Prof. Hongyan Chen is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, China. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Shandong Agricultural University and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Her research focuses on quantitative soil remote sensing, digital soil mapping, land resource management, and intelligent agricultural applications. She has led numerous research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other national and provincial agencies. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in international and national journals. Prof. Chen serves as a member of the Soil Remote Sensing and Information Committee of the Soil Science Society of China and is an expert in natural resources for Shandong Province. She is also the Chief Expert for Soil Type Mapping in the Third National Soil Census of Shandong Province. Her work has received several academic honors, including the Excellent Paper Award of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Shandong Provincial Natural Resources Science and Technology Award.