Xianfeng Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 2005. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Peking University, Beijing, China. His research interests are in the remote sensing of ecology, remote sensing in natural disasters, geoinformatics, and AI remote sensing. He is also a referee for over ten international academic journals. Currently, he is the associate editor of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-Information.