Instructors


Instructors

  
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Dr. Tao Cheng (程涛)


Title: Professor

E-mail: tcheng@njau.edu.cn

Tel: 025-84396565

Research fields: crop growth monitoring, remote sensing

Web: http://www.netcia.org.cn/pages/taocheng.html

Demo video:Lecture 8_Hyperspectral remote sensing (1)


Tao Cheng  received the Ph.D. degree in earth & atmospheric sciences from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2010. From January 2011 to December 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA, United States. Since December 2013, he has been a Professor with the National Engineering & Technology Center for Information Agriculture (NETCIA) and College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the author of more than 50 papers on international and national journals and one book chapter, and holds two patents. He is the principal investigator of several national level projects funded by the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His main research interests include crop mapping and monitoring, crop phenotyping, imaging and non-imaging spectroscopy of vegetation, quantitative remote sensing, machine learning, and image analysis. Dr. Cheng has served as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue in Remote Sensing and has been serving on the Editorial Board of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information since 2015. He was elected to IEEE Senior Member in 2016 and is currently Chair of IEEE GRSS Nanjing Chapter. He was a recipient of the Youth Science & Technology Award from the Crop Science Society of China in 2019.


Dr. Xia Yao (姚霞)


Title: Professor

E-mail: yaoxia@njau.edu.cn

Tel: 025-84396565

Research fields: crop growth monitoring, remote sensing

Web: http://www.netcia.org.cn/pages/xiaoyao.html      

Demo video:Lecture 6_In situ reflectance measurements(1)


Xia Yao received the Ph.D. degree in crop informatics in 2009 from Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. Since December 2015, she has been a Professor with the National Engineering & Technology Center for Information Agriculture (NETCIA) and College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University. From December 2016 to December 2017, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States. She is the author and co-author of over 60 papers, 3 monographs, and 12 patents. She supervised 12 M.S and Ph.D. students, won 4 National and Province level awards, and investigated over 10 projects as a PI. She won “the Young and Middle-aged Academic Leader in Blue and Indigo Engineering” in Jiangsu province in 2016. She has been serving on the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing since 2018. And she was elected to IEEE Senior Member in 2018. She was appointed as the Dean of Smart Agriculture Department since December 2019. Her research activities are built on the sophistical multi-scale platforms for acquiring timely remotely sensed data over crop fields. Her research interests focus on crop hyperspectral remote sensing, crop growth/biotic/abiotic stress/senescence monitoring based on SIF, active remote sensing (LiDAR), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and high throughput crop phenotyping.



Dr. Qiang Cao (曹强)


Title: Associate Professor 

E-mail: qiangcao@njau.edu.cn

Tel: 025-84396804

Research fields: precision agriculture, remote sensing

Web: http://www.netcia.org.cn/pages/qiangcao.html

Demo video: Lecture 7_Earth observation missions (1)


Qiang Cao received the Ph.D. degree in plant nutrition from China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, in 2014. Since June 2014, he has been an Associate Professor with the National Engineering & Technology Center for Information Agriculture (NETCIA) and College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University. From August to December in 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States. He is the author of more than 40 papers on international and national journals, and holds one patents. He is the principal investigator of several national level projects funded by the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His main research interests include nutrient management and precision agriculture. Dr. Cao has served as a reviewer for several international journals. He was a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the International Society of Precision Agriculture in 2014. He also won the “Zhongshan Young Scholar” in Nanjing Agricultural University in 2019.



Dr. Qi Chen (陈奇)


Title: Professor 

E-mail: qichen@hawaii.edu

Tel: +1 808 956 3524

Research fields: remote sensing, ecological/biogeochemical 

                            modeling, statistics, and wildlife ecology

Web: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~qichen/

 Demo video: Lecture 9_LIDAR remote sensing of vegetation (1)


Qi Chen  received the Ph.D. degree in environmental science, policy & management from University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States in 2007. He has been a faculty member with Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawai’i, United States since 2007 and is currently a Professor. His main research interests include Lidar, multispectral, hyperspectral, high spatial resolution remote sensing, machine learning, statistical analysis, GIS, environmental science. Dr. Chen is serving on the Editorial Board of ISPRS International Journal of Remote Sensing and an Academic Editor on PLOS ONE. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is also the author of the textbook Lidar Remote Sensing and Applications (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group LLC) published in 2018.


National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture     E-mail: netcia@njau.edu.cn
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