The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior have recently entered into a protocol on scientific and technical cooperation in earth sciences, making CUHK the first Asian university that reaches such a broad-based research agreement with USGS. CUHK Vice-Chancellor Prof. Lawrence J. Lau and USGS Associate Director for Geography Dr. Bryant Cramer officiated at the signing ceremony in the presence of Mr. Martin Murphy, Economic/Political Section Chief of the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, and key members of CUHK, ISEIS and USGS...
Prof. Lin Hui, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), was recently awarded the Outstanding Contribution Prize at The Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) annual conference held in Beijing. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the AARS presented awards to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the development of remote sensing in Asia. Other awardees included the late academician Prof. Chen Shupeng, who was named the ‘founder of remote sensing science in China’, Academician Tong Qingxi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Prof. Chen Weijiang, Advisor of the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC). Prof. Lin Hui is the first Hong Kong scholar honored with this award...
Dr. JIANG Liming, postdoctoral research fellow of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) recently received the Best Youth Oral Presentation Award at the 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE6) in Beijing...
Miss ZHAO Qing and Mr. WU Lei, PhD students of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received the best student paper award from the International Conference GeoInformatics 2009 in Washington DC, USA on 13 August...
香港中文大學（中大）太空與地球信息科學研究所（太空所）與中國資源衛星應用中心（資源衛星中心）於日前在北京簽署合作協議，聯合成立雷達遙感應用研究中心，以優化國產雷達衛星。中大太空所所長林琿教授同時獲邀擔任資源衛星中心的專家委員會成員。簽署及專家聘任儀式吸引了三百多名嘉賓出席，包括國家航天局孫來燕局長、國家發改委及國家財政部相關司局的領導，以及出席中國陸地觀測衛星第三屆用戶大會的中外專家學者...
The first conference on spatially integrated humanities and social sciences was organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Peking University and National Taiwan University from 16 to 17 March on CUHK campus. The opening ceremony was officiated by Prof. Lin Hui, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK, Prof. Tang Xiaofeng, Peking University, and Prof. Sun Chih-Hong, National Taiwan University in Hong Kong, and Prof. Lay Jinn-Guey, National Taiwan University in Taiwan simultaneously by means of video conference. At the opening ceremony, Prof. Kenneth Young, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK addressed a welcoming speech and Prof. Wang Fahui, Louisiana State University, USA delivered a keynote speech titled “Why Humanities and Social Sciences need GIS?...