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Sawaid Abbas Sawaid Abbas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo‐informatics in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include integrative analysis of remote sensing, landscape ecology, urban ecology, urban microclimate simulation, and monitoring of vegetation response to extreme climate events.

Shlomo (Solly) Angel Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Professor of City Planning and the Director of the Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University, USA. He is the author of Planet of Cities (2012) and Housing Policy Matters (2000), the leading author of the Atlas of Urban Expansion (2016 Edition), and a coauthor of A Pattern Language (1977). Since 2012, he has led teams assisting intermediate cities in Colombia and Ethiopia in preparing for their rapid expansion. Dr. Angel holds an architecture degree and a doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Yifang Ban Yifang Ban is a Professor and Director of Geoinformatics Division at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Before joining KTH, Dr. Ban was a Tenured Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She received a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research has focused on multitemporal multisensor remote sensing, EO big data analytics, and their applications in urban mapping, environmental change monitoring, and environmental impact analysis, among others. She has published extensively on these topics. She is a colead of the GEO initiative “Global Urban Observation and Information,” and a Co‐Chair for the Commission on Sensor‐Driven Mapping, International Cartographic Association.

Thomas Blaschke Thomas Blaschke is a Professor of Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research interest centers on integrating methods and domain knowledge into spatial analysis and GIS‐based spatial decision support systems. Technically, Dr. Blaschke contributes to bridging object‐based image analysis and Geographic Information Science (GIScience).

Alejandro Blei Alejandro Blei is a Research Scholar in the Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University, USA. His research interests include global urban settlement mapping and the spatial structure of U.S. metropolitan areas. He was a research coordinator and coauthor of the Atlas of Urban Expansion.

Rostyslav Bun Rostyslav Bun is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine, and a Professor of Computer Science at the WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. His research interest centers on modeling greenhouse gas emissions and geographic information systems. He is the author of 7 books and 300 papers. He was a Guest Editor of special issues of Climatic Change and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, which were dedicated to the uncertainty in greenhouse gas inventory estimates.

Austin Bush Austin Bush is a field researcher for the Emergency Management and Homeland Security (EMHS) program at the Florida State University. He is also a doctoral student in the Department of Geography at FSU. His research interests focus on geographic information science, remote sensing, unmanned aircraft systems, and the integration of these technologies into emergency management in the United States.

Frank Canters Frank Canters is a Professor of remote sensing and geo‐information science in the Department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. He is also a Guest Professor at Ghent University and at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven. Dr. Canters’ research focuses on remote sensing of urban areas, urban imaging spectroscopy, monitoring and modeling of urban dynamics, and on the role of urban form/function and urban green spaces in ecosystem service provision. Developing methods to extract information from remotely sensed data that is useful for local and regional decision making is an important concern in much of the work done by his team.

Guofeng Cao Guofeng Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research is characterized by an interdisciplinary perspective on geographic information science driven by advances of spatial Big Data (e.g. social media and remote sensing), machine learning and artificial intelligence, and computational sciences. His research has been supported by different funding agencies. He has published over 60 peer‐reviewed papers and chapters. He received a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Srija Chakraborty Srija Chakraborty is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center and Universities Space Research Association. She received her PhD in Computer Engineering at the Arizona State University with a focus on multitemporal analysis, and anomaly and novelty detection for monitoring and interpreting remote sensing observations. Her research interests center on ground‐based and onboard machine learning and statistical signal processing applications in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Tzu‐Hsin Karen Chen Tzu‐Hsin Karen Chen is a PhD candidate majoring in Environmental Science at the Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research promotes a synergy of machine learning, remote sensing, and human–environment relations. Currently, she is investigating how urban form influences mental health through rural–urban migration. Her research has been published in Remote Sensing of Environment and Applied Geography. She served as a reviewer for several international journals.

Wendy Y. Chen Wendy Y. Chen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong (UHK). She also serves as the Director of the International Centre for China Development Studies, UHK. She is the Editor‐in‐Chief for Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, the top international journal in the field of urban forestry. Dr. Chen combines expertise in environmental science and economics to address the quantification of ecosystem services and economic valuation of nonmarket environmental goods as well as interactions between economic development and the environment. She has led several national and international research projects and published over 50 papers in peer‐refereed journals.

Yanhua Chen Yanhua Chen is a doctoral student at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include remote sensing, ecosystem services, and machine learning.

Alexandra A. Chudnovsky Alexandra Chudnovsky is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Tel‐Aviv University, Israel. Her research focuses on the understanding of ecological effects of air pollutants through integrating state‐of‐the‐art remote sensing techniques with GIS, environmental engineering, and advanced statistics. Using high‐resolution satellite measurements of aerosols, she evaluated the contribution of local and regional pollution sources to the urban air quality, which include anthropogenic activities in and outside cities and natural sources such as desert dusts. She authored or coauthored over 50 peer‐reviewed publications.

Sam Cooper Sam Cooper is a doctoral researcher at the Earth Observation Lab of the Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his BS in Ecology and Environmental Sciences and MS in Geography from South Dakota State University, USA. His research interests focus on the use of remote sensing for mapping and monitoring natural and semi‐natural ecosystems, especially investigating the capability of imaging spectroscopy for such endeavors.

Jeroen Degerickx Jeroen Degerickx completed his PhD track on urban remote sensing at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Belgium in 2019, during which he focused on using hyperspectral and LiDAR data to characterize the urban environment. Currently, he is employed as R&D professional at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Mol, Belgium, where he is building remote sensing applications in the domains of agricultural monitoring and smart farming. His personal mission is to harness the power of remote sensing for a more sustainable planet.

Sha Feng Sha Feng is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. Her research centers on carbon cycle science, particularly in the regional numerical modeling, an area in which she has played a leading role. She serves as a proposal review panelist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Energy, as well as a manuscript reviewer for more than 16 journals.

Dorothy Furberg Dorothy Furberg recently obtained her doctoral degree in Geoinformatics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She obtained a master’s degree in international relations and worked for an environmental NGO in Geneva, Switzerland before taking up environmental engineering studies in Stockholm. She is currently a geodata project manager at the city environment unit of Stockholm City’s traffic office. Her main research interest is in the use of geographic information in support of sustainable urban development and environmental conservation in growing metropolitan regions, particularly Stockholm, Sweden.

Song Gao Song Gao is an Assistant Professor in GIScience at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, USA. He holds a PhD degree in Geography at the University of California‐Santa Barbara, a M.S. degree in Cartography and GIS at Peking University, and a B.S. degree in GIS at the School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. His main research interests include Place‐Based GIS, GeoAI, Geospatial Big Data, and Social Sensing. He is the author of over 40 book chapters, journal, and conference papers. He is currently a board member of CPGIS and AAG GISS Specialty Group and an Associate Editor for Annals of GIS.

Taïs Grippa Taïs Grippa is a Geographer and Geomatician at the Institute for Environmental Management and Land‐use Planning (IGEAT), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He received his PhD in 2019. His research activities mainly focus on using state‐of‐the‐art and open‐source GIS, remote sensing, and machine learning solutions for mapping land cover and land use from very high‐resolution satellite imagery.

Uta Heiden Uta Heiden received her PhD in Urban Spectroscopy from the Technical University of Berlin and the German Research Centre for Geosciences in 2003. Currently, she is with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). She is interested in airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy with a focus on material‐based reflectance properties of urban surfaces. Recently, Dr. Heiden has widened her interests toward a better process understanding of soils in degrading ecosystems. She is the Science Coordinator for the spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission DESIS onboard the ISS and member of the Science Advisory Group of the German spaceborne imaging spectrometer mission EnMAP.

Virginia L. Kalb Virginia L. Kalb is a Data Analyst and Software Developer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She supports ground processing of satellite data in the areas of gridding and mapping, as well as product development. She is the lead developer of the VIIRS top‐of‐atmosphere day/night band product, VNP46A1, in the Black Marble suite. Her research interests include development of applications of the day/night band to aurora observations and the use of Geographical Information Systems as the visualization and analysis platform.

Chaogui Kang Chaogui Kang is an Associate Professor of Geographic Information Science at Wuhan University, China. He is currently a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress. He is leading Urban CoLab at Wuhan University with the mission to develop data‐driven, human‐centric, and edge‐cutting methodologies for tackling urban problems from a geospatial perspective. His primary research interest lies in the intersections of travel behavior, built environment, and social inequality with the assistance of pervasive urban sensing techniques.

Yuhao Kang Yuhao Kang is a PhD student in GIScience at the GeoDS Lab,the University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He holds a M.S. degree in Cartography and GIS at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, and a B.S. degree in GIS from Wuhan University. His main research interests include Place‐Based GIS, GeoAI, Social Sensing, Cartography, and Geo‐visualization. He is the author of over 20 book chapters, journals, and conference papers.

Monika Kuffer Monika Kuffer received her PhD from the University of Twente in 2017 and her MSc in Human Geographer from the TU Munich (Germany) in 2001 and another MSc in Geographic Information Science from the University of London in 2010. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, Netherlands. Her main research foci are urban remote sensing, especially in monitoring deprived urban areas as well as analyzing the urban form and dynamics. Presently, she is working on three related research projects, SLUMAP, ACCOUNT, and IdeaMaps.

Bin Jiang Bin Jiang is a Professor of Computational Geography, Division of GIScience, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, the University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests center on geospatial analysis of urban structure and dynamics, e.g. topological analysis, scaling hierarchy applied to buildings, streets, and cities, or geospatial big data in general. Inspired by Christopher Alexander’s work, he developed a mathematical model of beauty – beautimeter, which helps address not only why a structure is beautiful, but also how much beauty the structure has.

Marianne Jilge Marianne Jilge is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. She holds the B.Eng. degree in cartography and geomedia technology from the University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany, the M.Sc. degree in applied geoinformatics from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, and the PhD degree in geomatics from the Ruhr‐University Bochum, Germany. Her main research interests are related to urban mapping with remote sensing techniques, especially the mapping of urban materials, and spectral libraries from imaging spectroscopy data.

Raffaele Lafortezza Raffaele Lafortezza is an Associate Professor at the University of Bari, Italy and in the University of Hong Kong. His main research effort is to provide natural resource managers and decision‐makers with geospatial knowledge, tools, and indicators that would enable them to become better stewards of healthy and sustainable ecosystems. His research involves the development and use of remote sensing technology to map, monitor, and assess urban forest resources and ecosystem services.

Feilin Lai Feilin Lai is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the Florida State University. Her research interests include remote sensing, GIS, machine learning, and spatial analysis with applications in urban ecology and land change science.

Thomas Lauvaux Thomas Lauvaux is a Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) research laureate at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) in France and an affiliate at the Pennsylvania State University in the USA. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences and is specialized in data assimilation and mesoscale modeling applied to carbon cycle science. His current research focuses on developing atmospheric assimilation systems at both regional and urban scales to measure fossil fuel emissions from large metropolitan areas and sources and sinks over continents.

Arthur Lehner Arthur Lehner received his PhD in Applied Geoinformatics from the University of Salzburg, Austria in 2019. His research interest focuses on the use of remote sensing for urban planning applications. Specifically, he contributed to remote sensing guided analysis of urban space.

Xiaojiang Li Xiaojiang Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, USA. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab. His research focuses on developing and applying geospatial analyses and data‐driven approaches in the domain of urban studies. He proposed to use Google Street View for urban environmental studies and developed the Treepedia project to map street greenery for cities around the world. He is currently using human trace data to study human activities and investigate the connection between urban environments and human activities.

Xun Li Xun Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow and a part‐time Lecturer at the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong. His research interest focuses on environmental economics, urban ecology, geographic information systems, and remote sensing. He served as a GIS specialist and provided consultancy services to different sectors and departments in Hong Kong, such as Lands Department, Construction Industry Council, among others.

Hao‐Yu Liao Hao‐Yu Liao is a Research Assistant in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Her research interests are spatial data analysis and environmental remote sensing, particularly SAR image analysis. Her master thesis focuses on establishing a machine‐learning model to capture the spatial heterogeneity of radar’s double‐bounce effect in SAR imagery. This work was published in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation.

Xiuwen Liu Xiuwen Liu is a Professor of Computer Science at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. His main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and applications to remote sensing and other areas. He received the Young Investigator Award from the International Neural Network Society in 2004, the best paper award from the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications in 2007, and the Developing Scholarship Award from the Florida State University in 2008.

Yu Liu Yu Liu is Boya Professor of GIScience at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Peking University, China. His research interests focus on analytical methods for various types of big geo‐data. He has been the PI or a Co‐PI for about 10 grants from NSFC (National Science Foundation of China) and MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology) of China. He published more than 150 papers in peer‐reviewed journals.

Ying Lu Ying Lu is a PhD student of Geography at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, USA. Her research interest centers on large‐scale remote sensing and mangrove forests. She has authored two papers about mangrove forests and Google Earth Engine.

Ding Ma Ding Ma is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Research Institute for Smart Cities, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. His current interests focus on topological and scaling analysis as well as complexity modeling of urban structure, particularly in the context of big data.

Shamil Maksyutov Shamil Maksyutov is a Specialist at the Satellite Observation Center, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. His research interest is with the development of inverse models using satellite observations of greenhouse gases for emission estimation at global, regional, and country scale. He published more than 190 research papers and served as lead author for 2019 Refinement to 2006 IPCC Guidelines on national emission inventories.

Adam J. Mathews Adam J. Mathews is an Associate Professor of Geography at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. His research incorporates remote sensing technologies and creates and/or adapts a variety of geospatial methodologies to study environmental processes. Specifically, he focuses on urban areas and vegetation using three‐dimensional data from light detection and ranging (lidar) and drone‐based Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry. A broadly trained geographer, Dr. Mathews is the author/coauthor of over 20 peer‐reviewed articles on topics ranging from remote sensing and GIS applications to cultural geography.

Jacob (Jake) McKee Jacob (Jake) McKee is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA. He currently leads the LandScan Global project. Updated annually, LandScan Global is a gridded data set modeling the spatial distribution of population for the world. While at ORNL, he has supported numerous research initiatives through the analysis and processing of high‐resolution satellite imagery at scale in a High‐Performance Computing (HPC) environment, including preprocessing, segmentation, classification, and feature extraction.

Massimo Menenti Massimo Menenti is a Professor of Optical and Laser Remote Sensing in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the Delft University of Technology (TU‐Delft), the Netherlands. His research focuses on surface parameter retrievals from remote sensing, remote sensing‐based evapotranspiration (ET) estimation, time series analysis of remote sensing products, and the application of remote sensing technology in hydrology and climate models.

David Merrick David Merrick is the Director of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program and the Center for Disaster Risk Policy at the Florida State University. His research interests focus on unmanned systems in emergency management, remote sensing in disasters, information systems, social media in disasters, logistics, and disaster planning.

Son V. Nghiem Son V. Nghiem is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA. His research encompasses active and passive remote sensing, electromagnetic scattering and emission modeling, and Earth science and applications. He has published over 120 peer‐reviewed articles and over 450 conference articles. He holds a patent on wind measurements for offshore wind energy development. He received three NASA medals for exceptional achievements in science and technology. He is an AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. His research has been reported worldwide by major news networks.

Tomohiro Oda Tomohiro Oda is an Earth Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He studied man‐made carbon emissions using computer modeling and remote sensing techniques. He is a pioneer of the satellite‐based high‐spatial‐resolution CO₂ emission mapping and is the Principal Developer of the ODIAC global CO₂ emission model. He currently serves as a Principal Investigator for multiple projects funded by NASA Earth Science programs and as a science team member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park.

Akpona Okujeni Akpona Okujeni is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Earth Observation Lab of the Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He received his Diplom (MSc equivalent) and PhD degrees in Geography from Humboldt‐Universitat zu Berlin. His scientific research focuses on bridging environmental applications and remote sensing techniques to map and monitor land systems under global change, especially in the field of imaging spectroscopy and multispectral time series analysis.

Xiaoying Ouyang Xiaoying Ouyang received her PhD in Cartography and Geographical Information Systems from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2010. She is currently a Research Assistant Scientist with the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include retrievals and validations of complex land surface parameters and time series analysis of land surface parameters.

Ian Paynter Ian Paynter is an Associate Research Scientist at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Earth from Space Institute (EfSI), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Earth Sciences. He graduated from the University of Wales Aberystwyth with a degree in Zoology, completed a master’s degree in Marine Science and Technology and a PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has worked with various remote sensing technologies and applications, focusing on lidar and hyperspectral observations for ecology.

Claudio Persello Claudio Persello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Observation Science (EOS), Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the University of Twente, Netherlands. His main research interests are on the analysis of remotely sensed data, machine learning, image classification, and pattern recognition. He is currently working on the analysis of images acquired by Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring urban areas.

Karin Pfeffer Karin Pfeffer obtained her PhD in Physical Geography from the Utrecht University (Netherlands) in 2003. She then worked at the University of Amsterdam (Social Sciences) before her appointment as a Full Professor at ITC, University of Twente (Netherlands) in 2017. She uses geographic information technologies for investigating critical urban issues such as deprived settlements or environmental vulnerabilities. She also investigates how research can engage with the development of new urban planning practices and address issues of urban sustainability. She has participated in NWO and EU‐funded research programs on spatial information infrastructures, spatial knowledge management, and deprived settlement dynamics.

Frederik Priem Frederik Priem received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography, with a specialization in GIS and Remote Sensing, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He worked as a researcher on the BELSPO funded UrbanEARS and GENLIB projects at the same institute. His research interests include urban remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, laser altimetry, and spatiotemporal modeling of urban systems.

Miguel O. Román Miguel O. Román is the Founding Director of The Earth from Space Institute (EfSI) – a program of Universities Space Research Association (USRA) dedicated to Earth Observation for societal benefits. Román currently serves as a Discipline Leader to NASA's Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP satellite program. He is also a member of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability – a high‐level forum of senior officials and scientific advisers that share outlooks, information, and analyses related to harnessing science and technology for sustainability.

Mats Sandberg Mats Sandberg is a Professor of Indoor Environment and Fluid Mechanics in the field of installations, Department of Building, Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Gävle, Sweden. His research interests include the relation between ventilation of dense cities and the shape and form of cities, the layout of the street network, building area density, and variation in building heights.

Giovanni Sanesi Giovanni Sanesi is a Professor at the University of Bari, Italy. His research interests include urban forestry, landscape ecology, climate change impacts, and ecosystem services. He authored more than 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and conference proceeding papers.

Atharva Sharma Atharva Sharma is a Senior Research Engineer at Amobee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel) in the USA. His main research interests are machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, advertising technology, and applications to remote sensing and other areas.

Ranjay M. Shrestha Ranjay M. Shrestha is a Senior Scientific Programmer/Analyst for Science Systems and Applications, Inc. working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a science team member of NASA Black Marble nighttime light product suites that enable, through tracking variations in energy use over time, research on urbanization and human development, light pollution, illegal fishing, fires, and disaster impacts and recovery.

Richard Sliuzas Richard Sliuzas received his PhD in Geographical Sciences from the Utrecht University. He is a Professor of Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction at the ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands. His major research areas include urban risk reduction strategies and urban informality. He used a variety of methods to support his research, including aerial and satellite‐based data acquisition systems, spatiotemporal analysis and spatial modeling, community participation, and mapping. He has extensively worked in sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia, South‐East Asia, and Latin America.

Ben Somers Ben Somers is an Associate Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven Division of Forest, Nature & Landscape. With his team, he focuses on studying the role, vitality, and stability of plant species and their communities in (sub)urban and semi‐natural environments. Recent developments in remote sensing technology are exploited to quantify vegetation structure and functioning at various temporal and spatial scales. He and his team have a proven track record in the development of image processing algorithms and the application of optical remote sensing including imaging spectroscopy, LiDAR processing, and satellite image time series analysis.

Eleanor C. Stokes Eleanor C. Stokes is a Remote Sensing and Urban Land Scientist who is interested in the planetary impacts of urbanization. During her doctorate, she was awarded the NASA Jenkins fellowship and began using the earliest data from the Suomi‐NPP VIIRS day/night visible band to understand how the changing structure of urban areas shapes sustainability. She now leads Black Marble research activities at the Earth from Space Institute at USRA and was recently profiled in ESRI’s Women and GIS: Stars of Spatial Science. She received a PhD from Yale’s School of the Environment and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Qingsong Sun Qingsong Sun received his PhD from Boston University, USA. He worked on the Black Marble project when he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is working in the Land Data Operational Products Evaluation group at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interest centers on MODIS/VIIRS land product quality assessment. The objective of land products quality assessment is to evaluate and document the scientific quality of the land products with respect to their intended performance.

Hannes Taubenböck Hannes Taubenböck received his diploma in Geography from the Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München (Germany) in 2004, and the PhD from the Julius Maximilians‐Universität Würzburg (Germany) in 2008. In 2005, he joined the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR). After a Postdoctoral Research Phase with the University of Würzburg (2007–2010), he returned to DLR–DFD in 2010. In 2013, he became the Head of the “City and Society” team. In 2019, he habilitated at the University of Würzburg in Geography. His current research focuses on remote sensing and big data analyses for urban geography.

Jinyan Tian Jinyan Tian is a Lecturer of Beijing Laboratory of Water Resources Security, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. His research interests include remote sensing of vegetation mapping and forest parameters inversion. He was an investigator for over projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundations of China. He authored or coauthored over 5 patents and 15 papers.

Jamon Van Den Hoek Jamon Van Den Hoek is an Associate Professor of Geography at Oregon State University where he leads the Conflict Ecology lab. His research seeks new insights on the agency, decision‐making processes, and survival of refugees, internally displaced peoples, and others affected by violent conflict. He maps settlements, forests, and farms using satellite data to connect patterns of long‐term landscape change to processes of conflict, displacement, resilience, and peace. He was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison where he was a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow.

Sebastian van der Linden Sebastian van der Linden is a Professor for earth observation and geoinformation science at the Institute for Geography and Geology of the University of Greifswald, Germany. He holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences and PhD in Geography. His main research interest lies in the application of machine learning with optical remote sensing data for a better understanding of land surface processes, especially in the field of imaging spectroscopy and multispectral time series analysis. He is PI for the EnMAP‐Box development, a toolbox for Earth observation data analysis in QGIS.

Keli Wang Keli Wang is a doctoral student of Geographic Information Science at Peking University, Beijing, China. Her research interest centers on spatial epidemiology and spatial interaction. Her research has been published in peer‐reviewed journals.

Le Wang Le Wang is a Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He got his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests focus on remote sensing of coastal mangrove forests, invasive species, and urban environments. He was the chair of the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group (2015–2017), and currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Remote Sensing, a guest editor for the journal “Remote Sensing of Environment,” an editorial board member of the journal “Annals of the American Association of Geographers.” As of today, he has published more than 90 referred journal articles, which have been cited 4800 times on Google Scholar. His work has been funded by NSF, USDA, and USGS.

Zhuosen Wang Zhuosen Wang is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland College Park and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a science team member of the NASA MODIS and VIIRS Land Discipline team. He coleads the CEOS Land Product Validation Subgroup Surface Radiation/Albedo Product Validation focus area and serves as Chair of IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (Washington D.C./ Northern Virginia Chapter). His research interests include monitoring energy services and human activities using Suomi‐NPP VIIRS day/night band and modeling and evaluation of land surface anisotropic characteristics and albedo.

Eric Weber Eric Weber is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA. His research focuses on the application of remote sensing and associated built‐environment data for spatiotemporal mapping and characterization of human populations, including the development of bottom‐up models that minimize reliance on national census data for mapping populations. He currently leads the development of LandScan USA, a high‐resolution gridded model of day and night populations in the USA.

Tzai‐Hung Wen Tzai‐Hung Wen is a Professor of Geography at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. His academic career focuses on developing geospatial computational methods to improve the understanding of public health and the urban environment. His major original articles are published in Scientific Reports, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, International Journal of Health Geographics, and Applied Geography. He currently serves as the Chairman of Chinese Cartographic Association, the Editor‐in‐Chief of Journal of Population Studies, and Associate Editor of BMC Public Health.

Man S. Wong Man S. Wong is an Associate Professor of Remote Sensing and GIS in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo‐Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on the use of remote sensing to study urban heat island effect, urban environmental quality, landslides, vegetation and ecosystems, spectral mixture analysis, aerosol retrieval, air quality, and dust storm monitoring. He authored or coauthored more than 100 peer‐reviewed journal articles since 2005.

Zhifeng Wu Zhifeng Wu is a Professor and Dean of the School of Geography and Remote Sensing at the Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include urban remote sensing, terrestrial remote sensing, environmental GIS, and spatiotemporal data analysis, and monitoring of natural resources. He authored or coauthored over 140 articles. He is a Vice‐Chair of the International Association of Landscape Ecology‐China (IALE‐China).

Yong Xu Yong Xu is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, China. He specializes in remote sensing and spatial analysis applied in the urban environment. He is the author or a coauthor for over 20 referred journal articles and three patents. He was a winner for the International Data Fusion Contest Award sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in 2017.

Jinxin Yang Jinxin Yang is a Lecturer in the School of Geography and Remote Sensing at the Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. She received her PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2017. Her research interest centers on thermal remote sensing, surface energy balance, and urban climate. She authored or coauthored over 10 articles.

Kai‐Ling Yang Kai‐Ling Yang is an undergraduate student in the Department of Geography at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Her research interests include spatial data analysis, environmental remote sensing, and geolocated data clustering. She achieved the College Student Research Scholarship, and her current research study is to establish a modeling framework to capture and analyze the spatial patterns of geotagged photos on Instagram.

Xiaojun Yang Xiaojun Yang, Editor of this volume, is a Professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at the Florida State University, USA. His research interests center on the development of remote sensing and geospatial information technologies with applications in the urban and environmental domains. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications including eight books with John Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis, and Springer.

Dameng Yin Dameng Yin is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China. Her research focus is on remote sensing, more specifically on the remote sensing of forests and agriculture. She has authored 15 papers, including an award‐winning “highly cited paper” on individual mangrove delineation using UAV LiDAR.

Junjun Yin Junjun Yin is an Assistant Research Professor at the Social Science Research Institute and Population Research Institute, and an ICDS Associate at the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests center on GIScience with a specific focus on understanding population dynamics in the urban environment. His main research agenda employs computational geography approaches and geospatial Big Data to model human–urban environment interactions concerning urban mobility, accessibility, and sustainability.

Yihong Yuan Yihong Yuan received her PhD in Geography and M.A. in Statistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her B.S. in Geographic Information Systems from Peking University, China. She is currently an Associate Professor of Geography at the Texas State University. Her research focuses on big geo‐data analytics and spatial‐temporal knowledge discovery. She has an extensive background in analyzing the roles of communication technologies in reshaping today’s connected society. Dr. Yuan has led and participated in several projects on human mobility modeling funded by national and international agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Naizhuo Zhao Naizhuo Zhao is a Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University, Canada. His research lies in understanding human–environment interactions using remote sensing and social sensing. He has published 50 peer‐reviewed journal papers. He received a PhD in Geography from the Texas State University, San Marcos. Before joining McGill University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Texas Tech University.

Fan Zhang Fan Zhang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He received his PhD and M.S. in Geo‐Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a B.S. in Electronic Information Science at Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai. His research interests include spatiotemporal urban data mining, computer vision, and social sensing. He is the author of over 30 peer‐reviewed journal and conference papers.