Diego Pacheco-Prado is a researcher and academic at the University of Azuay (Ecuador), and a PhD candidate in Geomatics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). He holds a Master’s degree in Geomatics with a specialization in Territorial Planning (Universidad del Azuay, 2013) and a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the same institution (2008). His research focuses on remote sensing, UAVs, spatial databases, machine learning, territorial management, and tree species identification using remote sensing.