Prof. Abel Ramoelo is a Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies and an Associate Professor within the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, at the University of Pretoria. Abel completed his first and second degrees in environmental sciences, with geography, ecology, and resource management as major subjects, at the University of Venda in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He then completed his MSc in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Management and Modelling across four European Universities: the University of Southampton (UK), Lund University (Sweden), Warsaw University (Poland), and the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente (The Netherlands). As a remote sensing specialist, he has a PhD in remote sensing from the University of Twente (The Netherlands).