{"id":483715,"date":"2026-03-19T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:50:08","slug":"leading-chinese-remote-sensing-scientist-zhang-jinshui-dies-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483715\/","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 research and development programmes in China and was instrumental in boosting 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 (FGS) at Beijing Normal University, died in Beijing on March 9 following \u201cunsuccessful medical treatment\u201d, according to multiple Chinese media reports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The faculty held a memorial ceremony on March 11, but his obituary is no longer accessible on its website.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Staff told state-affiliated Jimu News that the obituary was removed from the website after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Several of his students have suggested that Zhang\u2019s death may have been caused by a combination of illness and an accident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zhang Jinshui 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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/548b1c6d-3e33-4b07-bec9-e30dbeee0baf_e8c92f6e.jpg\" title=\"Zhang Jinshui and his research team developed survey technologies for crop area statistics, integrating satellite, aerial and ground-based observations. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Zhang Jinshui 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 posted on social media last Saturday that Zhang had in recent years developed a degenerative neurological disease and had died after a fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang Jinshui, a pioneering scientist in remote sensing who led major research and development programmes in China and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1980,5713,171812,891,67088,142254,27810,110828,33878,171810,90,28111,416,1668,56,54,158,55,171813,171811],"class_list":["post-483715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-als","tag-beijing","tag-beijing-normal-university","tag-china","tag-hebei-province","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zhang","tag-zhang-jinshui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}