中国定量遥感始于20世纪80年代，在过去10多年得到了空前的发展。在2012年左右中国首次超越美国成为世界上在英文遥感刊物上发表文章最多的国家，特别是近几年文章数已经是美国的两倍左右。尽管在遥感数据的定量反演方法等研究方面，中国已经处于世界的前沿，是定量遥感的大国，但总体上尚不是定量遥感强国，在绝大多数的分支领域上还没有处于世界引领的地位。本文在回顾世界和中国定量遥感发展历史的基础上，从遥感数据获取与处理，前向辐射传输建模，变量反演，高级产品生产，地面观测，遥感云平台建设，遥感教育和遥感应用等8个方面，简要地讨论了中国定量遥感发展的一些问题和挑战，并提出了一些期望与初步建议。

Quantitative remote sensing in China began in the 1980s and has achieved unprecedentedly rapid development in the past decade. Around 2012, China surpassed the United States for the first time and became the country with the most articles of remote sensing published in English in the world. Especially in recent years, the number of articles has been about twice that of the United States. Although China has been at the forefront of the world in the research on inversion methodology and is a large country in quantitative remote sensing, it is not sufficiently powerful on the whole to be in the leading position in the world in most sub-fields. After reviewing the development history of quantitative remote sensing in the world and China, this paper briefly discusses some problems and challenges of quantitative remote sensing in China from eight aspects: data acquisition and pre-processing, forward radiative transfer modeling, inversion, high-level product production, ground observation, cloud platform construction, education and application, Some expectations and preliminary suggestions are also put forward.