Boya Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University (FIU), in Miami, Florida. He worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2014 to 2017, as a research assistant in processing Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. He received his Master of Science degree in Geomatics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Capital Normal University, in Beijing, China, in 2011. Boya’s research interests are applying SAR, InSAR, optical, and LiDAR data for (1) wetlands hydrology and vegetation, and (2) mapping forest canopy heights with deep learning techniques.