From left to right: Juerg Lichtenegger, ESA Earth observation applications engineer; Tej Bahadur Thapa, a biologist and lecturer at the Tribhuvan University of Nepal in Kathmandu; Maurizio Fea, head of the promotion and training section of ESA’s directorate of Earth observation programmes; Malkanthi Tantirimudalige, civil engineer and lecturer at the Open University of Sri Lanka.