Sawahiko Shimada received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. He joined Tokyo University of Agriculture in 2001 and was a visiting scholar at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, from 2009 to 2010. Since 2014, he has been a Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture, where he is a member of the Laboratory of GeoData Science and contributes to graduate education in agricultural engineering. His research focuses on environmental monitoring using satellite remote sensing and GIS, environmental dynamics analysis, carbon accumulation in tropical peat swamp forests, and the recovery of peat swamp forests. His broader interests include integrating multiscale Earth-observation data for sustainable land, water, and ecosystem management.