Jaime Paneque-Gálvez is Assistant Professor at the Center of Research in Environmental Geography (CIGA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on land-change science, ethnoecology,
political ecology
, grassroots innovation and citizen science. He is especially well known for his work on the use of
drones
for community-based
monitoring
in tropical forest environments. He also works on topics of participatory
mapping
,
Indigenous knowledge
and land practices, and
remote sensing
of forest degradation.