Damir Krstinić received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Split, Split, Croatia, in 2008. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department for Modelling and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split. He is also the Project Leader of the Wildfire Early Detection and Monitoring System developed for Croatian Forests. He has been involved in several research and technological projects related to forest fires. The developed system has been in operation, since 2018. He was installed at more than 50 monitoring locations in Croatia. He has coauthored more than 40 scientific articles. His main research interests include computer vision, image understanding, and machine learning. He is a member of the Program Council of the Center for Wildfire Research, Split.