brasil. M.P. Book Published by LA RED. Lima, Peru.
2. Barbosa, M.P. and Silva neto, A.F. da. 1995. Las vulnerabilidades y Mitigaciones de la Region del Alto Sucuru: un pequeno relato. Desastres and Sociedad. Julio-Dezembro. No. 5, Ano. 3. ITDG. Lima, Peru.
3. Barbosa, M.P. and Singhoy, V.H. 1997. Radar-sat Image Applied to Study Coastal Erosion, as Natural Hazard in the Southern Region of the State of Paraiba, Brazil. International Symposium "Geomatics in the Era of Radarsat". May, Ottawa. Proceedings.
4. Barbosa, M.P. and Silva Neto, A.F. da. 1996. Uso da Terra e Recursos Hidicos na Bacia do Alto Rio sucuru com base em Imagens TM/Landsat-5. Estado da Paraiba, Brasil. Principia. Ano.1, no.2. Jul/Ago/Set. Joao Pessoa, PB, Brasil.
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| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
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