The Digital Belt and Road Science Plan was made public at the opening ceremony of the Second Conference of the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR 2017) and the Third International Conference on Remote Sensing Applications in Tropical and Subtropical Areas (RSATSA 2017) held recently at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The conferences were co-organised by the DBAR Programme and CUHK, and hosted by the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS), CUHK....
The fifth phase of the internship programme jointly organised by the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific of United Nations (UNESCAP), was concluded recently. Participating in this phase of the programme were four ISEIS students studying Master of Science. They are Ding Zhang, Qianjing Yuan, Xiaoqi Fang and Di Wu. They have worked at the UNESCAP office in Bangkok, Thailand for three months. Their main duties were....
The cryospheric remote sensing team led by Prof. Lin Hui, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), recently conducted the world’s first large scale glacier mass balance survey in the western part of ‘High Mountains Asia’, including the Tibetan Plateau, the West Kunlun, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush and Pamir. This research helps scientists understand more about the ‘Karakoram anomaly’, and provides essential data for glaciology research and the prevention of glacier-related hazards. The research article has been published online in Scientific Reports....
After a landslide occurred above Xinmo village in Maoxian, Sichuan on 24 June 2017, the InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) team led by Prof. Lin Hui, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), downloaded the historical satellite imagery of the landslide area. Based on analysis of the data from the Sentinel-1 satellite of the European Space Agency from October 2014 to June 2017, it was found that the upper part of the landslide had previously had a directional movement. In addition, the time-series deformation had a strong seasonal trend, which was probably caused by the local glacial seasonal changes...
Prof. LIN Hui received the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award 2017 from The American Association of Geographers in its Annual Meeting held in Boston in early April，in recognition of his outstanding performance and important contribution in geographical research and teaching (http://www.aag.org/cs/awards/miller). Prof. Lin is the first recipient of this distinguished award from universities and research institutes in Asia.
Prof. LIN Hui has recently been awarded the Research Mentorship Award 2016 by the Faculty of Social Science in recognition of his outstanding performance and accomplishments in postgraduate supervision. He received congratulations from some of his current and former postgraduate students in the Faculty's Appreciation Achievement Award Celebration ceremony held on 18 March 2017.
The Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) jointly hosted the International Workshop on InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) Technologies for Urban Infrastructural Health Diagnosis recently. In the workshop, the most innovative research on InSAR technologies for urban infrastructural health diagnosis was presented and the key challenges were discussed. Prof. Hui Lin, Director of CUHK ISEIS and Prof. Richard Bamler, Director of the Remote Sensing Technology Institute, DLR co-chaired the workshop attended by nearly one hundred scholars and research students from mainland China, Germany, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka......
StreeTalk, a team formed by students from the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has won a Seed Award in the Shanghai Open Data Apps (SODA) Game 2016. Members of the team include ZHANG Fan, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. LIN Hui at CUHK ISEIS, and LIU Liu and ZHOU Bolei, both PhD candidates at MIT......