Dr. Niall G. Burnside is a senior lecturer in Biogeography and Geoinformatics at the Scottish Association For Marine Science, UK. He has a background in spatial ecology and the application of GIS and remote sensing and a keen interest in addressing landscape-scale ecological issues. He specializes in the application of geoinformatics and remote sensing for marine, landscape, and habitat conservation and management. He has 4 years of practical conservation management experience and over 25 years of research and consultancy experience in a wide range of ecological and biogeographical studies. He has extensive habitat and field survey knowledge, in particular, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), dGPS surveys, LiDAR, and multibeam data. He holds full civil aviation authority permission for aerial work (fixed-wing and multi-rotor). Much of his recent work focuses on the use of RGB, multi-spectral, hyperspectral remote sensing data and structure-from-motion developing the scie