Cidália C. Fonte has a PhD in Geospatial Engineering by the University of Coimbra and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is a researcher and member of the board of Directors of the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra). Cidália Fonte main research interests are land use and land cover mapping based on satellite imagery; collection, validation and exploitation of volunteered geographic information; geospatial information quality assessment and uncertainty modeling. She is author/co-author of more than 100 research articles with peers review published in International Scientific Journals, International and National Conferences and book chapters, and presented more than 20 seminars by invitation. She integrated the Organizing and/or Scientific Committee of more than 40 scientific international and national conferences and has been involved in international and national institutions, which include the role of co-chair of the Work Group IV/4 (Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), was the Portuguese representative at Commission 2 (Professional Education) of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and of Commission 3 (Spatial Information Management) since 2019. Cidália Fonte participated as a researcher in several research projects some of them as Principal Investigator. She was also involved in the Management Committee of three COST actions funded by The European Union and coordinated the Work Group on Map Validation of the COST Action TD 1202 - Mapping and the Citizen Sensor. Cidália Fonte has been teaching at the University of Coimbra since 1989 in the areas of Geographical/Geospatial Engineering. She coordinated the MSc course of Geographical Engineering, currently called Geospatial Information Engineering, between 2013 and 2019 and since 2021.