About Paulo Penteado

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About

Data Visualization Developer at the Science Data Visualization Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Software development for visualization of planetary and Earth observation missions. Currently working on image processing, geolocation and visualization software for Solar System and Earth remote sensing observations.

Until January/2016, post doctoral researcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University.

Main areas of recent work

• Remote Sensing
  • Software development for processing and visualization of remote sensing observations.
    • Georeferencing of observations, generation of derived products, development of automated pipelines and interactive data browsers
    • One of the developers of OMINAS, a suite of tools for instrument-independent processing of remote sensing observations of Solar System bodies.
    • Development of visualizations of Near-Real-Time AIRS data.
    • Development of planning tools for the MAIA instrument
    • Development of planning tools for the WISPR instrument to fly on the Parker Solar Probe.

• Planetary Sciences
  • Development of databases of remote sensing observations of Solar System bodies.
    • One such project, under development, is the online version of titanbrowse, for exploration, processing and visualization of observations of Titan and other bodies.
  • Development pp_ssvo, of a database of all archived observations of all small Solar System bodies.
  • Photometry of small Solar System bodies from archived observations, to obtain colors from the UV to the IR, for a better classification and characterization of large numbers of objects.
  • Detection and characterization of faint TNO (Trans-Neptunian Objects) in Hubble Space Telescope data, both from dedicated observations and from the Frontier Fields archived data.
  • Cassini VIMS and ground-based observations of Titan’s atmosphere and surface:
    • Determination of the temporal and spatial methane and haze variations on Titan’s atmosphere.
    • Analysis of VIMS observations of Titan’s surface and lower atmosphere, specially to characterize the occurrence of spectrally distinct features, their distribution and temporal variation.

• Computational Astronomy
  • General software development for computational sciences, specially in IDL
    • Maintainer of the IDL Coyote website and one of the contributors to the IDL Coyote libraries, inherited from David Fanning.
  • Visualization
  • Databases
  • Data processing
  • Radiative transfer algorithms
  • System administration and software development for parallel computing on clusters and GPUs.

Some other works

• System administration for the computer GINA (GPUs para o INCT-A), for GPU computing
• Implementation and testing of the large-scale IAG/Unicsul cluster
• Software for acquisition, processing, generation of advanced data products and archiving of observations for J-PAS
• Scientific Instrumentation for The Aster project: Flight to a near-Earth asteroid

Education

2009
University of Arizona
Ph. D., Planetary Sciences
Study of Titan’s methane cycle

2003
Observatório Nacional
M. S., Astronomy
Estudo da distribuição do momento angular após a fragmentação de um asteróide reacumulado

2002
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
B. S., Magna cum Laude, Astronomy
Elipsóides Interagentes: Um modelo para a fragmentação de um asteróide reacumulado

Contact

email: pp.penteado@gmail.com

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CVs

Short CV (English, Sep 2016)

Academic CV (English, Sep 2015)

Lattes CV (Portuguese, August 2016)

Publications

(See Science for presentations, posters, and theses; see Teaching for lecture / course materials)

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• Current paradigms in parallelization: a comparison of vectorization, OpenMP and MPI

• Software and cyber-infrastructure development to control the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ)

Yanes-Díaz, A.; Antón, J. L.; Rueda-Teruel, S.; Guillén-Civera, L.; Bello, R.; Jiménez-Mejías, D.; Chueca, S.; Lasso-Cabrera, N. M.; Suárez, O.; Rueda-Teruel, F.; Cenarro, A. J.; Cristobal-Hornillos, D.; Marin-Franch, A.; Luis-Simoes, R.; López-Alegre, G.; Rodríguez-Hernández, M. A. C.; Moles, M.; Ederoclite, A.; Varela, J.; Vazquez Ramió, H.; Díaz-Martín, M. C.; Iglesias-Marzoa, R.; Maicas, N.; Lamadrid, J. L.; Lopez-Sainz, A.; Hernández-Fuertes, J.; Valdivielso, L.; Mendes de Oliveira, C.; Penteado, P.; Schoenell, W.; Kanaan, A.

Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9152, id. 915215 21 pp. (2014). (SPIE Homepage)

• Goals and strategies in the global control design of the OAJ Robotic Observatory

Rueda-Teruel, S.; Yanes-Díaz, A.; Antón, J. L.; Rueda-Teruel, F.; Moles, M.; Cenarro, A. J.; Marín-Franch, A.; Ederoclite, A.; Gruel, N.; Varela, J.; Cristobal-Hornillos, D.; Chueca, S.; Díaz-Martín, M. C.; Guillén, L.; Luis-Simoes, R.; Maícas, N.; Lamadrid, J. L.; López-Sainz, A. L.; Hernández-Fuertes, J.; Valdivielso, L.; Mendes de Oliveira, C.; Penteado, P.; Schoenell, W.; Kanaan, A.

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 – 13, 2012. pp.954-954.

• Possible tropical lakes on Titan from observations of dark terrain

• Radiative transfer analyses of Titan’s tropical atmosphere

• Revised the book Modern IDL, by Michael Galloy.

• Latitudinal variations in Titan’s methane and haze from Cassini VIMS observations

• Ground-based measurements of the methane distribution on Titan

• VIMS spectral mapping observations of Titan during the Cassini prime mission

• Characterization of Clouds in Titan’s Tropical Atmosphere

• Evidence for a Polar Ethane Cloud on Titan

• The Evolution of Titan’s Mid-Latitude Clouds

• Observations of Titan’s Mesosphere

• Measurements of CH₃D and CH₄ in Titan from Infrared Spectroscopy

• Interacting ellipsoids: a minimal model for the dynamics of rubble-pile bodies