Jianxi Huang received a B.Sc. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan, China, in 1999; an M.Sc. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2002; and a Ph.D. degree in agricultural remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2006. Currently, he is a Professor with the College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China. He has authored more than 60 papers in international journals. His research interests include data assimilation applications in agriculture, crop yield estimation and forecasting, and agricultural drought monitoring and assessment.