**About the Editors**

**Orhan Altan** ALTAN is Em. Prof. at the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He is member of several international societies. He served as member of the Executive Board of the ICSU (International Council for Science) during 2011–2018 and has served as Guest Professor in Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich Technical Universities (Germany), ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), and the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University (China). He was ISPRS Congress Director in 2004 in Istanbul and has worked as Secretary General during 2004–2008, was President in 2008–2012, and served as 1st Vice-President of ISPRS during 2012–2016. He is an Honorary Member of ISPRS, Honorary Member of Science Academy in Turkey, and Honorary Fellow of The Indian Remote Sensing Society.

**Tullio Joseph Tanzi** Tanzi is Professor in Institut Mines-Telecom - Telecom ParisTech.Tel´ ecom ´ ParisTech - LabSoC, c/o EURECOM. His research interests lie in the areas of network communication, risk management, network architecture, safety, network, disaster management, natural disasters, IT systems, and radio science. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Commission F Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing (planetary atmospheres, surfaces, and subsurfaces) of URSI and chair of the ISPRS Joint Working Group ICWG III/IVa: Disaster Assessment, Monitoring and Management, which is a joint initiative of URSI and ISPRS.

**Madhu Chandra** is currently the Chairholder and Head of Microwave Engineering and Electromagnetic Theory, Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany. His research interests ¨ include 1. Advanced multi-parameter radars employing diversity of polarization and waveforms in combination with smart and configurable antennas; 2. EM wave propagation and scattering for radar applications; 3. Remote sensing with advanced weather radars and SAR systems; 4. Physics-based signal processing of radar signals for obtaining target information; 5. EM wave propagation for wireless links; 6. Engineering education. His current projects include radar remote sensing, training of radar engineers, and development of radar signal processing algorithms for Doppler and polarization diversity radars.

**Filiz Sunar** is Lecturer in the Geomatics Department of the Civil Engineering Faculty at Istanbul Technical University. The main positions held include i) Co-director of ITU-CSCRS Satellite Ground Receiving Station, June 2003–2009; ii) ISPRS TC VII (Thematic Processing, Modelling and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data) president for 2012–2016; iii) Evaluator and Project Monitoring Committee member of the GOKTURK-2 Project (first national Earth observation satellite) supported ¨ by TUBITAK; iv) Evaluator of numerous EU FP7/H2020-EO projects; v) Guest lecturer at Graz University, Padova University, and Politechnico di Milano; vi) Associate Editor of PE&RS Journal (since November 2017).

**Lena Halounov ´a** Since graduation from the CTU in Prague (Faculty of Civil Engineering), Prof. Dr. Lena Halounova has remained within its walls during her Ph.D. at the Department of ´ Hydrotechnics before moving to the Department of Geomatics. In her research, Lena pays special attention to issues of using optical and SAR remote sensing data and GIS applications for solving problems of water engineering, erosion, reclamations, landslides, land subsidence, detection of vegetation in urban areas, and change detection in urban areas. Lena was elected the Director of the 2016 ISPRS Congress, where she was elected ISPRS Secretary General for the 2016–2020 period.
