FIGURE 2. A group photo of participants in the 2019 IEEE GRSS Summer School. FIGURE 3. A group photo of the MIRS 2019 workshop participants. The IEEE GRSS event was merged with the Ninth Beijing Normal University Summer School on Land Surface Satellite Data Inversion and Applications (18-22 July). The school generated 31 reports focusing on five topics: remote sensing data preprocessing, land surface parameter inversion, remote sensing integrated experimental observation and validation, remote sensing data processing and application, and remote sensing advanced product production and application. The summer school helped students understand the principles of quantitative remote sensing modeling and retrieval and provided them with a comprehensive grasp of 140 the application of quantitative remote sensing research. It also promoted international exchange and application of research results from related disciplines. Figure 2 shows a group photo of the summer school participants. Sponsored by the GRSS and hosted by the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and Zhejiang University, Beijing, the 2019 International Workshop on Optical and Microwave Modeling in Remote Sensing (MIRS 2019) was conducted successfully 10-11 September in Hangzhou, China. MIRS 2019 brought together 55 Chinese and international experts to gain a more comprehensive perspective on the progress of MIRS. Workshop participants included IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE JUNE 2020