Costas A. Varotsos is Professor of Atmospheric Physics and former Dean of the School of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His main research interests include remote sensing, climate dynamics, atmospheric physics & chemistry, environmental change, and non-linear processes. He has published more than 300 research papers in peer reviewed journals, 18 monographs and has contributed chapters to a further six books. He has coordinated or participated in more than 50 large international research competitive projects, funded by National, European and International Organizations (e.g., European Commission, ESA). He has been Editor-in-Chief, Editor and Associate Editor of several international journals with peer-review system. Since January 2020, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Remote Sensing Letters (T&F). He has received the gold A.S. Popov medal from the Russian A.S. Popov Society, the RADI Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the MOST/ESA Award. He has been awarded with the title of Academician and Honorary Professor from several Academies, Universities, and Institutes.Vladimir F. Krapivin was educated at the Moscow State University as mathematician in 1959. He received his PhD in radiophysics from the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics (KIRE) of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 1966. The Doctoral Dissertation in geophysics had defended him at the Moscow Institute of Oceanology of RAS in 1973. He became Full Professor of Radiophysics in 1987. The title “Honoured Worker of Science” was given to him in 1999 by Russian Government. He was appointed Grand Professor in 2012 at the Nguyen Tat Thanh University (Vietnam). Vladimir Krapivin is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has published 37 books and 570 papers in the field of ecoinformatics, remote-sensing and global modeling. At present time he is chief scientists of KIRE and he has specialized ininvestigating global environmental change by the application of modeling technology and remote sensing tools.Ferdenant A. Mkrtchyan was graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute as engineer – mathematician in 1969. 1969-1972 - postgraduate study of Institute of Oceanology RAS (Moscow). He received his PhD in signal processing in 1973. He became Full Professor of Radiophysics in 1996. He was appointed Grand Professor in 2012 at the Nguyen Tat Thanh University (Vietnam). Ηε is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He is the Chairman of the section "Cybernetics and Ecology Issues" of the Central Council of the Russian Sciences Engineering A.S. Popov Society of Radio, Electronics and Communications. He has published 5 books and 400 papers in the field of remote environmental monitoring. Currently, he is Head of the Laboratory of Information Modeling Technologies in Radiophysical Research of the Fryazino Branch of the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS and he has specialized in investigating complex information systems, remote monitoring systems, data processing of remote and contact experimental researches.Professor Dr. Yong Xue is an expert in quantitative remote sensing and Big Earth data, an Academician of the International Academy for Europe and Asia, a Corresponding Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics, and a Chartered Physicist. He received his BSc degree in Space Physics from the Department of Geophysics, Peking University, in 1986, his MSc degree from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation, Peking University, in 1989, and his PhD from the Department of Applied Physics, University of Dundee, in 1995. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Environment and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology, the deputy chair of “Chinese National Committee of the International Society for Digital Earth-Digital Energy Commission”, the deputy director of Observation and Research Station of Jiangsu Jiawang Resource Exhausted Mining Area Land Restoration and Ecological Succession, Ministry of Education, China. He has published more than 310 peer-reviewed papers (more than 260 corresponding and first-author papers). He has published two academic monographs (co-author) and more than 320 invited conference presentations. He is currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and the editor of the World Scientific Publishing Remote Sensing book series (2001–).
