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Dr. Rifaat Abdalla has been an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, since 2017. He specializes in geoinformatics, with a focus on WebGIS applications and remote sensing modeling. For the previous five years, he had been at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. He has also worked in the oil industry in Qatar and in the UK, and has held teaching posts at York Uni-

versity and Ryerson University, Canada. Dr. Abdalla has GIS Professional (GISP) and Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) certifications from Ontario, Canada. His research interests include hydrography and marine applications for GIS; modeling and simulation; mobile handheld GIS visualization; and disaster management and emergency response mapping. Dr. Abdalla is a recipient of several prestigious international awards, including the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) PE&RS Best Scientific Paper by ESRI.

Mohammed El-Diasty has been an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, since 2021. He was previously at Mansoura University, Egypt for twelve years and at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia for nine years. He received his MSc degree in civil engineering from Ryerson University, Canada and his Ph.D. in geomatics engineering from

York University, Canada. Dr. El-Diasty's Certified Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) status was awarded in Ontario, Canada. Dr. El-Diasty specializes in geomatics engineering. His research interests include positioning, navigation, mobile mapping, GNSS/INS integration, hydrography and gravimetry. He has received several research grants and has published scholarly scientific manuscripts in geomatics engineering research and practical fields.

Andrey Kostogryzov is the Chief Researcher at the Computer Science and Control Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He obtained his doctorate of engineering in 1994 and was appointed a professor in 1999. He is deputy chairman of the Committee on Business Safety and chairman of the Information Technologies Subcommittee of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Indus-

try. He is also chairman of the Special Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, and a Certified Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education, and Gazprom. Dr. Kostogryzov was named an Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation and received a Laureate of the Russian Government Award in the field of science and engineering in 2015. He is the author of more than 100 probabilistic models and more than 200 scientific works, including 21 books.

Nikolay Makhutov is the Chief Researcher at the A.A. Blagonravov Institute for Machine Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his doctorate in technical sciences in 1974 and was appointed a professor in 1978. He has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987, is a Laureate of the State and has been awarded three Russian Federation government prizes in the field of science and technology. He specializes in

the strength and safety of complex technical systems (nuclear, thermal and hydraulic power, rocket-space and transport complexes). He is the author of more than 600 scientific publications (journal articles, reports) and 40 monographs published in Russia and abroad, and a member of the editorial boards of Russian and foreign scientific books and journals.

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