**About the Editor**

**Michael J. Hill** is Emeritus Professor of Earth System Science in the Department of Earth System Science & Policy at the University of North Dakota (UND), Grand Forks, USA. He has a background in grassland agronomy and ecology but has worked with spatial information and remote sensing of grassland and savanna systems for the past 30 years. He has published widely on agronomy, ecology, biogeography and production of grasslands, radar, multispectral, and hyperspectral remote sensing of grasslands, and vegetation dynamics of Australian and global rangeland and savanna systems. He retired from UND in 2016. He now resides in Australia and is a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water in Canberra, Australia. His current interests involve assisting CSIRO scientists with global remote sensing of vegetation fractional cover, and the development of global vegetation cover products and the GEOGLAM RAPP project to enhance productivity of global rangelands and pastures.
