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## **About the Special Issue Editors**

**Brian Johnson** received a M.S. in Geography from Florida Atlantic University, USA (2007), and a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Florida Atlantic University, USA (2012). He has been working at IGES since 2013, and his research involves developing and applying geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial modeling methods/techniques to support environmental management and land use planning efforts. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal *Remote Sensing*.

**Lei Ma** received a M.S. in Geographic Information Systems from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 2016. From 2014 to 2015, he was a guest Ph.D. student with University of Salzburg, Austria. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Research Associate with Nanjing University. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Texas Tech University from 2018 to 2019, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Since 2019, he has been an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with Technical University of Munich, and an Associate Professor with Nanjing University. His research interests include object-based image analysis, land cover and land use change, high-resolution image analysis, and time series analysis. Dr. Lei Ma received The Jack Dangermond Award–Best Paper 2017 in 2019. He was selected to receive the Jiangsu province-level outstanding diploma thesis award in 2017. He is a Guest Editor for *Remote Sensing*.
