Yaqing is a postdoc researcher at the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science & Remote Sensing.Before joining WUR, she worked as a researcher in Earth Observation in the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, University of Leicester; prior to that, she worked as a Remote Sensing and GIS scientist for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. She obtained her PhD degree in Global Change in the same department, following a 3-year Masters in GIS and Environmental Economics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Her research interests include:

- Radar remote sensing

- Near-real-time change detection 

- Biomass mapping