Nicolas Longépé is currently a Research Engineer in the Radar Application Division of Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), Plouzané, France. He has worked with CLS since 2010. From 2007 to 2010, he was with the Earth Observation Research Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo, Japan, for 11 months as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, and then as an Invited Researcher. His research interests include space-borne remote sensing applied to maritime security (oil spill, sea ice, iceberg, and ship detection/tracking) and to environmental and natural resource management.