Zhao Gengxing, PhD, the dean and professor of College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University(SDAU), council member of China Land Resource Society, standing director of Shandong Land Resource Society, Soil Science Society, Remote Sensing Technology Application Society, Agricultural Environment Protection Society, and member of Shandong Agricultural Advisory Group. He is also the column associate editor of Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE).
Dr. Zhao has worked on SDAU since 1985 and got his Ph.D. in Land Resource and Remote Sensing from Zhejiang University in 1998, M.S. in Land Resource in 1990 and B.S. in Soil & Chemistry in 1985 from SDAU. He has ever conducted cooperative research as visiting professor in the Institute for Geospatial Research and Education, Eastern Michigan University from Feb. to Aug. 2009, and in Dept of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University in the US from Feb. 2001 to Mar. 2002, respectively.
The main courses he taught are Progress in Resource Science, Soil Resources and Information Technology, Resource and Environment Informatics for graduate students, and Remote Sensing Basics, Remote Sensing Image Processing and Application for undergraduate students. Currently, there are 15 doctorial and Master graduate students under his supervision.
Dr. Zhao has been actively involved with research of remote sensing acquisition and monitoring for agricultural resources, ecological effects and RS models of LUCC, GIS supported quantitative and automatic land evaluation, and nutrient and yield estimation for crops and apple tree. He has served as principal investigators in more than 20 projects sponsored by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, the National “Spark Plan” of China , the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Science Foundation of China, and Agricultural Department of China etc. He is recipient of over 10 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards at national and provincial levels. In addition, he has published more than 150 papers on peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, Pedosphere , China Land Science, Transactions of CSAE, Acta Ecologica Sinica, Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, and Journal of Natural Resources. As associate editor and editor, he has published 15 monographs.