Giacomo Fontanelli received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in forest and environmental science from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in methods and technologies for environmental monitoring from the University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, in 2014. He joined the Institute of Applied Physics of the National Research Council (IFAC-CNR), Florence, in 2010. He moved to the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA-CNR), Milan, Italy, in 2013. From 2016 to 2018, he was an Agro-Environmental Scientist with Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, U.K., before coming back to IFAC-CNR, in 2018, where he is currently a Researcher. He worked on many national and international projects, funded by ESA, ASI, EC, and Innovate U.K. His research interests include the identification of indices from satellite remotely sensed data to describe forest status and crop growth and productivity, and he is also focused on providing useful information to farmers using satellite data, to help them in agricultural practices and decision making.