Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

Geoinformation and Earth Sciences 21 T he major area ‘Geoinformation and Earth Sciences’ is spearheaded by the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) at CUHK — the only Hong Kong base of the National Remote Sensing Centre of China, under the State Ministry of Science and Technology. The key initiative of ISEIS is the establishment of a Laboratory for Tropical Monsoon Environmental Remote Sensing, a groundbreaking, state-of-the-art, comprehensive laboratory in geoinformation and earth science. The other sub-divisions of the centre are located in two other universities — Peking University and Wuhan University, as well as a few state ministries.