He received his Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing  at the State Key Laboratory of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing Information Engineering of Wuhan University in 2007. Currently, he is a professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University. His research interests include: 1) image quality improvement; 2) remote sensing mapping and applications; 3) data fusion and assimilation; and 4) regional and global environmental change. He has published 2 books, over 130 scientific papers published and accepted domestically and internationally, including 75 SCI papers, and has been granted 6 national invention patents.