Bang Nguyen Tran, is a lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) in Hanoi since 2012. He was a research fellow at the Centre for Agricultural Research and Ecological Studies (CARES) at VNUA between 2003 and 2011. He has over 10 years’ experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing applications for natural resources and environmental management in northern Vietnam. He specialises in advanced GIS and Remote sensing applications for land use/land cover analyses, climate change impact assessments, carbon stock monitoring, biodiversity mapping and animal health control. He holds an MSc in Applied Sciences of Geographic Information Systems from the University of Melbourne, Australia. ©