Brian is a forest soil scientist and a biogeochemist that focuses on carbon and nutrient cycles as they influence a range of ecosystem services. He is getting old and wants the remote sensing community to empower him to put his shovel down.

Val Thomas is a professor of forest remote sensing, with an interest in the structure and function of forest ecosystems and their change over time. Her work involves the use of multiple sensor types, including lidar, imaging spectroscopy, SAR and multitemporal optical data.

Jianbo Qi is an associate professor from Bejing Normal University, China. He recieved his Ph.D degree from both Beijing Normal University and Unviersy of Toulouse, France. His major focus is 3D radiative transfer modeling of vegetation, parameter retrieval as well as LiDAR data processing. He developed an 3D radiative transfer model named LESS, which has been frequently used in remote sensing studies of land surfaces, as well as a popular LiDAR ground filtering algorithm named CSF, which has been adopted by many LIDAR processing software over the world, e.g., the widely used Cloudcompare.

Martin Krůček is a distinguished researcher at The Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Department of Forest Ecology in Brno, Czech Republic. Martin is focusing on forest ecology, specializing in LiDAR data collection, processing, and the use of remote sensing data for ecological research.

Conservation biologist and photographer, João Pompeu holds a master´s degree in Remote Sensing, and PhD. in Earth System Science. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo on the spatial distribution of Pyrogenic Carbon in the Amazonian soils

Brian is a forest soil scientist and a biogeochemist that focuses on carbon and nutrient cycles as they influence a range of ecosystem services. He is getting old and wants the remote sensing community to empower him to put his shovel down.

Val Thomas is a professor of forest remote sensing, with an interest in the structure and function of forest ecosystems and their change over time. Her work involves the use of multiple sensor types, including lidar, imaging spectroscopy, SAR and multitemporal optical data.