Dr. Yuan Zeng is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Ecosystem Remote Sensing Laboratory. She also serves as the Secretary-General of the Ecological Remote Sensing Committee of the Ecological Society of China. Dr. Yuan Zeng received her BSc degree in Science from Beijing Normal University in 2001, and obtained her MSc degree and PhD degree from Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Her research interests include ecological variables retrieval and modeling, with a particular focus on the remote sensing of plant diversity estimation for forest, grassland, wetland and cropland over the past five years. 

 Ecosystem Remote Sensing 

[1] Chen, J., Zhao, D., Zheng, Z., Xu, C., Pang, Y., Zeng, Y.* A clustering-based automatic registration of UAV and terrestrial LiDAR forest point clouds. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2024, 217, 108648.

[2] Zheng, Z., Schmid, B., Zeng, Y.*, Schuman, M.C., Zhao, D., Schaepman, M.E., Morsdorf, F., Remotely sensed functional diversity and its association with productivity in a subtropical forest. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023, 2023290: 113530.

[3] Zheng, Z., Zeng, Y.*, Schneider, F.D., Zhao, Y., Zhao, D., Schmid, B., Schaepman, M.E., Morsdorf, F., Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021, 252: 112170.

[4] Zhao Y., Zeng Y.*, Zheng Z., Dong W., Zhao D., Wu B., Zhao Q., Forest species diversity mapping using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data in a subtropical forest in China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018, 213: 104–114. 

[5] Zeng Y.*, Schaepman M.E., Wu B., Clevers J.G.P.W., Bregt A.K., Quantitative forest canopy structure assessment using an inverted geometric-optical model and up-scaling. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2009, 30(6):1385-1406. 

[6] Zeng Y.*, Schaepman M.E., Wu B., Clevers J.G.P.W., Bregt A.K., Scaling-based forest structural change detection using an inverted geometric-optical model in the Three Gorges region of China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2008, 112(12):4261-4271. 

[7] Zeng Y.*, Huang J., Wu B., Schaepman M.E., De Bruin S., Clevers J.G.P.W., Comparison of the inversion of two canopy reflectance models inversion for mapping forest crown closure using imaging spectroscopy. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2008, 34(3):235-244. 

[8] Zeng Y.*, Schaepman M.E., Wu B., Clevers J.G.P.W., Bregt A.K., Forest structural variables retrieval using EO-1 Hyperion data in combination with linear spectral unmixing and an inverted geometric-optical model. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2007, 11(5): 648-658.