Model Team

A model science team with members from several institutions has been formed, during the development of LESS. We welcome any types of collaboration, if you have any question, including inquiries about model usage and model features, reporting model bugs, suggesting new model features, plugin submissions, etc.Please do not hesitate to conact us. 我们欢迎各种类型的交流及合作,包括模型功能和使用,模型BUG提交,模型功能建议和合作开发,插件提交等,如有问题请联系我们。

LESS Science Team Leader: Jianbo Qi漆建波

  • Associate Professor from Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China
  • The founder, primary developer, maintainer, and model trainer of LESS.
  • Focus on 3D radiative transfer modeling, 3D LiDAR data processing and parameter retrieval, developed the popular LiDAR ground filtering algorithm: Cloth Simulation Filter (CSF).
  • Email: [email protected]

Team Guider: Donghui Xie(谢东辉

  • Associate Professor from Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China
  • Focus on 3D forest structural information retrieval, Computer simulation model of vegetation, remote sensing image processing.
  • Email: [email protected]

Team member


Model development
Bang Sun (孙浜)
  • 2022 Master student, BNU
  • 3D chlorophyll fluorescence modeling
Jifan Wei (魏继繁)
  • 2024 Master student, BNU
  • Differentiable radiative transfer modeling
Model application
Xun Zhao (赵勋)
  • 2021 Ph.D student, BJFU
  • Fine-scale vegetation parameter retrieval
Zhexiu Yu (余哲修)
  • 2020 Ph.D student, BJFU
  • Forest parameter inversion (biomass)
Siying He (何思颖)
  • 2022 master student, BJFU
  • Spectral invariant theory
Yan Zhang (张妍)
  • 2023 master student, BNU
  • Crop monitoring by band selection