Dr. Juan Sandino is a research fellow at the QUT Centre for Robotics (QCR), Australia, and a member of Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative. He holds a BEng (Mechatronics) and a PhD in robotics and autonomous systems from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He has a passion for developing drone-based remote sensing solutions to address some of Australia’s largest environmental and surveillance needs, especially in precision agriculture, biosecurity, Australian and Antarctic environmental monitoring, and automated systems for search and rescue. His primary interests include autonomous small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) decision making, machine learning, and real-time onboard computer vision for UAV remote sensing, with a focus on hyperspectral, multispectral, and high-resolution image processing. He has worked on research projects in biosecurity, environmental monitoring, and time-critical applications, such as land search and rescue to find lost people in collapsed buildings and bushlands.