李忠平，厦门大学海洋与地球学院“唐世凤”海洋科学讲席教授，美国光学学会Fellow，国际“终生科学影响力”专家，国家高层次引进人才，IEEE TGRS、Journal of Remote Sensing副主编，国际海洋水色协调组(IOCCG)水色暑期班常任授课老师。1994年获美国南佛罗里达大学博士学位，历任美国海军实验室(NRL)研究员、美国密西西比州立大学研究教授、美国马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校教授。多年从事海洋光学、海（水）色遥感研究，系国内外多个海色卫星计划成员，“海丝二号”多光谱小卫星负责人，主持完成及在研国家自然科学基金重点项目、科技部重点研发计划等多项项目。在国际主流学术期刊发表学术论文200余篇，引用超2.6万次（Google Scholar，2025年10月），推翻并革新了国际上采用近70年的水体透明度经典理论，准分析算法(QAA)论文在2012年被国际主流期刊《Applied Optics》评选为其50年历史以来最具影响力论文之一，研发的多项遥感算法被国际上多个水色卫星数据处理系统采用。

研究方向

 自然水体辐射传输、海洋水色遥感反演算法及遥感产品应用。

Radiative transfer in natural water bodies, ocean color remote sensing inversion algorithms, and applications of remote sensing products

代表性论文

Publications List (download) 

Lee, Z., K. L. Carder, J. Marra, R. G. Steward, and M. J. Perry. 1996. Estimating primary production at depth from remote sensing. Applied Optics, 35, 463-474.

Lee, Z., K. L. Carder, C. D. Mobley, R. G. Steward, J. S. Patch. 1998. Hyperspectral remote sensing for shallow waters. 1. A semi-analytical model. Applied Optics, 37, 6329-6338.

Lee, Z., K. L. Carder, C. D. Mobley, R. G. Steward, J. S. Patch. 1999. Hyperspectral remote sensing for shallow waters. 2. Deriving bottom depths and water properties by optimization. Applied Optics, 38, 3831-3843.

Lee, Z., K. L. Carder, R. A. Arnone. 2002. Deriving inherent optical properties from water color: a multiband quasi-analytical algorithm for optically deep waters. Applied Optics, 41, 5755-5772. Applied Optics 50-Year Most Influential Paper (Algorithm of the updated version adopted by NASA, NOAA, ESA, and other space agencies).

 Lee, Z., K.P. Du, R. Arnone. 2005. A model for the diffuse attenuation coefficient of downwelling irradiance. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 110, C02016.

Lee, Z., R. Arnone, C. Hu, P. J. Werdell, and B. Lubac. 2010. Uncertainties of optical parameters and their propagations in an analytical ocean color inversion algorithm. Applied Optics, 49(3), 369-381.

Hu, C., Z. Lee, B. Franz. 2012. Chlorophyll algorithms for oligotrophic oceans: A novel approach based on three‐band reflectance difference. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 117, C01011 (algorithm adopted by NASA, NOAA, ESA, and other space agencies).

Lee, Z., N. Pahlevan, Y. Ahn, S. Greb, and D. O’Donnell. 2013. Robust approach to directly measuring water-leaving radiance in the field. Applied Optics, 52(8), 1693-1701. Highlighted in Spotlight on Optics, OSA Publishing.

Werdell, P. J., B. A. Franz, S. W. Bailey, G. C. Feldman, E. Boss, V. E. Brando, M. Dowell, T. Hirata, S. J. Lavender, Z. Lee, H. Loisel, S. Maritorena, F. Mélin, T. S. Moore, T. J. Smyth, D. Antoine, E. Devred, O. H. F. d’Andon and A. Mangin. 2013. Generalized ocean color inversion model for retrieving marine inherent optical properties. Applied Optics, 52, 2019-2037. (Algorithm adopted by NASA)

Lee, Z., J. Wei, K. Voss, M. Lewis, A. Bricaud, Y. Huot. 2015. Hyperspectral absorption coefficient of “pure” seawater in the range of 350–550 nm inverted from remote sensing reflectance. Applied Optics, 54, 546-558.

Lee, Z., Shang, S., C. Hu, K. Du, A. Weidemann, W. Hou, J. Lin, G. Lin. 2015. Secchi disk depth: A new theory and mechanistic model for underwater visibility. Remote Sensing of Environment, 169, 139-149.

Wei, J., Z. Lee, S. Shang. 2016. A system to measure the data quality of spectral remote sensing reflectance of aquatic environments. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 121, 8189–8207. Highlighted by the IOCCG Bulletin.

Lee, Z., Shang, S., K. Du, J. Wei. 2018. Resolving the long-standing puzzles about the observed Secchi depth relationships. Limnology & Oceanography, 63: 2321-2336.

Lee, Z., S. Shang, Y. Wang, J. Wei, J. Ishizaka. 2019. Nature of optical products inverted semi-analytically from remote sensing reflectance of stratified waters. Limnology & Oceanography, 65(2) 387-400.

Lee, Z., T. Wang, L. Zhao, D. Wang, X. Ye, S. Shang, X. Yu. 2024. Cross-Satellite Atmospheric Correction for Consistent Remote Sensing Reflectance from Multiple Ocean Color Satellites: Concept and Demonstrations. Journal of Remote Sensing, 4, Article ID 0302.

Li, X., Z. Lee, D. Wang, S. Shang, 2025, Atmospheric correction of coastal waters based on satellite-AERONET-OC matchups via neural networks, Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.

学术任职

Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Associate Editor

Journal of Remote Sensing, Associate Editor