Clement Bourgoin is working at the Joint Research Centre, the scientific branch of the European Commission. He works in the forests and bioeconomy unit promoting sustainable management of forests and providing scientific and technological contributions to policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation and for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. He has a background in geography and remote sensing and specifically focuses on the mapping and monitoring of global forests and related drivers.

Monique graduated with a Bachelor of Science from The University of Queensland in 2022 majoring in Applied Mathematics and Geographical Science. Throughout her undergraduate years, Monique demonstrated a keen interest in remote sensing and data analysis. During this time, Monique worked within Department of Environment, Science and Innovation's (DESI) Statewide Land and Tree's Study (SLATS) program monitoring woody vegetation clearing and regrowth across Queensland. Since graduating, Monique has continued working in applied research within the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program between The University of Queensland and DESI, with a focus on GEDI LiDAR and it's applications within the SLATS program.

David Coomes is Director of the Conservation Research Institute and Director of the Centre for Earth Observation at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include applications of lidar technologies to monitor carbon storage. He is co-supervisor of PhD student Amelia Holcomb, whose work is presented today, alongside Professor Srinivasan Keshav from the Department of Computer Science and Technology

Dr. Yasumasa Hirata is senior researcher of Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan. His main research field is forest remote sensing, particularly lidar remote sensing and forest carbon accounting and REDD+. His main target is tropical forests and he has managed projects of forest monitoring in Southeast Asia and South America. He was lead author of 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and he was responsible for writing on wide-area carbon mapping and terrestrial lidar using remote sensing in it. He has contributed as a member of the Scientific Committee in past Silivilaser and ForestSAT. In particular, he chaired Silvlilaser 2006 in Japan.

Dr Duncanson is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of Geographical Sciences. Her research focuses on using satellite lidar and data fusion for forest aboveground biomass mapping, and various science and management applications of biomass products.