**About the Editor**

**Jos´e Aranha** is a full professor of Geographical Information Systems and and Remote Sensing (GIS—RS) in agro-forestry applications, in the "Forestry Department" at the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal. He earned his Ph.D. in GIS-RS (1998) from Kingston ´ University, England (thesis title: An Integrated Geographical Information Systems for Vale do Alto Tamega - GISVAT). His research interests are multidisciplinary, and include forest fire hazard indices, ˆ forest biomass calculation, forest inventory, satellite image processing and classification, land use land cover classification and mapping, spatial analysis, map Algebra modeling in agro-forestry, ecosystem services modeling and biological struggle, wildlife survey. He is the author (2021) of one book, five book chapters, seven books published by UTAD, 24 papers in international journals (ISI JCR), six papers in national journals (Latindex, scoupus), 48 papers in International Congress Proceedings Books, 72 papers in National Conference Proceedings Books, and 30 papers in the dissemination and transmission of science. He is the supervisor (2021) of PhD students (six with their thesis concluded and three ongoing), master's students (26 with their disseratation concluded and four ongoing), undergarduate students (40 with their final report concluded (UTAD), and 14 concluded (Erasmus)). His fellowship supervision includes: 1 concluded postdoc, 1 concluded Phd, 2 concluded Master's, 1 ongoing PhD and 1 ongoing Master's. He is a full member of the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) (http://www.citab.utad.pt/).
