Dr Amy Parker is the Director of the Centre for Earth Observation at CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency. She is an up- and down-stream Earth observation specialist with over ten years of experience spanning satellite operations, Earth observation data management and Earth observation applications research and development. Amy is Vice President of Earth Observation Australia Inc and sits on the Advisory Board of the Australian Space Data Analysis Facility. Her technical expertise is in the use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and she has won numerous awards for her research in this field.