Joaquim Patriarca (https://www.cienciavitae.pt/pt/1D1D-8A16-703C), M.Sc. in Geographic Information Technologies (University of Coimbra), is a GeoData Scientist and (Web)GIS applications developer at the Institute for Systems and Computers Engineering at Coimbra (INESC-C). As a researcher, he has been involved as a team member in several research projects, with contributions on the development and implementation of algorithms and spatial analysis procedures for solving spatial problems, spatial data infrastructures and web spatial applications. In addition, he maintains relations with companies providing services and products based on geoinformation, helping them to develop methodologies for automatic processing of geographic information and its representation. Joaquim Patriarca main interests are: land use and land cover mapping; collection, integration, validation and exploitation of volunteered geographic information and spatial data; GIS software testing and performance optimization; spatial modeling.