David Montero Loaiza

PhD Candidate | Earth System Science Researcher | Google Developer Expert

About Me

I'm David Montero Loaiza, a PhD Candidate in Physics and Earth System Science at Leipzig University, Germany. I am also a researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). My research focuses on Remote Sensing of Vegetation, with a particular emphasis on the effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial biosphere and land-atmosphere interactions.

I am dedicated to contributing to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, particularly in geospatial applications. I've developed several impactful open-source projects, including Awesome Spectral Indices, cubo, and eemont, which have been widely used and recognized in the field.

Additionally, I am a Google Developer Expert for Google Earth Engine, where I create open-source solutions for both the Python and JavaScript APIs.

Open-Source Projects

Publications

Media

FOSS4GE 2024

Facilitating advanced Sentinel-2 analysis through a simplified computation of Nadir BRDF Adjusted Reflectance.

MasterGIS Days 2023

Procesamiento y visualización de datos geoespaciales con Google Earth Engine (Version 2023).

MasterGIS Days 2021

Procesamiento y visualización de datos geoespaciales con Google Earth Engine (Version 2021).