Prof. Dr. Xiaolin Meng is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, a professor, and a theme leader of Positioning and Navigation Technologies at the Nottingham Geospatial Institute within the University of Nottingham. He is the founding director of the Sino-UK Geospatial Engineering Centre, a dedicated international center for technology exchanges. He has been a special professor at the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping and Wuhan University in China since 2004 and 2006, respectively. He holds a Ph.D. in Highway, Urban Road, and Airport Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai, where he was appointed guest professor in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Space Geodesy from the University of Nottingham. His research focuses include integrated location and sensing sensor systems for intelligent transport systems and services, location-based services, structural health monitoring of long bridges, advanced geodetic data processing, precise GNSS and Earth Observation for wide engineering and environmental applications, etc. He has been chair for special study groups of key international associations and sits on several editorial boards for international journals.