Dr. Lifang Zhao is an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth,Aerospace Information Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographical Information System from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Research Interests:

Her research focuses on remote sensing-based Intelligent interpretation,land surface processes，and assessment of Ecolgical Environment  using multi-source remote sensing imagery.

Intelligent interpretation of remote sensing data,land surface processes,and Ecological Environment Assessment

[1] The paper"A Dual-Branch U-Net for Staple Crop Classification in Complex Scenes"has been selected for the"Best Research Award"in Remote Sensing in 2025.

[2] The paper"Estimating net radiation flux in the Tibetan Plateau by assimiating MODIS LST products with an ensemble Kalman filter and particle filter"has been accepted the <Comprehensive Remote Sensing> Editor-in-Chief. Shunlin Liang  in 2018. The specialized publication has pointed out the paper firstly proposed estimation of net radiation with data assimilation method. It is one of three main estimation of net radiation methods internationally  at present. 

[1] Jiajin Zhang,Lifang Zhao*,Hua Yang.A Dual-Branch U-Net 

for Staple Crop Classification in Complex Scenes. Remote Sensing. 2025,726,1-19.

[2] Lifang Zhao,Zhanfeng Shen,Chunming Li,Ming Guo,Yuan  Sun,and Lijing Gao. Evaluating the Estimation of Net Radiaition Based on MODIS Data and CoLM: A Case Study in the Tibetan Plateau. IEEE Journal of Selected in Applied Observations and 

Remote Sensing. 2019,12(2). 460-470.

[3] Zhen Li,Lifang Zhao*,Zhuo Fu. Estimating net radiation flux in the Tibetan Plateau by assimiating MODIS LST products with an ensemble Kalman filter and particle filter. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 2012,19:1-11.

[4] Zhao Lifang,Shen Zhanfeng,Li Chunming,Gao Lijing,Guo Ming,Sun Yuan,Peng Man.The progress introduction on the study of surface net radiation flux observation,simulation,and assimilation. Journal of Remote Sensing.2019,23(1)24-36.

[5] Zhao Lifang，Fu Zhuo，Qiwendong，etc. Method and system for remote sensing data sample information fusion and multi-scale reconstruction based on AI technology. 2024，Chinese Patent. 202410142848.1.