Guillermo Castilla is a Spanish Forest Engineer who specialised in Remote Sensing thanks to a fellowship in the European Space Agency. He moved to Canada in 2006 as a Posdoctoral Fellow of the Geography Department of the University of Calgary, where he later became an adjunct professor. In 2014 he took a remote sensing scientist position in the Canadian Forest Service in Edmonton, where he now leads a small group of forest researchers. Guillermo integrates geospatial technologies, including drones, to map and monitor land cover, forest structure and composition, and natural and anthropogenic disturbances in support of forest ecosystems and climate change science and policy

Mr Anton Kuzmin, based at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, brings a strong expertise in Unmanned Aerial Systems-based applications for forestry and biodiversity conservation. Through his work, the author aims to bridge the gap between technological advancements and practical conservation efforts, underscoring the critical role of UAS in addressing current environmental challenges.

Susana Gonzalez is a Remote Sensing Team Leader at Interpine. She has over a decade’s experience in remote sensing predominantly in the forestry sector. She has a breadth of capture and processing experience across an array of reality capture methods, including UAV photogrammetry, airborne LiDAR and terrestrial laser scanning data. She is an expert in point cloud analysis. Her current work focuses on tree volumetric calculations for the forest industry, predominantly utilising LAStools and python.

Benjamin Wild, born in 1996, works as a PhD student and university assistant at the Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation at Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien). He earned his Master’s degree in Geodesy and Geoinformation from TU Wien in 2021. Until 2021, he was part of the Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing research unit, where he developed and published the first global microwave-remote sensing based Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) dataset (VODCA2GPP). Later, he joined the photogrammetry research unit at the same department and contributed to the graffiti-centered academic project INDIGO. Since September 2023, he has been involved in the Citizen Science research project Citizens for Copernicus (C4C), focusing on smartphone-based solutions for gathering high-quality in-situ data through citizen-based crowdsourcing.

Robin Hartley is a Senior Geospatial Scientist at Scion, specialising in leveraging cutting-edge close-range remote sensing technologies such as UAVs and backpack laser scanners for forestry applications. An accomplished early-career researcher, Robin's work has been recognised with accolades including awards from Forest Growers Research in 2019 for Communication and Sector Engagement in 2023 and for Science of International Quality in 2019 as part of a multi-disciplinary phenotyping team. In 2020, he co-led Scion’s Geomatics Team to win the Team Award at the Science New Zealand awards. With nearly a decade of experience in forestry remote sensing and research, Robin's research interests span forest phenotyping, inventory and precision forestry. Notable achievements include his pivotal role in fostering adoption of UAV technology in the New Zealand forestry sector and founding the Tools For Foresters focus group, aimed at democratising UAV technology in the forestry sector.

Prof. Dr hab. Eng. Krzysztof Stereńczak, Professor at the Research Institute of Forestry (IBL), Deputy Director for Research and Science, Head of the Geomatic Department of the Research Institute of Forestry and Leader of the Precision Forestry Team at IDEAS NCBR. He received his professor title in 2024, his habilitated doctorate at the Forestry Research Institute in 2018, his doctorate at the Faculty of Forestry of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) in 2011 and his master’s degrees at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (forestry), the University of Salzburg (UNIGIS) and the Warsaw School of Economics (Executive MBA). Supervisor of 6 completed doctoral theses, and supervisor of 5 postgraduate students. Co-author of 160 scientific papers, participant in over 30 research projects. His scientific interests focus on topics such as monitoring and inventory of forests using remote sensing data, precision forestry and forest management.