Prof. Nicolas Baghdadi is Senior Scientist at the French Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France. His research activities are in the areas of microwave remote sensing, image processing, and satellite and airborne remote sensing data analysis. His main field of interest is the analysis of remote sensing data (SAR, Lidar, optical) and the retrieval of environmental parameters (e.g. soil moisture content, surface roughness, canopy height, biomass …).