Yan Dongmei is a Professor of CBAS. She received her Ph. D. degree in Cartography and Geographic Information System from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, in 2004. She has been working as a Professor, Assistant of the Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS, and Director of the Administrative Office for Big Earth Data Science Engineering (CASEarth) since 2018. She served as Assistant of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Research and Director of the Division of Information Technology Sciences, CAS, from 2013 to 2018. She was also the Deputy Director and Director of the Technical Division of Centre for Earth Observation and Digital Earth from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, she worked as Associate Professor of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station, CAS, from 2005 to 2009. With her extensive experience in digital earth, sustainable development, and scientific innovation, she has led the Data Sharing Working Group of the Strategic Priority Research Program - Big Earth Data Science Engineering (CASEarth) since its establishment in 2018. In addition, Prof. Yan has been involved in a variety of projects. She was responsible for the key R&D project for Hainan Province from 2018 to 2019. She was also in charge of the project "High-Precision Extraction and Verification of City Clusters Using Big Data for Medium and High-resolution Remote Sensing Satellites." She won the Third Prize of the Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2005 and ranked first personally. Then, she won the First Prize of the Ministerial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2015 and ranked tenth personally. Report on remote sensing monitoring of China sustainable development (2016, 2017) are two of her most recent publications. Her current research focuses on remote sensing and image processing, information extraction and application of optical remote sensing images, image understanding, and computer vision.