Stuart Krause is originally from Vancouver Island and has a Bachelor degree in International Forest Ecosystem Management and currently finishing up a Master’s degree in Forest Information Technology at the Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development in Germany. He specializes in a combination of geospatial technologies and forest IT and has carried out field work in forest management. Stu is currently employed as a UAV technician and Remote Sensing/GIS specialist at the Eberswalde University and researching the implementation of UAV-based photogrammetric point clouds and LiDAR in forest monitoring.