Keunyong Kim received an M.S. degree in ocean ecology, and a Ph.D. degree in marine ecology of remote sensing from Chonnam National University, Korea, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Since 2017, he has been a senior research scientist with the Korea Ocean Satellite Center, Korea Institute of Ocean and Science Technology, Busan, Korea. His research interests include floating macroalgal bloom, salt marsh mapping, UAV image analysis, and multi- and hyperspectral image analysis.