Dr. Chen Fulong, research associate of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, has won ShunjiMurai Award—the Best Paper Award of the annual conference of Asian Association on Remote Sensing with his research paper ‘Surface Deformation Monitoring Along Qinghai-Tibet Railway Using Small Baseline SAR Interferometry, A Case Study of Beiluhe Section, Qinghai, China’.

Dr. Chen’s paper presents a new method for monitoring the stability of the roadbed in the frozen ground zone of the depopulated region, which could be a valuable reference for further studies on the monitoring of deformation of large scale man-made linear features such as high-speed railway and highway networks.