Min Xiao received a Master's degree in cartography and geographic information systems from Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2024, she worked at an agricultural remote sensing company in Beijing, conducting research on crop growth monitoring and yield estimation. She is currently applying to pursue a Ph.D. degree at the College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University.

Shugui Zhou received a Ph.D. degree in cartography and geographic information systems from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2020. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Geo-Science and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, P. R. China. His research interests include thermal infrared hyperspectral remote sensing, retrieval and validation of land surface temperature and emissivity, and blending of remote-sensed land surface temperature.

Jie Cheng received a Ph.D. degree in cartography and remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2008., He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, from 2008 to 2010, an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, from 2009 to 2010, and a Visiting Scientist at the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory,  Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA, from 2017 to 2018. He is a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. His main research interests include the estimation of land surface variables from satellite observations, radiative transfer modeling, and studies on Earth's radiation balance. He has published over 100 SCI-indexed peer-reviewed articles. He developed the Essential thermaL Infrared remoTe sEnsing (ELITE) product suite (http://elite.bnu.edu.cn). Dr. Cheng is the Associate Editor of Remote Sensing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.