GIOVANNI PERONA received the degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 1962 (summa cum laude). In 1964 he moved to Ithaca (NY), where he received a Master of Science in 1965 and a PhD in 1968 (Cornell University). He was then at the University of California and back at the Politecnico di Torino, where he is now professore ordinario (full professor) of Remote Sensing. The scientific activity is documented by more than one hundred publications on international journals and proceedings of international conferences in the field of applied electromagnetism and remote sensing. In 1991 he was an active promoter and first chairman of the European Association of Environmental Management Education (in response to an initiative of the European Parliament). He has been organizing formation activities in different managerial fields in cooperation with the European Union and the International Labor Organization (United Nations). He has been involved in several European research projects, in particular he has been the project scientific leader and coordinator of VOLTAIRE, a project co-funded by the European Commission within the 5th Framework Programmer.