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Author: Rafael Monge Vargas
Rafael Monge Vargas is an economist who serves as director of the National Center of Geoenvironmental Information at the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, where he coordinates the implementation of the country’s National Land Use, Land Cover and Ecosystems Monitoring System (SIMOCUTE).
Predicting global biodiversity patterns in Costa Rica with ecosystem modeling on AWS
As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), AWS invited Rafael Monge Vargas, director of the National Center of GeoEnvironmental Information (CENIGA) at the Costa Rica’s Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), to share how his team is helping advance conservation and economic development in Costa Rica and how they utilize ASDI and AWS to support these efforts.