**About the Editors**

**Francesca Cigna** (Ph.D.), Researcher in Earth observation and data analytics at the Italian Space Agency (ASI), with a Ph.D. in Earth sciences, and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in environment and territory engineering. Her key areas of interest and specialty are satellite radar, InSAR, natural and man-made hazards and risks, shallow geological processes, ground instability and land changes, landscape archaeology and cultural heritage. She leads research on Earth observation from space-borne platforms, image processing, and time series analysis, mainly focused on radar through past, current, and future SAR missions such as the COSMO-SkyMed constellation, ESA's ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT, and Copernicus Sentinel-1. She collaborates with the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group Disasters. She serves as an Associate Editor of the *International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation* (ISSN 0303-2434), and *Science of Remote Sensing* (ISSN 2666-0172).

**Deodato Tapete** (Ph.D.), Researcher in Earth observation and data analytics at the Italian Space Agency (ASI). With more than 10 years of research experience in Earth sciences, natural hazards and remote sensing, he is specialized in synthetic aperture radar imaging and interferometry for deformation monitoring, hazard assessment, and archaeological prospection, as well as in assessment of anthropogenic impacts on the environment, natural resources and cultural heritage. He is involved in CEOS Working Group Disasters and serves as an Associate Editor of 'Environmental Remote Sensing' of *Remote Sensing* (ISSN 2072-4292) journal, and as Editor in Chief of the 'Natural Hazards' Section of *Geosciences* (ISSN 2076-3263) journal.

**Zhong Lu** (Ph.D.), Shuler-Foscue Professor at Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (www.smu.edu/dedman/lu). His research interests include technique developments of InSAR processing and their applications to the study of volcano, landslide, and human-induced geohazards. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters focused on InSAR techniques and applications, and a book on "InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes: Monitoring a Volcanic Arc from Space" with co-author Dan Dzurisin. He is a member of NASA-ISRO satellite radar (NISAR) Science Team (2012–present), Editor-in-Chief of the journal *GeoHazards*, Senior Associate Editor of the journal *Remote Sensing*, Associate Editor of journal *Frontier in Earth Sciences*, and a member of the editorial boards of *International Journal of Image and Data Fusion*, and journal *Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk*.

**Susanna K. Ebmeier** (Ph.D.), NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK), with PhD in Earth sciences, and BSc in geophysics. Her areas of expertise include volcanology, satellite remote sensing, InSAR, volcano deformation, volcanic emissions, and source separation. She investigates different aspects of volcanic activity using satellite remote sensing. She is interested in the physical processes that control the character of volcanic activity, including magma storage, edifice growth and collapse, and volcanic interactions. An important aspect of her research using satellite imagery is exploring how it can be made useful for volcano monitoring and assessing volcanic hazards. She also has an interest in the ways in which the emission of gases affects the Earth's environment. She co-leads the Volcano Demonstrator within the CEOS Working Group Disasters.
