Dr Michael Hsing-Chung Chang is a senior lecturer and has been the program director of Spatial Information Sciences at Macquarie University since 2011. Michael’s research interests include vegetation, land cover and land use monitoring, and change detection and 3D modelling using remotely sensed data with the aid of geographic information systems (GIS). He has also contributed to many multi-disciplinary projects on biodiversity conservation, wetland monitoring, natural disaster mitigations (e.g., bushfires and seismic deformation), public transport planning, etc., using spatial analyses and modelling.