Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada
Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada leads QuantaLab Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and holds an Honorary Professor position at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He focuses on remote sensing technologies for biotic and abiotic stress detection using hyperspectral and thermal imagery acquired by piloted aircraft and drones.
With an Agricultural Engineering Degree (UCO, Spain), MSc in Remote Sensing (UK), and PhD in Earth and Space Science (Canada), he was Faculty member at the University of California, Davis, USA, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC), Senior Scientist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, and Professor in Remote Sensing and Precision Agriculture in the School of Agriculture and Engineering, Melbourne University. Highly-cited researcher since 2019, he is author of over two hundred scientific papers published in international journals. He is Associate Editor of Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE) and the European Journal of Agronomy (EJA) and has been recipient of awards during his scientific career in Spain, United Kingdom and Canada.
Fu Zhang
Dr. Fu Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research focuses on the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
Dr. Zhang has worked on various topics of UAVs, including design, navigation, control, and perception, as well as LiDAR SLAM algorithms, such as odometry, place recognition, mapping, and multi-sensor fusion. His team received the IROS’23 Best Paper Award on Robot Mechanisms and Design and the ICRA23 Best Mechanical Design Award in workshop on Agile Movements: Animal Behavior, Biomechanics, and Robot Devices. His work are selected for the TMECH’23 Best Paper Award Finalist, IROS’23 Best Paper Award Finalists (two), and ICRA’23 Outstanding Navigation Paper Finalist. His papers in Science Robotics are selected as the cover page of the journal or visually featured on the website of Science. Dr. Zhang’s work in this field has also led to numerous championships in international SLAM challenges and has found wide applications in the community.
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