International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Yong XUE

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 19 September 2019, Professor Yong Xue is a distinguished Chinese-British remote sensing scientist and Chartered Physicist, with internationally recognised contributions to quantitative remote sensing, aerosol retrieval, and geocomputation. Born in China, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading in 1988 and subsequently developed an international academic career spanning the United Kingdom, China, and Europe. He currently serves as Professor in Computation at the College of Engineering and Technology, University of Derby, while also holding appointments as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (RADI/CAS), Guest Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and the Information Engineering University of the People’s Liberation Army. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Remote Sensing and on the editorial boards of numerous international journals in remote sensing and Earth observation. His academic career has combined methodological advances in satellite remote sensing with large-scale applications in atmospheric and environmental monitoring.

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Professor Xue’s research has focused on the development of quantitative methods for aerosol optical depth retrieval, thermal-inertia modelling, and the integration of multi-sensor satellite observations for monitoring atmospheric composition and land-surface processes. Through sustained involvement in international collaborative research programmes, he has contributed to improved characterisation of long-term aerosol variability over China and Central Europe, the development of the CHINA Collection 2.0 aerosol optical-depth dataset, and the post-calibration of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data records for climate applications. His selected works address the generation of global hourly aerosol optical-depth datasets from geostationary satellite observations, long-term aerosol optical-depth retrieval from AVHRR data over land, synergistic retrieval and development of the CHINA Collection 2.0 aerosol dataset, AVHRR post-calibration using SeaWiFS observations and pseudo-invariant targets, and advanced thermal-inertia modelling. Collectively, these contributions reflect a sustained research programme connecting satellite remote sensing methodology with the quantitative assessment of air quality, atmospheric change, climate variability, and sustainable environmental management across Eurasia.