Ghali Abdullahi Abubakar joined Zhejiang University as a research scholar. G.A.A holds a B.Sc. in Geography from Bayero University, an M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Sam Higginbottom University, India, and is about to receive a Ph.D. in Agricultural Remote Sensing from Zhejiang University. The main research interests include the application of optical and microwave satellite imagery in crop growth modeling, land-use/land-cover change detection, water-yield modeling, wind and solar energy.