Dr Yudi Setiawan is an associate professor at Faculty of Forestry and Environment, IPB University and director of the Center for Environmental Research, International Research Institute for Environment and Climate Change, IPB University. His main research is in the area of remote sensing for forestry, land use science, image processing, and ecological modelling on a regional scale. He has been working as a remote sensing specialist on land change detection at UNDP-REDD Indonesia. He has developed a novel method for the change detection, and it should be applicable in the development of a near-real time deforestation detection system for Indonesia. He had been a postdoctoral fellow at Nihon University, Japan, in the collaborative project entitled Spatio-temporal variation of carbon budget in Arctic pedosphere concerned with the prediction of global climate change, funded by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (ERTDF), Ministry of Environment, Japan.