Raffaele CasaFull Professor at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) of Agronomy (BSc level course) and Experimental Methods in Agriculture (MSc level course). He received his PhD at the University of Dundee (Scotland, UK) for a research on the application ofmultiangular hyperspectral remote sensing to agricultural crops stress monitoring. He carried out several research periods at international institutions (University of Wageningen, Netherlands; University of Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, Scotland; INRA Avignon France; Evora, Portugal; Beijing, China) in the framework of research projects, or as a visiting professor. He has been awarded twice Marie Curie IEF fellowships from the European Commission, respectively for a 1 year stay in Scotland (1999-2000) and for a 1 year stay at INRA Avignon (2008-2009). He has been member of the Mission Advisory Board of the Sentinel 2 Mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and of the Earth Observation Scientific Advisory Committee of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). He has been a member of the Group of Experts on Precision Agriculture at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture (2015-2016) and co-authored the policy document on the National Guidelines for Precision Agriculture in Italy. He was a member of the Directive Committee of the Italian Society of Agronomy (SIA) 2016-2019. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Journal of Agronomy and of the Italian Journal of Agrometeorology. He is the representative for Italy in the European Program Committee of The European Conferences on Precision Agriculture. Read More Read Less