Yi Qi received the Ph.D. degree in geography from The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. His research interests include developing remote sensing and geographical information system methodology to understand vegetation dynamics and interaction with climatic change and ecological disturbance, remote sensing of live fuel moisture content, imaging spectroscopy of plant biochemistry and carbon dioxide, wildfire danger, and fire ecology.