Dmitry Schepaschenko has 30+ years research experience in the field of forest ecology, forest management and remote sensing. He is a coordinator of IUFRO working party "Boreal and Alpine Forest Ecosystems". His recent projects have included global and regional land cover, forest, and biomass mapping; full carbon account of Northern Eurasia; remote sensing applications; modeling of structure, productivity and growth of forests; adaptation and mitigation strategies under global change.

Jarosław Socha is a Full Professor of Forest Sciences, at the University of Agriculture in Krakow. He has managed and participated in many international projects (EU FP5, EU FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, Forest Value) and several national projects. His current research interests are in three main areas: 1. Causes and consequences of long-term changes in forest productivity. 2. Forest disturbance and adaptation to climate change in forest management with particular emphasis on the use of remote sensing data. 3. Modelling of forest growth and site productivity.

Selina Schwarz is a PhD student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on exploring drought induced forest mortality using high resolution remote sensing products and deep learning.

Daniele Marinelli is a researcher at the Forest Ecology Unit of Fondazione Edmund Mach. The research activity is devoted to the development of automatic methods for remote sensing data analysis with a focus on multispectral images and LiDAR point clouds, considering both airborne and spaceborne sensors. Currently, he is focusing on the analysis of optical time-series for forest monitoring and disturbances detection. He received the Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies (cum laude) from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2019. He is recipient of the prizes for the 2015 Best Italian master Thesis and 2020 Best Italian Ph.D. Thesis in the area of remote sensing awarded by the the Italy Chapter of the IEEE GRSS. He got the Second Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2018 IEEE IGARSS held in Valencia (Spain). He was awarded the IEEE GRSS Letters Prize Paper Award in 2023.

David is an Associate Professor in GIS and remote sensing at Flinders University, an Adjunct Professor in the University of South Australia, and a faculty member of the International Space University. David has had a long career in Earth Observation and geographical information science in both government and academia; in the latter he has taught, and continues to teach, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervise PhD students and undertake research, which is currently focused on the analysis of high spatial resolution satellite multi-spectral and multi-polarimetric SAR images for environmental applications, particularly in forests, vegetation and coastal assessment.

Andrew Holdaway has a background in remote sensing and GIS, with experience in monitoring natural features using airborne, satellite and LiDAR data. He is interested in applying emerging geospatial technologies and techniques and is proficient with processing and developing routines that automate the extraction of information to create analysis-ready datasets. This extends to the analysis of satellite time-series to track plantation change such as harvesting, canopy condition decline and building forest descriptions from satellite data. Andrew holds an MSc (first-class honours) from the University of Auckland.