Yong Zhang is a professor and holds a position with the National Meteorological Satellite Center, China Meteorological Administration. In July 2006, Dr. Zhang received a PhD in remote sensing and geographic information science from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also holds a MS in geographic information science and remote sensing (July 2003) and a BS in cartology and geographic information system (July 2000), both from Northwest University. His research specialties are thermal infrared remote sensing and radiometric calibration and validation of remote sensors. Dr. Zhang has been with the National Satellite Meteorological Center since 2006, where he conducted research on thermal infrared absolutely radiometric calibration of the FengYun series satellites, including calibration with onboard blackbody data, field measurement data, and intersatellite data. He developed the field measuring system of land surface emissivity and applied this method to measure the Dunhuang Gobi surface and the Xinlinhaote Meadow surface emissivity spectra. He is in charge of the R&D of the FY-4A AGRI LPWs product. Dr. Zhang also has several years of experience on DEM terrain representation accuracy. Dr. Zhang has authored and coauthored more than 70 science papers in peered-reviewed journals and more than 20 proceeding papers. In 2017, Dr. Zhang was selected as science and technology leading talent of CMA through a rigid academia evaluation process.