**About the Editors**

#### **Jun Li**

Jun Li, Professor, Ph.D., Vice Dean of Earth Science and Surveying and Mapping Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing. His research interests include remote sensing of ecology and environment; geospatial analysis; ecology and environment in mining areas; machine learning; and spatiotemporal data mining. He has hosted more than 20 projects commissioned by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Programmed, the National Energy Group, etc. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers.

#### **Xinyi Shen**

Xinyi Shen, Assistant Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include interactions of humans, disasters, and the built environment under climate change; flood-inundation modeling and observatory using hydrological modeling and remote sensing; AI applications in natural hazards and climate change; AI applications in desert biodiversity under climate change; and remote sensing, photogrammetry and GIS. He has led and participated in more than ten research projects with NASA, NOAA, and international cooperation projects.

#### **Qiusheng Wu**

Qiusheng Wu, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include Geographic Information Science (GIS); remote sensing; and environmental modeling. More specifically, He is interested in applying geospatial big data, machine learning, and cloud computing (e.g., Google Earth Engine) to study environmental change, especially surface water and wetland inundation dynamics. He has published a total of 72 papers. He has reviewed 170+ times for 40+ journals since 2015.

#### **Chengye Zhang**

Chengye Zhang, Associate Professor in Earth Science and Surveying and Mapping Engineering at the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing. His research interests include quantitative remote sensing; multi-spectral and hyper-spectral remote sensing; remote sensing of vegetation; machine learning; and radiative transfer models. He has presided over and participated in more than ten scientific research projects. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers.
