Dr. Richard Gloaguen is the Head of the Exploration Department at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. Richard received the Ph.D. degree “Doctor Communitatis Europae” in marine geosciences from the University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, in collaboration with the Royal Holloway University of London, U.K., and Göttingen University, Germany, in 2000. He was a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Royal Holloway University of London from 2000 to 2003. He led the Remote Sensing Group at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg e.V (TUBAF), Germany, from 2003 to 2013. Since 2013, he has been heading the division “Exploration Technology” at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Freiberg e. V. (HIF). He is currently involved in imaging sensor development, data science, and autonomous mapping. His research interests focus on multisource and multiscale remote sensing integration using computer vision and machine learning.