Ion Nedelcu is Director for Environment and Security projects in the Romanian Space Agency and a member of geo-spatial.org board, the Romanian Chapter of OSGeo. As a member of many international committees and workgroups on geospatial information in general and satellite Earth observation in particular he’s got a very good knowledge of the current evolution of the geospatial world and, as an engineer, he acquired a significant experience in approaching real-world problems and providing geospatial solutions for various technology environments.