Daniele Borio received an M.S. degree in communications engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, an M.S. degree in electronics engineering from ENSERG/INPG de Grenoble, France, in 2004, and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino in April 2008. From January 2008 to September 2010, he was a senior research associate in the PLAN group of the University of Calgary, Canada. In October 2010, he joined the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). He is a scientific technical officer in the JRC ``Food Security'' unit, where he supports the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) through the European satellite programs, Galileo and Copernicus.