Milat Hassan Abdullah is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Forestry at the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Duhok, located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He earned his Master's degree in Forestry from the College of Bioengineering and Sciences at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University, Turkey. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Forestry from the University of Duhok. In addition to his doctoral studies, he serves as a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the College of Basic Education, University of Zakho, and concurrently teaches in the Department of Petroleum Geology at Zakho Technical College, Duhok Polytechnic University.

Yaseen Taha Mustafa is a specialist in applied remote sensing and geospatial analytics, with a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands (2012). He currently serves as the Head of the Applied Remote Sensing and GIS Center at the University of Zakho, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Dr. Mustafa’s research focuses on integrating remote sensing, GIS, machine learning, spatial statistics, and Bayesian networks to address complex environmental and land-use challenges. He has led numerous interdisciplinary projects, authored peer-reviewed publications, and contributed extensively to capacity building in geospatial sciences across the region. His academic profile and contributions can be found at www.yaseenmustafa.net.