Zihan Zhang

Dr. Zihan Zhang specializes in atmospheric remote sensing, with particular expertise in polarimetric techniques. His research focuses on aerosol retrieval from polarimeters, including the DPC series, POLDER-3/PARASOL, and SPEXone/PACE, using both full-physics and machine learning algorithms. His interests also include Bidirectional Polarization Distribution Function (BPDF) modeling and polarization-based target detection.
He received the B.S. degree in Remote Sensing Science and Technology from Wuhan University in 2019, and the Ph.D. degree in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Peking University in 2024. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a visiting scholar at the Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON), where he conducted research on aerosol remote sensing using the Remote sensing of Trace gas and Aerosol Products (RemoTAP) algorithm. In 2024, he joined the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS), where he has since worked on advancing the applications of Chinese on-orbit polarimeters.