Biography

Xin Li is a professor at Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His primary research interests include land data assimilation, application of remote sensing and GIS in hydrology and cryosphere science, and integrated watershed modeling. B.S. degree in GIS and Cartography from Nanjing University in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree in Remote Sensing and GIS from CAS in 1998. A standing council member of the Geographical Society of China (GSC), a member of the Standing Committee on Information Management and Technology (SC-IMT) under the Infrastructure Commission (INFCOM) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a member of the AGU Global Engagement Committee, and a member of the Chinese National Committee for the World Climate Research Programme (CNC-WCRP). He and his group have developed the Chinese Land Data Assimilation System. He is the lead scientist of the Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (WATER) and the Heihe Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/heihe), which are the most comprehensive remote sensing experiments conducted in recent years in China.