Xianfeng Song is a professor and doctoral advisor at the College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received a BS and an MS from the China University of Mining and Technology in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Thereafter, he received his PhD from the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Geoinformatics and a charter member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. He is also a senior advisor to the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos. His research interests include environmental Modeling and Resource Management with Remote Sensing and GIS, Open Standard and Open Source Geospatial Engineering, and Geo-sensor networks for environmental data capture.