Parviz Tarikhi specializes in radar remote sensing since 1994 and heads the Microwave Remote Sensing Research Core at the Mahdasht Satellite Receiving Station in Karaj, Iran. He holds a PhD in physics focusing on microwave remote sensing. He has been involved with the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS) since 2000, including as Second Vice-Chair and Rapporteur in 2004-06 of the committee bureau. Since 2001 he has co-chaired Action Team number 1 of UNISPACE-III with the mission ‘to develop a comprehensive worldwide environmental monitoring strategy’. From 2004-07 he led the Office for Specialized International Cooperation of the Iranian Space Agency. He has made in the mean time years of research and study on the developments and status of space science and technology with a particular focus on Iran. For more information please see: https://parviztarikhi.wordpress.com.