Eyal Ben-Dor received the M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Soil Science from the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986 and 1992 respectively. Currently he is serving as the chair of the Geography Department of Tel Aviv University and the head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) at this department. His researches are focused on monitoring the earth from space and air as well as on developing innovative tools to monitor soils and minerals from all domains. He was a pioneer scientists who open up, in late nineteens of the 20 century, the field of soil proximal sensing using spectral information in the reflective spectral domain. He has more than 27 years experience in remote sensing of the Earth with a special emphasis on the hyperspectral remote sensing (HSR), soil spectroscopy (passive and active) and environmental issues. He developed many quantitative applications for monitoring of soils from reflectance information and is the owner of 4 patents.