Symposium on Geoinformation and Earth Sciences: Human Habitat 11 April 2011

Program

9:30am-9:50am	Opening Ceremony
9:50am-10:00am	Group Photo Taking
10:00am-10:30am	Keynote Speech (To be confirmed) China’s Agenda on Global Change Researches By Prof. Xu Guanhua Wei Lun Research Professor of Space and Earth Sciences
10:30am-11:15am	Keynote Speech Recent Progress in Earth System Research based on Numerical Model Simulation and Experimentation By Prof. Gabriel Lau Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA
11:15am-11:45am	Tea Break
11:45am-12:30pm	Keynote Speech Aerosol-Monsoon Interaction: Challenges for Climate Change Research in Asia By Prof. William Lau Director, Laboratory for Atmospheres NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
12:30pm-2:00pm	Lunch Time
	Presentations on two strategic areas under GeoInformation and Earth Sciences:
	Session 1: Air/ Ocean/ Land Interactions
2:00pm-2:20pm	Monsoon-ocean Connection and Aerosol-cloud-precipitation Relation By Prof. Wu Renguang, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
2:20pm-2:40pm	Wind Response to Mesoscale Ocean Temperature Front and Simulation of the Pearl River Plume for Summer Period By Prof. Pan Jiayi, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
2:40pm-3:00pm	Sustainable Urban Design using Performance Based Simulation and RS By Prof. Tsou Jinyeu, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
3:00pm-3:20pm	Coastal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: Case Studies By Prof. Zhang Yuanzhi, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
3:20pm-3:40pm	Hydrologic Impacts of Human Activities and Climate Change in the Pearl River Basin By Prof. Chen Yongqin, Department of Geography and Resource Management
3:40pm-4:00pm	Recent Advances in Inverse Acoustic / Electromagnetic Obstacle Scattering By Prof. Zou Jun, Department of Mathematics
4:00pm-4:20pm	Tea Break
	Session 2: Geoinformation Technologies
4:20pm-4:40pm	A Study on Collaborative VGE to Facilitate Geo-process Modeling By Prof. Lin Hui, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
4:40pm-5:00pm	Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry: Techniques and Applications By Prof. Daniele Perissin, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
5:00pm-5:20pm	Research on the Iimpacts of Climate Change on Agroecosystem By Prof. Chen Jinsong, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
5:20pm-5:40pm	Study of Typhoon Dynamics –A Data Mining Approach By Prof. Leung Yee, Department of Geography and Resource Management
5:40pm-6:00pm	Spatial Intelligence: Advance in Geographical Information Science By Prof. Huang Bo, Department of Geography and Resource Management
6:00pm-6:15pm	Closing Remarks