Dr. Linlin Lu is currently an Associate Professor at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR, CAS). Dr Lu obtained a PhD in remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, in 2009. In the same year, she joined CAS as an assistant professor. Her research interests include image information detection, image classification, and time series analysis applied to urban environment, urban resilience and sustainability. She is the author of more than 140 journal articles and conference proceeding papers. Dr. Lu was appointed as a member of the Sino-EU Panel on Land and Soil (SEPLS) (2018-2022). She is a member of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative and Human Planet Initiative. She has served as a Scientific Committee member for the IEEE/GRSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) since 2016. She presently co-chairs the Urban Environment Working Group in the Digital Belt and Road program.Dr. Aqil Tariq is a Research Associate in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University, USA. His research interests are 3D geoinformation, urban analytics, spatial analysis to examine land use/land cover, geospatial data science, urban planning, crop identification using SAR and optical satellite imagery, agriculture monitoring, forest fire, forest monitoring, forest cover dynamics, spatial statistics, multi-criteria algorithms, ecosystem sustainability, hazards risk reduction, statistical analysis and modeling (Google Earth Engine, HEC-RAS, FlowR, RAMMS, GeoClaw, COSI-Corr, SfM) using Python, R, and MATLAB. He is a member of different international science communities, i.e., Individual Membership of ISPRS, International Water Resources Association, International Association of Geodesy, and the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI). He has attended more than 30 training workshops from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) ARSET program.Dr. Qingting Li received the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS. His research interests include thermal infrared remote sensing, hyperspectral remote sensing, time-series analysis, and monitoring of natural resources and eco-environment with Earth observation data.
