Alen Miranda

Graduate (egresado) of Natural Resources Conservation Engineering at Universidad Austral de Chile (professional degree award pending), specialized in remote sensing, GIS, programming, data analysis, data visualization, cartography and satellite image analysis. Thesis on snow algae detection with Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope in Google Earth Engine and R. Member of the UACh Geomatics Laboratory, processing LiDAR in R on Linux and an HPC cluster.

Available immediately for remote freelance, part-time or full-time work.

Laboratory Member at Geomatics Laboratory, Universidad Austral de Chile (2025 – Present)

• Process LiDAR data in R (lidR) on Linux to analyze forest structure.
• Build Docker containers, publish them to Docker Hub and submit SLURM jobs on the Patagón HPC cluster.

Research Intern at Lab of Assisted Artificial Recognition (LAAR), UACh (2024 – 2024)

• Built a historical tide database for two FONDECYT projects on satellite detection of algae.

Research Volunteer at FONDECYT Iniciación Project 11231083, UACh (2024-01 – 2025-01)

• Projected future urban growth in TerrSet’s Land Change Modeler for the project’s wildfire ignition model.

Teaching Assistant at Universidad Austral de Chile (2023 – 2024)

• Reviewed student assignments for Remote Sensing and GIS (informal teaching assistant, 2024).
• Taught Python geoprocessing to about 10 students with live code walkthroughs (Geospatial Analysis with Python, 2024).
• Guided about 20 students through data management in RStudio (Biostatistics, 2023).

Natural Resources Conservation Engineering (Ingeniería en Conservación de Recursos Naturales) in Natural Resources Conservation Engineering – Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (2021 – 2026)