5. Credits

Marco GIANINETTO is Professor of Remote Sensing and Copernicus Uptake at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and an Associate at the National Research Council of Italy. He is the head of the Laboratory of Remote Sensing , member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Remote Sensing , mentor for the Copernicus Accelerator programme of the European Commission, Co-Editor-in-Chief for European Journal of Remote Sensing , Associate Editor for International Journal of Remote Sensing , and Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Remote Sensing . Marco Gianinetto has been a co-author of the study Space Market Uptake in Europe for the European Parliament.

Francesco Niccolò POLINELLI (MSc in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering) is a research assistant at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and PhD candidate in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. His research interests are Remote Sensing technologies for Earth Observation, Geosciences and Machine Learning. The main field of application are the monitoring and mapping of vegetation, soil erosion analysis and the effects of climate change on land cover evolution.