Lúbia Vinhas

Lubia Vinhas has been a researcher at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil since 1997, working with spatial databases, free and open-source software for GIS, remote sensing and other geographical applications.​

She was head of INPE's Image Processing Division from April 2014 to March 2018 and the General Coordination of Earth Observation from March 2018 to June 2020.​

She is currently collaborating with the Program for Satellite Monitoring of the Brazilian Amazon and the Brazil Data Cube Project. She is also leading the design of INPE's new Georeferenced Database Program. Lubia has a doctoral degree in Applied Computing from INPE (2006).​