Leading Chinese remote-sensing scientist Zhang Jinshui dies at 47

Zhang Jinshui, a pioneering scientist in remote sensing who led major R&D programmes in China and was instrumental in enhancing the country’s food security with satellite technologies, has died at the age of 47. Zhang, a professor and doctoral supervisor in the faculty of geographical science at Beijing Normal University, died in Beijing on March 9 following “unsuccessful medical treatment”, according to multiple mainland media reports. Last Wednesday the research institute where he had been...

By Dannie Peng