Kun Jia is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and also the Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Cartography and GIS from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. His main research interests include the estimation of vegetation parameters, land cover classification, and agriculture monitoring using remote sensing data.