Dr. Amr Abd-Elrahman is a Geomatics Professor at the University of Florida’s Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. He received his BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Digital Mapping from Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt. He acquired his PhD from the University of Florida in Civil Engineering-Geomatics Concentration with a minor in Computer Engineering. He worked as a Visiting Research Engineer at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Central Florida and as an Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University (Egypt). Dr. Abd-Elrahman’s experience and research utilize remote sensing imagery and spatial analysis to support natural resource management and precision agriculture applications. He supervised many projects involving multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR datasets. His most recent interest is in utilizing small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) imagery for wetland classification and invasive plant mapping through machine and deep learning techniques, as well as using lidar for characterizing coastal vegetation.