Dr. Pu is currently a Professor with School of Geosciences, University of South Florida. His research experience and interests are in remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics with direct applications to natural hazard monitoring, land use/cover change detection, biophysical and biochemical parameters extraction, and coastal and terrestrial ecosystems modeling. He has published more than 130 journal papers, book chapters, segments and monograph (Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Practices) in English and more than 25 journal papers and books in Chinese. He has been a reviewer of USA NASA, Canada NSERC and Belgian Science Policy research proposals and more than 20 journals’ papers. He also is currently an associate editor of Geosciences and an editorial board member of Remote Sensing of MDPI. His current research interests are (1) mapping and characterization of seagrass habitats, and (2) urban environmental studies using multi-sensor's data.