Zhang Xiaoli was born in January 1967. She is a professor and doctoral supervisor of cartography and geographic information system in the College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University. She is Director of the Environmental Remote Sensing Branch of the Chinese Geographical Society, supervisor of the Beijing Agricultural Informatization Society, member of the National Standardization Technical Committee for Desertification Control, vice chairman of the National Innovation Alliance for Forest and Grass Remote Sensing Applications, reviewer of the National Science and Technology Expert Database of the Ministry of Science and Technology, reviewer of the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education, and reviewer of the Life Science Department and the Ministry of Geology of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.