Maria Medvedeva is a researcher in the Laboratory of Peatland Forestry of the Institute of Forest Science Russian Academy of Sciences (https://ilan.ras.ru). She graduated from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) in 2006 with a Master's Degree in computer engineering, completed PhD studies in the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and later received the Dr. degree in biology and ecology. As a specialist in remote sensing, she is interested in different applications of space information in relation peatlands, agricultural and forest lands: analysis of climate-induced long-term vegetation dynamics based on meteorological and satellite data, determination of area of drought-affected crops based on satellite data, evaluation of situations with regard to abandoned farmlands reforestation based on satellite data, and remote sensing data use in an assessment of the status of abandoned fire hazardous and rewetting peat extraction lands.