Meet the editors

Dr. Yuanzhi Zhang is a research fellow and Professor of Earth System Science and Coastal Remote Sensing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Nanjing Information University of Science and Technology, China. He received a DSc in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland. Dr. Zhang has 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and 15 books and book chapters to his credit. He

received the Second-Rank Award, Actions for Raising Critical Awareness (ARCA) Prize at the International Symposium "Environment 2010: Situation and Perspectives for the European Union," Portugal, in 2003, and the First-Rank Award of the Guangdong Provincial Prize of Science and Technology, China, in 2013. Dr. Zhang was an associate editor for the *International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation* from 2012 to 2021.

Dr. Qiuming Cheng is currently a professor at the School of Earth Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China, and the founding director of the State Key Lab of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences. He received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1994. He became a faculty member in 1995 and was promoted to full professor in 2002 at York

University, Canada. Dr. Cheng has published more than 250 refereed papers and 17 book chapters. He received several prestigious awards, including the William Christian Krumbein Medal from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), the AAG Gold Medal from the International Association of Applied Geochemists (AAG), Canada Foundation for Innovation Award (CFI), and the State Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Government. He served as president of IAMG and is past president of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a foreign member of Academia Europaea (AE).

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