Wang Changlin is the Deputy Director of International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the auspices of UNESCO (HIST), Professor Wang Changlin is affiliated with the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously, he served at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE), and the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications (IRSA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he holds the positions of Secretary-General of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), Executive Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE, an SCI-indexed journal published by Taylor & Francis), and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Big Earth Data (a sister journal of IJDE, jointly published by ISDE, AIR, and Taylor & Francis). Since 2002, he has been dedicated to the Secretariat of the International Steering Committee for the International Symposium on Digital Earth and has subsequently contributed to the establishment and development of the International Society for Digital Earth.