The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) recently hosted the 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing Applications in Tropical and Subtropical Areas. Officiating at the opening ceremony were Prof. Tai-fai Fok, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, Prof. Guanhua Xu, former Minister at the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Mr. Nicholas W. Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. ...
A research team, led by Prof. Lin Hui, the director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has adopted the newly developed satellite remote sensing technology to monitor the safety of urban infrastructures and provide an early-warning service. This research project is jointly supported by the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) of the Hong Kong SAR Government and Hong Du (International) Development Company Ltd...
Concluding recently was the third phase of an internship programme, jointly organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) of the United Nations (UN), and the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Nine CUHK students, including Zeying Li, Chaoyang Du, Weizhen Ding, Mingfeng Liu, Junwen Dai, Hang Wei, Jingxuan Zhai, Dongmei Wang and Ran Wang, successfully completed their internship in ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand. Part of their work has been included in ESCAP’s 2015 Annual Disaster Report, Disasters Without Borders. CUHK and the names of the interns have been acknowledged...
To overcome the shortage of space, the Hong Kong government has been reclaiming lands along the seafront, which will introduce continuous ground settlement since the beginning of reclamation. The Hong Kong International Airport, 75% of which was reclaimed from the sea, is one of the largest artificial islands in the world (Jiang & Lin, 2010). It was built on two original islands in the sea, i.e., Chek Lap Kok and Lam Chau...
The inception meeting of the National Key Basic Research Programme of China titled ‘Simulations and Estimations of Interactions between Human Activities and Global Changes’ and chaired by Prof. LIN Hui, the principal scientist of the project, was held at Zijin Villa in Shenzhen recently.Professor Lin is currently the director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) and a professor of the Department of Geography and Resource Management...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received eight Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) from the Ministry of Education (MoE) in 2014, including two first-class awards and five second-class awards in Natural Sciences, as well as one first-class award in Scientific and Technological Progress, again making it the institution receiving the highest number of awards in the local tertiary sector...
