Snippets on Jeison Santiago

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HAND Model Link to heading

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The HAND (Height Above the Nearest Drainage) model is a widely used hydrological descriptor that utilizes Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) as input to provide a detailed spatial representation of soil water environments. This model has shown a strong correlation with water table depth, allowing for the classification of soil-water environments based on normalized drainage potentials and relative vertical flow paths to nearby drainages.

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Remote Observation System Link to heading

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The goal of this project was to capture Transient Luminous Events (TLE) using a remote-controlled camera, with the ability to adjust the direction and angle of the recording device via internet commands.

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The system centers on a desktop PC, which sends commands (azimuth and elevation angles) to a microcontroller. This microcontroller controls the pan-tilt unit to aim the camera, while also receiving data from the CCD camera and GPS antenna for time-stamping.

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Wind Trek Link to heading

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The goal of this project is to estimate wind trajectories (forward and backward) from any chosen point on the globe using global meteorological data.

In its initial study, Wind Trek utilized average climatological wind trajectories for two locations in Mato Grosso, Brazil: Lucas do Rio Verde and Querência. The results highlighted a fascinating finding: although these municipalities are geographically close, nearly on the same latitude and at similar distances from the Amazon rainforest, they experience significantly different agricultural conditions. This difference is due to the origin of the winds affecting each region. During critical planting and harvest months—September, October, March, and April—Lucas do Rio Verde receives moist winds from the lush Xingu Indian Reservation, supporting two crop cycles per year, while Querência experiences winds from arid, deforested areas, resulting in only one crop cycle annually.