Summary
Paulo Murillo is a professor at Colombia’s Universidad de Tolima who worked as a postdoctoral researcher for NASA after completing his PHD at the Oregon State University.
In this interdialogue we explore how the innovative use of satellite data is providing fresh insight into land use in Colombia, and globally. We talk about some of the findings in his research, including changes in land use following the country’s peace agreement with the marxist guerilla group FARC.
Paulo also explains his strategy to both “pixelize the social” and “socialize the pixel,” and speaks about how Artificial Intelligence is helping to process remote sensing data and detect complex patterns in land use change.
Timestamps
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:06:58 – Interdisciplinary collaborations in Land System Science
00:10:09 – Socializing the pixel and pixelizing the social: using satellite data to understand social drivers of land use change
00:19:48 – Uncovering land use change patterns in the Andes-Amazon and Choco ecoregions of Colombia: roads, gold mining and cow pastures
00:30:50 – Topography and hydrology: challenges in remote sensing science
00:35:37 – Deforestation and conflict: comparing land use change patterns during and after Colombia’s civil war
00:43:07 – From local to regional to global : AI, NASA’s Pangea Project and the high-tech future of Land System Science
