Anna Allard is researcher in the Division of Landscape Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She has worked for many years in national monitoring of biodiversity on the landscape scale, in several ongoing monitoring schemes including seashores and mountains as well as national digital vegetation mapping. Her expertise is in landscape ecology and analysis of the landscape and vegetation by remote sensing.

E. Carina H. Keskitalo is professor of political science in the Department of Geography, Umeå University, and a guest researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She has published widely on forest and natural resource policy and use applying qualitative methods.

Alan Brown has worked for one of the UK nature conservation agencies as the senior remote sensing manager, previously as the lead on terrestrial monitoring. His professional background is in upland ecology, vegetation survey and monitoring, computer programming, and multivariate and statistical analysis.