Hugo do Nascimento Bendini holds a B.Sc. in Agronomy from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) (2010), a M.Sc. in Computer Science with an emphasis on Image and Signal Processing: Architectures and Algorithms from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in collaboration with Embrapa Instrumentation, and a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil. He completed his sandwich Ph.D. at the Geomatics Laboratory of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and postdoctoral research at the Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO) at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. His research focuses on agricultural remote sensing, digital image processing, satellite image time series analysis, multi-sensor methods, machine learning, land use and land cover classification, geoprocessing, agricultural risk modeling, agrometeorological modeling, and precision agriculture.