- Associate Editor: (2001-2013), the journal of
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Editorial Board Member: Journal of Remote Sensing
- Editorial Board Member: Journal of Resources and Ecology
- Guest Editor: special issues of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing
Reviews, Remote Sensig of Environment, IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Digital Earth
- subject-Editor (1999-2008): the journal of Geographic Information Sciences
- Manager: the electronic mailing list of "Remote
Sensing of Environment"
- Co-Chair: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission VII/WG1 on Fundamental Physics and Modelling, (2004-2012)
- Chair:
IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society, Washington/North
Virginia Chapter,
2000
- Organizer, The 1st International Conference on Land Remote Sensing: Algorithms and Products, May 30-June 1, 2012, Chengdu, China
- Member of the Technical Program Committee, the 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'2012), July 22-27, 2012, Munich, German
- Organizer, The 2nd Summer School on Land Remote Sensing: Algorithms and Products, July 5-10, 2012, Beijing Normal University, China
- Member of the Scientific Committee, The Second International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA 2012), June 8-11, 2012, Shanghai, China
- Organizer, The 1st Summer School on Land Remote Sensing: Algorithms and Products, July 10-15, 2011, Beijing Normal University, China
- Member of the Scientific Committee, the 3rd International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, Sept. 27- Oct. 1, 2010, Valencia, Spain
- Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee & Chair of the Organizing Committee, Workshop on Remote Sensing Inversion algorithms, July 11-12, 2010, Beijing Normal University, China
- Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee, the 2nd Summer School on Land Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation, July 13-16, Beijing Normal University, China
- The 2nd International Workshop on Energy and Water Cycle over the Tibetan Plateau and High-elevations, July 19-21, 2010,Lhasa, China
- The Fourth International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, July 21-23, Lhasa, China
- Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee & the Oversea Organizer , International Conference on Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets: Measurements, Modeling and Applications, March 18-20, 2009. Beijing, China
- Member of the Technical Program Committee, the 2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'2009), July 13-17, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa
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Member, Technical Program Committee, IGARSS'2008, July 6-11, 2008, Boston, USA.
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Member, Organizing Committee, A3.1 Terrestrial phenomena and land
products from space: validation, application and perspectives, 37th Committee
on Space Research (COSPAR) Assembly,
13 - 20 July 2008, Montreal, Canada.
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Member, Technical Program Committee,
the 15th International Conference on GEOINFORMATICS, May 26-28, 2007, Nanjing, China.
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Member, Scientific Committee,
the 10th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, March 12.-14. 2007, Davos, Switzerland.
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Member, Scientific Committee, the 2nd International
Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing,
Sept. 25-29, 2006, Valencia, Spain
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Member, Technical Program Committee, IGARSS'2006, July 31 - August 4, 2006, Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Member, Organizing Committee, A3.1 Terrestrial phenomena and land
products from space: validation, application and perspectives, 36th Committee
on Space Research (COSPAR) Assembly,
16 - 23 July 2006, Beijing, China.
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Member,Scientific Organising Committee, the 4th International Workshop on Multiangular Measurements and Modleing (IWMMM-4), March 20-24, 2006, Sydney, Australia
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Chair of the International Scientific Committee, the 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS) , Oct. 17-19, 2005, Beijing, China
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Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2005, July 25-29, 2005, Seoul, South Korea
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Overseas organizer & Chair, The International Workshop on Spatial Technologies Applied to Agriculture, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, June, 2002;
- Organizer: the International Forum on BRDF (IFB) at San Francisco,
Dec. 1998
- Proposal Reviewer: the
NASA, NSF, Natural Environment Research Council at UK, Space Research Organization of the Netherlands (SRON), and LANL
- Member: NASA proposal review panels
- Reviewer of the following journals: Applied Optics, Agronomy:Agriculture and Environment, Canadian Journal of Remote
Sensing, Geographic Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences
and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geographic Information Systems,
International Journal of Remote Sensing, Journal of Climate, Journal of
Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, Photogrammetry Engineering and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote
Sensing Reviews.
- Reviewer of the book manuscripts for the Wadsworth Publisher, WCB/McGraw-Hill Publisher, and John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Consultant: Raytheon Systems Company
- Departmental Service
Academic Director, Master of Professional Study in Geospatial Information Sciences (MPS GIS) (2007-2011)
Chair, Full Professor Search Committee (2012)
Chair of the APT Committee (2010; 2013)
Chair of the Graduate Committee (2010-2011)
Chair of Teaching Committee (2006-2008)
Chair of ad hoc Committee on Developing the Masters
Professional Study in Geographic Information Sciences (MPS GIS) (2004,2006-2007)
Chair of Faculty Search Committee (2005 - 2006)
Chair of Undergraduate Committee (Sept. 2003 - May 2004)
Chair of Diversity Committee (Sept. 2002 - May 2003)
Primary faculty Advisor for the undergraduate degree
program: Geographic Information
Science
and Computer Cartography (1996 - 2005)
