Dr.  Cao’s mainly focused on the development of new models and methods for parameters  inversion and information extraction from remote sensing imagery especially for  environmental management and natural disaster monitoring. Over the past five  years, he was the principle investigator of the National Natural Science  Foundation (NSFC) and the Foundation of National/Provincial/Ministerial Key  Laboratory. He was also the main investigator of more than 10 scientific  research projects, such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Key  Basic Research Development Program (973), and the National High-tech Development  Program (863). So far, he has published over 50 research papers in journals and  conferences.

His current  research interests are:

(1) Information extraction and change  detection based on Remote Sensing

(2) Environmental Management and Disaster  Monitoring 

(3) Spatio-temporal information fusion and  analysis