Conrad Bielski

Conrad Bielski (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in geography from the Université de Montréal, Quebec, QC, Canada, in 2002. His post-doctoral research included working on Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA, and automatic information extraction algorithms at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy. In 2012, he founded EOXPLORE, Oberhaching, Germany, which provides research and development expertise in the field of Earth observation and image processing for policy support and downstream services. His research focuses include natural capital accounting and environmental and social risk/responsibility. Dr. Bielski is the Co-Chair of the CEOS Digital Elevation Model Inter-comparison eXercise (DEMIX) subgroup 2.