林琿指出，香港可利用數據分析、教育的優勢，變成「一帶一路」的一個重要支援地區。他建議各地加強合作，例如成立「紅樹林國際聯合實驗中心」。中大明年更會舉辦海上絲綢之路的對地觀察國際會議，出席國家包括越南、印度、巴基斯坦、菲律賓及馬來西亞等....
香港中文大學衛星遙感中心，是全國除武漢大學之外，主力接收高分辨率的衛星地面站，自1997年建站以來一直關注着珠三角、鄱陽湖和青藏高原的氣候變化與都市化問題。中大太空與地球信息科學研究所所長林琿透露，該所已獲香港機管局委託，利用衛星為機場設施的「健康」作掃描，時間只需一晚，若用人手檢測則要兩三星期....
Dr. Ma Peifeng, a PhD graduate of the Institute of Space and Earth Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has been awarded a 2016 AXA Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Ma is the only recipient from the greater China region this year, and also the first one from CUHK. ....
The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) recently held the International Workshop on South China Sea Coastal and Ocean Meso-scale Processes at the Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building on campus. Ocean meso-scale processes are dynamic phenomena with spatial scales from tens to several hundreds of kilometres and temporal scales of several weeks. A typical ocean meso-scale phenomenon is meso-scale eddy, an ocean current vortex with a diameter of tens to hundreds of kilometres....
A research team led by Prof. Pan Jiayi of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed a forecast system for coastal marine dynamic environments. It aims to assist the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) of the HKSAR Government in analysing the carrying capacity of the Hong Kong coastal regime, with a view to providing the local aquaculture industry with useful information. The development of the system was supported by the Hong Kong Government’s Innovation and Technology Fund...
The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has recently conducted a collaborative field work on current land use and land cover (LULC) and urban morphology in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, jointly with Indiana State University (ISU), Wuhan University (WHU) and South China Normal University (SCNU) . The project team published a research monograph entitled Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas in September 2015...
The Institute of Space and Earth Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) celebrated its 10th anniversary recently. Officiating guests were Prof. Michael HUI, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, Prof. XU Guanhua, former minister at the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST), and Prof. LI Lu, Director General of Education, Science and Technology Department, Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Over 200 ISEIS staff and students as well as guests from local and overseas institutions attended the ceremony...