Dr. Stefano Pignatti is the Director of Research at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy. He earned, a Laurea Degree in Geology from the University of Rome “la Sapienza” in 1988. He has been a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy since 1995, and a Member of the SBG-TIR NASA-ASI mission MAG, since 2023. He is working on hyperspectral remote sensing both from airborne (VSWIR and TIR) and satellite platforms. He worked on data calibration issues as well as on the exploitation of hyperspectral remote sensing in environmental applications. He was involved in the development of prototyping algorithms for retrieving biochemical and biophysical properties of vegetation suited for the ASI PRISMA hyperspectral mission.