Shamil Maksyutov Shamil Maksyutov is a Specialist at the Satellite Observation Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. His research interest is with the development of inverse models using satellite observations of greenhouse gases for emission estimation at global, regional, and country scale. He published more than 190 research papers and served as lead author for 2019 Refinement to 2006 IPCC Guidelines on national emission inventories.
Adam J. Mathews Adam J. Mathews is an Associate Professor of Geography at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. His research incorporates remote sensing technologies and creates and/or adapts a variety of geospatial methodologies to study environmental processes. Specifically, he focuses on urban areas and vegetation using three‐dimensional data from light detection and ranging (lidar) and drone‐based Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry. A broadly trained geographer, Dr. Mathews is the author/coauthor of over 20 peer‐reviewed articles on topics ranging from remote sensing and GIS applications to cultural geography.
Jacob (Jake) McKee Jacob (Jake) McKee is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA. He currently leads the LandScan Global project. Updated annually, LandScan Global is a gridded data set modeling the spatial distribution of population for the world. While at ORNL, he has supported numerous research initiatives through the analysis and processing of high‐resolution satellite imagery at scale in a High‐Performance Computing (HPC) environment, including preprocessing, segmentation, classification, and feature extraction.
Massimo Menenti Massimo Menenti is a Professor of Optical and Laser Remote Sensing in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the Delft University of Technology (TU‐Delft), the Netherlands. His research focuses on surface parameter retrievals from remote sensing, remote sensing‐based evapotranspiration (ET) estimation, time series analysis of remote sensing products, and the application of remote sensing technology in hydrology and climate models.
David Merrick David Merrick is the Director of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program and the Center for Disaster Risk Policy at the Florida State University. His research interests focus on unmanned systems in emergency management, remote sensing in disasters, information systems, social media in disasters, logistics, and disaster planning.
Son V. Nghiem Son V. Nghiem is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA. His research encompasses active and passive remote sensing, electromagnetic scattering and emission modeling, and Earth science and applications. He has published over 120 peer‐reviewed articles and over 450 conference articles. He holds a patent on wind measurements for offshore wind energy development. He received three NASA medals for exceptional achievements in science and technology. He is an AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. His research has been reported worldwide by major news networks.
Tomohiro Oda Tomohiro Oda is an Earth Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He studied man‐made carbon emissions using computer modeling and remote sensing techniques. He is a pioneer of the satellite‐based high‐spatial‐resolution CO2 emission mapping and is the Principal Developer of the ODIAC global CO2 emission model. He currently serves as a Principal Investigator for multiple projects funded by NASA Earth Science programs and as a science team member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park.
Akpona Okujeni Akpona Okujeni is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Earth Observation Lab of the Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his Diplom (MSc equivalent) and PhD degrees in Geography from Humboldt‐Universitat zu Berlin. His scientific research focuses on bridging environmental applications and remote sensing techniques to map and monitor land systems under global change, especially in the field of imaging spectroscopy and multispectral time series analysis.
Xiaoying Ouyang Xiaoying Ouyang received her PhD in Cartography and Geographical Information Systems from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2010. She is currently a Research Assistant Scientist with the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include retrievals and validations of complex land surface parameters and time series analysis of land surface parameters.
Ian Paynter Ian Paynter is an Associate Research Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Earth from Space Institute (EfSI), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Earth Sciences. He graduated from the University of Wales Aberystwyth with a degree in Zoology, completed a master’s degree in Marine Science and Technology and a PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has worked with various remote sensing technologies and applications, focusing on lidar and hyperspectral observations for ecology.
Claudio Persello Claudio Persello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Observation Science (EOS), Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the University of Twente, Netherlands. His main research interests are on the analysis of remotely sensed data, machine learning, image classification, and pattern recognition. He is currently working on the analysis of images acquired by Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring urban areas.
Karin Pfeffer Karin Pfeffer obtained her PhD in Physical Geography from the Utrecht University (Netherlands) in 2003. She then worked at the University of Amsterdam (Social Sciences) before her appointment as a Full Professor at ITC, University of Twente (Netherlands) in 2017. She uses geographic information technologies for investigating critical urban issues such as deprived settlements or environmental vulnerabilities. She also investigates how research can engage with the development of new urban planning practices and address issues of urban sustainability. She has participated in NWO and EU‐funded research programs on spatial information infrastructures, spatial knowledge management, and deprived settlement dynamics.
Frederik Priem Frederik Priem received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography, with a specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He worked as a researcher on the BELSPO funded UrbanEARS and GENLIB projects at the same institute. His research interests include urban remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, laser altimetry, and spatiotemporal modeling of urban systems.
Miguel O. Román Miguel O. Román is the Founding Director of The Earth from Space Institute (EfSI) – a program of Universities Space Research Association (USRA) dedicated to Earth Observation for societal benefits. Román currently serves as a Discipline Leader to NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP satellite program. He is also a member of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability – a high‐level forum of senior officials and scientific advisers that share outlooks, information, and analyses related to harnessing science and technology for sustainability.
Mats Sandberg Mats Sandberg is a Professor of Indoor Environment and Fluid Mechanics in the field of installations, Department of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests include the relation between ventilation of dense cities and the shape and form of cities, the layout of the street network, building area density, and variation in building heights.
Giovanni Sanesi Giovanni Sanesi is a Professor at the University of Bari, Italy. His research interests include urban forestry, landscape ecology, climate change impacts, and ecosystem services. He authored more than 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and conference proceeding papers.
Atharva Sharma Atharva Sharma is a Senior Research Engineer at Amobee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel) in the USA. His main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, advertising technology, and applications to remote sensing and other areas.
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