Short biography Ivan Radev Ivanov was born in 1984 in Sliven. He completed his secondary education at the Dobri Chintulov Natural and Mathematical High School in Sliven. He received his professional education in geography at the Faculty of Geology and Geography of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski”. He graduated from the bachelor’s degree programme in Geography. In 2009, he successfully completed the master’s programme in the Department of Cartography and GIS. Since then, he has been working as an expert in remote sensing data processing, database building and mapmaking in a private centre for satellite imagery application. He has worked on numerous projects related to land cover assessment and change detection, forest monitoring and management, post-crisis damage assessment and mapping. In 2015, he defended his PhD thesis on "Monitoring and Management of Forest Vegetation through Remote Sensing and GIS". Since 2018, he has been a lecturer in the Department of Geoinformation Technologies. The main areas of competence are: • Digital image processing experience with optical satellite data (Sentinel-2, Landsat 1-8, Spot-5, RapidEye, Ikonos, Quickbird, WorldView-2, GeoEye, Formosat-2, Kompsat, etc.) • Full set of image preprocessing procedures, image enhancement, image transformation and classification with software products Erdas Imagine, ENVI, PCI Geomatics and ArcGIS Pro. • Preparation of analyses, reports and ready products such as spatial databases and mapping products