Bingfang Wu

Dr. Wu currently is a professor of State Key Lab. of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is co-chair of GEO/GEOSS GEOGLAM flagship and DBAR agriculture and food security working group (DBAR Agri). 

His research interests are crop monitoring and food security Analysis, water resources and water consumption management, big data for food and water as well as exploring remote sensing application methodology. He and his team have developed remote sensing based operational monitoring systems with novel technologies including CropWatch since 1992, DroughtWatch since 1991, ETWatch since 2002, EcoWatch since 20110, which have been customized for and deployed for many user requirements. 

Dr. WU Bingfang obtained his PhD degree in 1989 on environmental planning and management from Tsinghua University, and Master degree in 1985 on water resources management from Tianjin University. 

Dr. WU Bingfang has published 8 monographs and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. He is Editor in Chief of China LandCover Atlas (1:1,000,000)