Prof. Mahesh Pal is currently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. He joined NIT Kurukshetra in 1994 and proceeded for doctoral studies under the Commonwealth scholarship scheme in 1999. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2002. He has published extensively on land-cover classification, feature selection, and application of artificial intelligence techniques in various civil engineering applications. He was also awarded Commonwealth and Fulbright fellowship in 2008 and 2012 respectively for further studies on hyperspectral remote sensing in the UK and US respectively. He is the editor of International Journal of Remote Sensing and in the editorial board of the Remote Sensing Letters, an international journal and reviewer of more than 50 international journals.