Alim Samat received his B.S. degree in Geographic Information Systems from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 2009; his M.E. degree in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from the China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, in 2012; and his Ph.D. degree in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 2015. He was a visiting Ph.D. student with the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2014. He is currently a researcher with the State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China. His main research interests include optical and PolSAR image processing and applications, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He serves as a reviewer for several international remote-sensing journals, including Remote Sensing Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, etc.