André Twele received the M.Sc. degree in geography and applied geoinformatics from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, in 2003. As part of his M.Sc. thesis research, he spent eight months with the Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, working on remote-sensing-based methods for burned-area assessment and postfire regeneration monitoring. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate with the Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing Department, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany, working in an international research program on rainforest monitoring. In 2007, he joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany, where he is currently coordinating a research project focused on operational methods for flood detection based on synthetic aperture radar remote sensing data. Furthermore, he is involved in method development activities at DLR/DFD's Center for Satellite-Based Crisis Information (ZKI), which is contributing to several national and international activities and projects in the field of disaster mitigation, humanitarian relief, and civil security. Mr. Twele is a member of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society of Nottingham (RSPSoc).