**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Yuei-An Liou**, distinguished Professor and Academician, Dr., received a M.S.Eng. in electrical engineering (EE), M.S. in atmospheric and space sciences, and a double Ph.D. degree in EE and atmospheric, oceanic, and space sciences from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1992, 1994, and 1996, respectively. Dr. Liou is a Distinguished Professor and Head of Hydrology Remote Sensing Laboratory, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taiwan; Founder and Honorary President, Taiwan Group on Earth Observations (2016–); Honorary President, Vietnamese Experts Association in Taiwan (2017–). Dr. Liou has received many awards: Foreign Member, Prokhorov Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2008; Outstanding Alumni Awards, University of Michigan Alumni Association in Taiwan & National Sun Yat-sen University in 2008; Member, International Academy of Astronautics in 2014; Fellow, The Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2015; Crystal Achievement Award in 2019/2011, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam; and Outstanding Research Award in 2019, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

**Yuriy Kuleshov**, Professor and Academician, Dr., is a Science Lead of the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Working for the Bureau since 1995, he led the Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones International Initiative and a number of climate programs of the International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative, among others. For the past two decades, he has been working for numerous expert and task teams of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Currently, he is a Chairman of the Steering Group for the Space-Based Weather and Climate Extreme Monitoring (SWCEM), implementing this WMO flagship initiative in East Asia and Pacific countries. Working in the Department of Satellite Remote Sensing of the Earth Environment, Academy of Sciences, USSR in 1981–1994, he was developing novel methods and microwave instruments for satellite remote sensing, including the world first operational space-based radar for the Cosmos-1500 satellite. For lifetime achievements in research on satellite remote sensing of the earth environment, he was elected as an Academician (Foreign Member) of the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Russian Federation.

**Chung-Ru Ho** received his Ph.D. in applied ocean science from the University of Delaware, USA in 1994. He is now a Professor with the Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan. He was a Deputy Director General of National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Taiwan. Ho is currently serving as a Committee Member of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). His research interests include eddy–current interaction, typhoon–ocean interaction, global change and climate variability, and ocean dynamics.

**Jean-Pierre Barriot** received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Montpellier in 1987, and a post-doc in space physics from the University of Toulouse in 1997. Since 2006, he has been a distinguished professor of geophysics at the University of French Polynesia (UPF) and head of the Geodesy Observatory of Tahiti, a joint Geodetic Observatory of CNES, NASA, and UPF. He is also an invited professor at the University of Wuhan. His research areas range from geophysics of the earth and planets, earth and planetary atmospheres, and orbitography.

**Chyi-Tyi Lee**, Supervisor Dr., is a senior research scientist and professional engineering geologist, engaged in seismic and landslide hazard analysis in recent years, and was a Principal Geologist of Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc. before 1991. He has been with the National Central University since 1991. His research interests include geomorphology, geomechanics, geostatistics, earthquake geology, and paleostress inversion.
