Biographical note

Hamid Reza Pourghasemi is an Associate Professor of Watershed Management Engineering at the College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran. He holds a B.Sc, an M.Sc, and PhD in Watershed Management Engineering from the University of Gorgan, Iran, and Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, respectively. His main research interests are GIS-based spatial modeling using machine learning/data mining techniques in different fields, such as landslide, flood, gully erosion, forest fire, land subsidence, species distribution modeling, and groundwater/hydrology. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in high-quality journals. Also, he published two books with Springer.

Pulakesh Das received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institution of Technology Kharagpur, India. Currently he is teaching as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Remote Sensing & GIS, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He completed his B.Sc in Physics and M.Sc in Remote Sensing & GIS at the same university. His research areas include land use and forest cover modeling, hydrological modeling, study of forest cover dynamics and climate change, and digital image processing. He has published more than 15 research articles in respected, peer-reviewed journals.

Gouri Sankar Bhunia received his Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on environmental control of infectious disease using geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modeling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modeling, data mining and information retrieval using geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 60 articles in various leading journals