{"id":392869,"date":"2026-03-19T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/392869\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:19:10","slug":"leading-chinese-remote-sensing-scientist-zhang-jinshui-dies-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/392869\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Chinese remote-sensing scientist Zhang Jinshui dies at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang Jinshui, a pioneering scientist in remote sensing who led major R&amp;D programmes in China and was instrumental in enhancing the country\u2019s food security with satellite technologies, has died at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang, a professor and doctoral supervisor in the faculty of geographical science at Beijing Normal University, died in Beijing on March 9 following \u201cunsuccessful medical treatment\u201d, according to multiple mainland media reports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last Wednesday the research institute where he had been based held a farewell ceremony, but his online obituary was no longer accessible. Institute staff told the mainland outlet Jimu News that the obituary had been removed from its website after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Several students familiar with Zhang have suggested that the scientist\u2019s death may have been caused by a combination of illness and an accident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zhang and his research team developed survey technologies for crop area statistics, integrating satellite, aerial and ground-based observations. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/548b1c6d-3e33-4b07-bec9-e30dbeee0baf_e8c92f6e.jpg\" title=\"Zhang and his research team developed survey technologies for crop area statistics, integrating satellite, aerial and ground-based observations. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Zhang and his research team developed survey technologies for crop area statistics, integrating satellite, aerial and ground-based observations. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A former student of Zhang\u2019s wrote on social media last Saturday that his teacher had in recent years developed a degenerative neurological disease and died following a fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang Jinshui, a pioneering scientist in remote sensing who led major R&amp;D programmes in China and was instrumental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[82420,1793,179245,381,18,49242,19,17,144020,13566,104678,19025,179243,133,19453,451,9312,384,179246,179244],"class_list":["post-392869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-als","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-normal-university","tag-china","tag-eire","tag-hebei-province","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lanzhou-university","tag-michigan-state-university","tag-national-natural-science-foundation-of-china","tag-rednote","tag-remote-sensing-of-environment","tag-science","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-space","tag-sweden","tag-united-states","tag-zhang","tag-zhang-jinshui"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116254865283093797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}