**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Yeqiao Wang** is a professor at the Department of Natural Resources Science, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island. He earned his B.Sc. from the Northeast Normal University in 1982 and his M.Sc. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1987. He earned the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in natural resources managemen<sup>t</sup> and engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he held the position of assistant professor in Department of Geography and Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been on the faculty of the University of Rhode Island since 1999. Among his awards and recognitions, Dr. Wang was a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000 by former U.S. President William J. Clinton. Dr. Wang's specialties and research interests are in terrestrial remote sensing and its applications in natural resources analysis and mapping. Dr. Wang has published over 170 refereed articles. He was the editor of *Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments and Remote Sensing of Protected Lands*, published by CRC Press in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the *Encyclopedia of Natural Resources*, a three-volume set of *Land*, *Air*, and *Water*, published by CRC Press in 2014. He was the editor of *The Handbook of Natural Resources*, Second Edition, a six-volume set, including *Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity* (Vol. 1), *Landscape and Land Capacity* (Vol. 2), *Wetlands and Habitats* (Vol. 3), *Fresh Water and Watersheds* (Vol. 4), *Coastal and Marine Environments* (Vol. 5), and *Atmosphere and Climate* (Vol. 6), published by CRC Press in 2020.

**Zhong Lu** received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska in 1996. He was a physical scientist with United States Geological Survey during 1997–2013, and he is now a professor and endowed Shuler-Foscue chair at the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (www.smu.edu/dedman/lu). His research interests include technique developments of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) processing and their applications to the study of volcano, landslide, and human-induced geohazards. He has produced more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters focused on InSAR techniques and applications, along with a book titled *InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes: Monitoring a Volcanic Arc from Space* (Springer, 2014). He is a member of NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) Science Team (2012 to present); Senior Associate Editor of the journal *Remote Sensing* and the journal *Frontier in Earth Sciences*; and a member of editorial boards of *International Journal of Image and Data Fusion* and *Geomatics*, *Natural Hazards and Risk*.

**Yongwei Sheng** is a scientist in the field of Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies and their applications in large-area environmental monitoring and assessment, with over 100 journal publications. He graduated from Earth Science Department, Zhejiang University with B.Sc. and M.E. in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in 2000 from University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor at Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with primary research interests in lake dynamics at regional and global scales. He has been a member of NASA SWOT Mission Science Team and USGS/NASA Landsat Science Team.

**Yuyu Zhou** is an associate professor at the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University. He received his B.Sc. degree in geography and M.Sc. degree in remote sensing from Beijing Normal University and his Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences from University of Rhode Island. Before moving to Iowa State University, He worked as a geography scientist in the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research interests lie in the applications of geospatial technologies, including remote sensing, GIS, geovisualization, spatial analytic tools, and integrated assessment modeling, to understanding the problems of regional and global environmental change (e.g., urbanization, urban heat islands, ecosystem phenology, energy supply and demand, and greenhouse gas emissions) and their potential solutions. His research focus has always been in quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of environmental change and developing modeling mechanisms to bridge the driving forces (both natural and socioeconomic factors) and consequences of environmental change so that the impacts of human activities on environment can be effectively measured, modeled, and evaluated.
