Jonson Lumban-Gaol is a Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Professor at the Department of Marine Science and Technology, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, IPB University, Indonesia, with a strong background in remote sensing and GIS. Moreover, Jonson Lumban-Gaol has 30 years of research experience and 15 years of experience collaborating on joint projects at the international level, such as Conservation International (CI), Asia Pacific Network for Global Research (APN), Ministry of the Environment Japan, University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and British Colombia University (BCU) Canada.