CHEIN-I CHANG, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He established the Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory and conducts research in designing and developing signal processing algorithms for hyperspectral imaging, medical imaging, and documentation analysis. A Fellow of IEEE and SPIE, Dr. Chang has published over 125 refereed journal articles, including more than forty papers in the IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. In addition to authoring Hyperspectral Imaging: Techniques for Spectral Detection and Classification, as well as editing two books, Hyperspectral Data Exploitation: Theory and Applications and Recent Advances in Hyperspectral Signal and Imaging Processing and co-editing one book, High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing, he holds five patents and has several pending.