Claudio Parente is a Full Professor of Geomatics and Director of the "Geomatics, Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory" at the University of Naples "Parthenope", Department of Science and Technology. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Naples "Federico II", a Master’s degree in "Sciences and Engineering of the Sea", and a PhD in "Geodetic and Topographic Sciences" from the Naval University of Naples. His research interests span various fields of Geomatics, including remote sensing, GIS, cartography, digital terrain modeling, and hydrographic and land surveying. He served as Vice-Director of the Department of Science and Technology (2022–2025) and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Program in Science and Technologies of Navigation (2019–2025). He has both participated in and coordinated numerous research projects focusing on Geomatics, GIS, and remote sensing. Additionally, he has organized special sessions at international conferences and served as a guest editor for special issues in indexed international journals. Currently, he is the Coordinator of the PhD program in Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development at the Parthenope University UNESCO Chair. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 national and international publications, with a strong presence in major scientific databases such as Scopus (91 articles, h-index = 21) and Web of Science (49 articles, h-index = 15).