Liu Liangyun is a Professor of CABS. He received his Ph.D. degree in optics from Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precession Mechanics, Chinese Academy Sciences, in 2000. He is the winner of the first National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2012, and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2018, and selected as one of the “Leading Talents” in the “Ten Thousand Talents Program”. He has been awarded by six government’s prizes, including two second-class National Scientific and Technological Progress Award. He has published more than 200 journal papers, and his papers have been cited more than 7000 times by Google Scholar Citation Database. He has written one book “Vegetation Quantitative Remote Sensing Principles and Applications”, and his book and lecture were awarded by excellent textbook and best course by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was Executive Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Remote Sensing, Associate Editor of Geographical Sciences. His research experience and interests are in vegetation quantitatively remote sensing and spatiotemporal analysis of remotely sensed data.