Yongjun Zhang, Professor, dean of the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University. He has been engaged in the research of integrated photogrammetric processing of space and aerial multi-source remote sensing data, including combined bundle block adjustment of multi-source remote sensing datasets, combined processing with multi-feature of multi-source satellite imagery, intelligent processing of low altitude imagery, etc. for a long time. He is responsible for the development of the first Digital Photogrammetric Grid (DPGrid) processing system for space and aerial remote sensing imagery with complete independent intellectual property rights in China. It was successfully applied to national major projects and various projects of geographic information product, as well as the quick response of serious disasters on Wenchuan earthquake, etc. In 2015, the technology was transferred to ESRI Inc. US, which is the first technology export with independent intellectual property rights in the field of surveying and remote sensing.

Prof. Yongjun Zhang won the second class of National Science and Technology Progress Award (2017) and the outstanding class of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Progress Award (2015) as the principal investigator. He has presided more than 10 projects of national natural science foundation, national key research and development program, national science and technology support program and national 863 program. In addition, Prof. Zhang has published more than 80 academic papers on top-tier SCI journals. He holds 25 national patents of invention and 25 computer software copyrights, and is the chairman of the international academic conference "PhotoGA 2017".