Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2018, Professor Rongxing Li is a distinguished Chinese photogrammetrist and remote sensing scientist whose research has focused on space Earth observation, planetary mapping, and marine geodesy. Born in 1959, he received his Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1990. Professor Li currently serves as Professor (full-time), Master’s and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, and Director of the Tongji Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications. He is a national high-level talent and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Previously, he served as Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, and as the Lowber B. Strange Endowed Chair Professor at The Ohio State University, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). He has served as Chair of the Cryosphere and Hydrosphere Working Group of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the SCI-indexed international journal Marine Geodesy.