Oswaldo Vinicio Padilla Almeida is a geographer and environmental engineer from the University of the Armed Forces ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador. He later obtained his doctorate from the University of Alcalá, Spain, in Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing. He also became a specialist in Spatial Data Infrastructure from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, and also a specialist in Reception, Recording and Processing of Satellite Information Center for the Survey of Resources Integrated by Remote Sensing (CLIRSEN), Ecuador. He has held various public and private positions, but he has mainly lectured for the last two decades and held the position of Head of the Geomatics and Remote Sensing Laboratories at the University of the Armed Forces ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador.