Larissa Marques Freguete

Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center
Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab
24 Colovos Road
Durham, New Hampshire 03824

Larissa Marques Freguete has a B.Sc. in Oceanography and an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from UFES, Brazil, and an M.Sc. in Geospatial Systems Engineering from TAMUCC, US. She has experience in data geoprocessing, image processing, and automatic detection of oceanic vortices. She also has experience with LiDAR scanning systems for indoor and outdoor mapping, point cloud processing, and UAS-based bathymetric mapping techniques for coastal areas. Larissa is particularly enthusiastic about applying GeoAI to marine science, with a special focus on bathymetric data for habitat mapping and seafloor bedforms classification.

She was a part of the Marine Geoscience Laboratory (LaboGeo) where she worked on data geoprocessing and publishing, database management system construction, and training and development of the UAS-based mapping group. Due to her master's studies in UAS-based photobathymetry mapping and LaboGeo's research nature, she started to aspire to gain more knowledge in bathymetric surveying. She sees the GEBCO/Nippon training program as a great opportunity to acquire these skills. Her desire is to return to her home country and contribute more to her previous research group by utilizing all the skills she has acquired through the program.

Larissa enjoys volleyball, water sports, and outdoor activities in her free time. She is also keen on learning and exploring new things.