Program:

Day 1 (28 Oct 2010, Thursday)
08:30 – 09:00	Registration Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Opening Session Co-chair: H Lin; Y Zhang Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
09:00 – 09:10	Opening Speech by Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
09:10 – 09:20	Opening Speech by Dr. Cao Jianlin, Vice-Minister, The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
09:20 – 09:28	Opening Remarks for GCEAP series meetings by Prof. Longsang Chiu, Gorge Mason University
09:28 – 09:35	Calling for more collaboration of coastal studies by Prof. Hui Lin, the director of ISEIS
09:35 – 09:40	Present souvenirs to sponsors
09:40– 09:50	Group Photo Taking
Session 1: Air-sea interaction and landfall storms Co-chairs: L Chiu; W Alpers Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
09:50 – 10:20	Keynote Speech Management for relevant remote sensing of temperate to tropical aquatic ecosystems in Australia Dr. Arnold DEKKER (CSIRO Land & Water)
10:20 – 10:50	Keynote Speech NOAA coral reef watch program from satellite observations Dr. Alan E STRONG (NOAA/NESDIS)
10:50 – 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 – 11:20	Simulation of heavy rainfall event over Visakhapatnam during northeast monsoon season Sai R.RAO, Bhanu Kumar O.S.R.U. (Andhra University)
11:20 – 11:35	Winter monsoon surges over the South China Sea studied by multi-sensor satellite and weather radar data and a numerical model Werner ALPERS (Institute of Oceanography, Centre for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg)
11:35 – 11:50	Enhanced primary production in the oligotrophic South China Sea by eddy injection in spring I-I LIN, Chun-Chi LIEN, et al. (National Taiwan University)
11:50 – 12:05	Wind/Stress distribution over temperature front and in storms W. Timothy LIU, Xiaosu XIE (California Institute of Techenology)
12:05 – 12:20	Spatial and temporal variations of RSP in Hong Kong: cross-boundary and local effects Longsang CHIU (George Mason University), Raymond Kwok-cheung LOK (Transport Department, HKSAR)
12:20 – 12:40	Session Discussion
12:40 – 14:00	Lunch Venue: Chung Chi College Staff Club
Session 2
	A: Algorithms and methods Co-chair: Chuanmin HU; A Strong Venue: Room 305, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK	B: Aquatic ecosystems feedback to and interactions with global climate change /Climate and anthropogenic influence on coastal/inland water quality and adjacent ecosystems (including coral reefs) Co-chair: Arnold Dekker; Ronghua Ma Venue: Room 303, Fok Ying Tung Remote Sensing Science Building, CUHK
14:00 – 14:30	Keynote Speech A remote sensing view of aquatic hazards in East China and the US Gulf Coast Dr. Chuanmin HU (University of South Florida)	Keynote Speech Global observations of intense surface plankton blooms and floating vegetation using MERIS MCI Dr. Jim GOWER (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
14:30 – 14:45	Study on the correction algorithm for the apparent spectrum from the tank Minwei ZHANG (Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences)	Analysis of the time-series reflective spectrum characteristics of Lake Tai Cailan GONG, Ying ZHOU, Qiu YIN et al. (Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
14:45 – 15:00	Validation of the three-band chlorophyll-a inversion model in turbid water: the case of Taihu Lake, China Yuchun WEI (Nanjing Normal University)	The correlation research between total phosphor concentration of aquaculture water and measured remote sensing reflectivity Yinchi MA, Wen DING (Beijing Fisheries Research Institute)
15:00 – 15:15	Estimating NPSS concentration in Taihu Lake using spectral decomposition algorithm Chaoping LU, Heng LU (Nanjing Normal University)	Preliminary assessment of coastal marine eutrophication by remote sensing Genki TERAUCHI, Ryo TSUJIMOTO (Nagasaki University), Joji ISHIZAKA (Nagoya University)
15:15 – 15:30	Estimation of total suspended matter concentration based on semi-analysis algorithm in inland turbid waters Kun SHI (Nanjing Normal University)	Coral mapping in Tung Ping Chau of the eastern Hong Kong using high resolution satellite SPOT images Wing Kee HUEN, Yuanzhi ZHANG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
15:30 – 15:45	Estimating of backscattering rate in Lake Chaohu based on bio-optical model Zhonghua LIU, Yunmei LI (Nanjing Normal University)	Satellite monitoring of massive green macroalgae bloom (GMB): imaging ability comparison of multi-source data and drifting velocity estimation Tingwei CUI, Jie ZHANG, li-e SUN et al. (First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration)
15:45 – 16:00	An analytical method for retrieving total suspended matter and chlorophyll-a in highly turbid inland waters - taking Lake Taihu as an example Junsheng LI, Bing ZHANG, Qian SHEN (Center for earth observation and digital earth, CAS)	Monitoring total suspended sediment of Poyang Lake using HJ-1A/B CCD imagery Zhifeng YU, Xiaoling CHEN, Liqiao TIAN et al. (Wuhan University)
16:00 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:30	Monitoring spatial and temporal variability of suspended sediment in Indus River by means of remotely sensed data Asif BHATTI, Seigo NASU (Kochi University of Technology)	Comparison of Dimensionless Wave Parameters, Significant Wave Height, Wave Steepness and Wave Age from Satellite Scatterometer Data and Ocean Buoys in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean Jie GUO(Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research ,CAS), Yijun HE (Qingdao Institute of Oceanology, CAS)
16:30 – 16:45	Retrieval of heavy metal concentration from remote sensing data Chuqun CHEN (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS)	Remote sensing of pico-phytoplankton distributions in the northern South China Sea Xiaoju PAN, George WONG, Tung-Yuan HO, et al. (RCEC, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
16:45 – 17:00	An ideal testing for remote sensing applications in case 2 waters: Taihu Lake, China Ronghua MA (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS)	Sea level affecting marshes model and remotely sensed and geo-spatial datasets for an area of large spatial extent Mingsheng LIAO, Yanan JIANG, Wei GAO et al. (Wuhan University)
17:00 – 17:15	Remote estimation of spring phytoplankton pigments concentrations in highly turbid waters Hongtao DUAN (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS), Ronghua MA, Yuanzhi ZHANG	Session Discussion
17:15 – 17:30	Session Discussion
18:00	Welcome Banquet Venue : Star Seafood Floating Restaurant, 22-27 Tai Chung Kiu Road, Shatin, HK Telephone: 2635 3788