About the Reviewers

Paolo Corti is an environmental engineer based in Rome, Italy. He has more than 15 years of experience in the GIS field; after working with proprietary solutions for some years, he proudly switched to open source technologies and Python almost a decade ago.

He has been working as a software architect, developer, and analyst for organizations such as the United Nations World Food Programme, the European Commission Joint Research Centre, and the Italian Government.

Currently, he is working within the GeoNode project, for which he is the core developer, in the context of emergency preparedness and response.

He is an OSGeo charter member and a member of the pyCSW and GeoNode Project Steering committees. He is the coauthor of PostGIS Cookbook by Packt Publishing, and he writes a popular blog on open source geospatial technologies at http://www.paolocorti.net.

Abdelghaffar Khorchani has a license degree in geographic information systems, a fundamental license in natural science applied in biology and geology, and a master's degree in geomatics and planning. He is also a computer engineer. Currently, he is pursuing his master's degree in planning and regional development (University of Laval—Canada) and his PhD in marine sciences (University of Milano-Biccoca – Italy).

He has prepared courses in Japan on fishery resource management approaches for young leaders and in Spain in the field use of geographic information systems for scheduling and management. He has also prepared other training modules in Tunisia on urban administration.

He has 8 years of experience in the geomatics field and has worked on several projects in the agriculture sector, environment, transport, and mapping.

Currently, he is in the Ministry of Agriculture in Tunisia and is responsible for the mapping service for project VMS (short for Vessel Monitoring System).

He is also a trainer in the mapping field of Geographic Information System, GPS, and CAD. He is particularly interested in the development of decision support tools.

Gergely Padányi-Gulyás is a GIS and web developer and remote sensing analyst with over 7 years of experience. He specializes in designing and developing web mapping applications and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He is a dedicated user/developer of open source software, and he is also an active member of the OSGeo local chapter. He is familiar both with client- and server-side programming.

For more than 4 years, he worked for archaeologists as a GIS engineer and remote sensing analyst where he contributed to laying the foundation of the Hungarian Archaeological predictive modelling. After that, he became a Java web developer for a private company. Since then, he has been working at a state nonprofit corporation as a GIS and web developer where he uses the skills he learned from his previous jobs: combining GIS with development. During the past few years, he has been involved with plugin development in different programming languages such as Java for GeoServer and Python for QGIS.

He has a website (www.gpadanyig.com).