國家航天局局長孫來燕博士今天在香港中文大學邵逸夫堂主持講座，題目為「中國航天事業的回顧與展望」。孫博士見解精闢，演說生動，吸引千多嘉賓包括中大師生及中學同學蒞臨參加，場面熱鬧...
香港中文大學今天於校園內舉行「霍英東遙感科學館」奠基典禮。中國人民政治協商會議全國委員會副主席董建華大紫荊勳賢、中央人民政府駐香港特別行政區聯絡辦公室主任高祀仁先生、中華人民共和國外交部駐香港特別行政區特派員公署呂新華先生、霍英東基金會董事霍震寰先生、中國科學院副秘書長郭華東教授及中大校長劉遵義教授親臨主禮...
珠江三角洲地區近二十餘年來，經歷了舉世矚目的快速的城市化過程。城市擴展、人口劇增以及工業企業快速增長，使到這一地區面臨著一系列的生態環境和地質環境問題，包括水資源狀況惡化、土地資源退化、不透水層增加與城市熱島效應、洪澇災害、鹹潮、以及地面沉降等，已經成為該地區可持續發展的制約因素。其中，城市不透水層與地面沉降問題日益突出...
Hong Kong is a city surrounded by waters. Water quality around Hong Kong affects its economic development and living quality. Oil sea pollution is a matter of great concern. In fact, about 90% of crude oil and oil products are transported across the globe by oil-tankers off-share platforms and most of the refineries are located along coasts. All these unavoidably generate sea pollution. Annually, 48% of the oil pollution in the oceans is caused by fuels and 29% by crude oil both due to chronic events such as illegal tank cleaning or bilge pumping. Tanker accidents contribute to only 5% of all pollution spilled into the sea. In any case, the amount of oil spilled annually worldwide is estimated at a level greater than 4.5 millions tons, equivalent to one full-tanker disaster every week...
Prof. Yuanzhi Zhang has become the new director of the Yuen Yuen Satellite Remote Sensing Research Centre since December 2006. He was also appointed as the head of the Graduation Division at the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) in February 2007. Prof. Zhang graduated from Changchun College of Geology (now as Jilin University) in 1986. He received his Master of Science in Remote Sensing and Cartography from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1991, Postgraduate Diploma in Remote Sensing and Geological Survey from International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands in 1997, Doctor of Science in Remote Sensing and GIS from Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)...