Professor A. Bannari received a B.Sc. in Surveying Engineering from the Agronomic Institute Hassan-II (Rabat, Morocco) in 1986, an M.Sc. in Geomatic Sciences from Laval University (Quebec, Canada) in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from Sherbrooke University (Sherbrooke, Canada) in 1996. After retiring as a professor of remote sensing and GIS from the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada), he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Geoinformatics at the Arabian Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Prof. Bannari has also been a researcher at SPAR Aerospace Limited (Montreal, Quebec), and a visiting scientist at JPL-NASA (Pasadena, USA) and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (Ottawa, Canada). Over the course of his distinguished academic career, he has supervised more than 66 graduate students and authored two books alongside over 275 articles, communications, and book chapters. He currently manages "Space Pix-Map International Inc.," a private firm providing international scientific consultations in remote sensing and Geomatics based in Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada.