Hong Chi received a B.S. degree in information engineering in Wuhan University, China, in 2003, a M.S. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from Fuzhou University, China, in 2008, and a Ph.D. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2011. He is an associate professor with the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China. His research interests include land cover mapping, vegetation remote sensing, ecological parameter inversion, and simulation from remotely sensed imagery.