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New Research Project Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Major Research Plan

Dr. Bo Wu has just received funding (RMB800,000) for "Synergistic Computation of Multi-source Remote Sensing Data" from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Major Research Plan. This is a 3 year project from 01/2014 to 12/2016.

 

Prof. Kaichang Di gave a seminar about mapping and localization techniques for Chang'E-3 lunar rover at LSGI

Prof. Kaichang Di with the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a seminar about the mapping and localization techniques for teleoperation of Chang'E-3 lunar rover at the the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on December 6, 2013. Chang’E-3 probe, including a lunar lander and a rover, has been successfully launched and landed on the Moon on December 14, 2013. Mapping and localization techniques play important roles in terrain perception, hazard avoidance, and route planning to support teleoperations of the rover Yutu. Prof. Di's talk presents some of the mapping and localization techniques and their applications in the Chang’E-3 mission, attracted more than 50 audience from different departments of the University.

 

Congratulations to GUO Jian

Congratulations to GUO Jian who successfully presented and defended her PhD dissertation and will be receiving her PhD degree in early 2014.  GUO's dissertation is entitled "Integration of Multi-Source Lunar Orbiter Camera Imagery and Laser Altimeter Data for Precision Lunar Topographic Modeling".

 

2013 International Symposium on Planetary Sciences

The 2013 International Symposium on Planetary Sciences was held at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences on 1-4 July 2013 in Shanghai, China. This Symposium attracted more than 100 international participants to present and discuss the latest results on planetary science and exploration. Topics in the Symposium include planetary geodesy, navigation, remote sensing, atmosphere, ionosphere physics, magnetic and gravity field, geomorphology, geophysics, geology, petrology, geochemistry, interior physics, astrobiology, etc.

 

Dr. Bo Wu gave a presentation about "Integration of Multi-source Lunar Topographic Data Sets for Precision Lunar Topographic Modeling and Analysis" in the Symposium.

 

8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality

The 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality was successfully held in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from May 30 - June 1, 2013. This Symposium attracted more than 100 participants and provided an interdisciplinary forum for leading scientists, engineers, educators, and representatives from public authorities to present their latest research developments and share their experience in GIS and spatial data quality.

 

This Symposium is organized by the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Construction and Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This Symposium is jointly organized by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) WG II/1, WG II/2, WG II/4, WG II/6, ICWG II/IV and School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering and Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) of Wuhan University.

 

Three prominent international scientists have been invited to deliver keynote speeches in the Symposium. They include Dr. Paul Cheung, the Former Director of United Nations Statistics Division; Prof. Brian Lees, University of New South Wales: Canberra, Australia, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Geographical Information Science; and Professor Alfred Stein, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Editor-in-Chief of Spatial Statistics. The plenary speeches and group discussions of the Symposium are grouped under eight sub-themes.

 

The Proceeding of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality was edited by Bo Wu, Eric Guilbert, and John Shi and is now available in the ISPRS Archives.

 

Congratulations to GAO Yang

Congratulations to GAO Yang who will be receiving his MPhil degree during PolyU's 19th Congregation, which will be held in October/November 2013.  Gao's MPhil dissertation is entitled "Investigation and Remediation of False Topographic Perception Phenomena Observed on Lunar Orbital Imagery".

 

Dr. Bo Wu Received the Excellence in Research Award 2011/2012

Dr. Bo Wu, an Assistant Professor of The Department of Land Surveying and GeoInformatics (LSGI), is the recipient of the Department's Excellence in Research Award for the Year 2011/2012.

 

In the past three years, Dr. Wu has won two highly competitive Hong Kong wide Research Grants Council (RGC) grants. He is also an author of 11 research articles published in top-ranking international journals. Dr. Wu's recent innovative works in lunar topographic mapping and analysis have been published by the prestigious international journals “Earth and Planetary Science Letters”, “Planetary and Space Science”, and “IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing”.

 

The 2012 ISPRS XXII Congress

The once-every-four-years congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) was held in Melbourne, Australia from August 25 to September 1,  2012. This ISPRS XXII Congress attracted 2,000 visitors from across the world and included over 700 presentations from the many special and themed sessions, as well as a thorough technical program. The opening ceremony even included a few 3 m tall bouncing kangaroos – actually people in suits on bouncy stilts – as well as some real live snakes and crocodiles – a definite highlight for some of the international guests.

 

Dr. Bo Wu chaired two technical sessions and made two presentations in the congress period. One presentation is about how geovisualization and analytics can contribute to the modeling and analysis of light pollution in metropolitan areas. The other is about a dense and reliable image matching method based on self-adaptive triangulations, which summarizes the research and developments regarding this topic in the past several years. Ph.D student Jian Guo made a presentation about co-registration of lunar topographic models derived from multiple sources based on least squares matching in the technical session of Planetary Mapping.

 

The next ISPRS Congress will run from the12th to the 19th July, 2016, in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

Visit of VGE Group from Wuhan University

A group from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University visited LSGI on June 14, 2012. This group belongs to a team working on virtual geographic environment (VGE) leading by Prof. Qing Zhu of Wuhan University. Dr. Bo Wu warmly received the visitors and exchanged views with them on research collaborations.

 

The VGE group in Wuhan University is famous for its contributions in the research and developments in 3D GIS and virtual geographic environments.

 

Internet and Landscapes

The Internet has become a ubiquitous platform for communicating and disseminating geographic information. There are a plethora of online resources and tools available to share information and develop a better understanding of both our natural and built landscapes. With the recent advent of web 2.0 there has been a rapid expansion in the number of online tools and technologies for which we can learn, share and address issues facing society such as climate change, food security and human well-being. Recently, a special issue "Internet and Landscapes" of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) has been published. This special issue includes seven papers which address new research developments in online geographies and tools for landscape function, natural resource management, and geospatial information services.

 

Click here to see a list of papers that have been published in this special issue.

 

Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring

More than 200 scientists, engineers, educators, and representatives from public authorities attended the Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring from November 2  to 4, 2011 in the Harbour Grand Kowloon Hotel in Hong Kong.

 

This Symposium is organized by the Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Working Group 6.1 "Deformation Measurement and Analysis", the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)  Sub-Commission 4.2 "Applications of Geodesy in Engineering", and the IAG Sub-Commission 4.4 "Applications of Satellite & Airborne Imaging Systems". It combines the 14th FIG Symposium on Deformation Measurement and Analysis, the 5th IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering, and the 2nd International Workshop on Spatial Information Technologies for Monitoring the Deformation of Large-Scale Man-made Linear Features.

 

More than 150 speeches and presentations were delivered during these three days symposium. Experts from the international community shared the latest research results and experiences in deformation measurement, analysis and interpretation. Industry companies including Leica, Trimble, SOKKIA, and Geokon exhibited the latest instruments and software systems during the symposium period. Dr. Bo Wu delivered a presentation and chaired a session in the Symposium.

 

Details about the Symposium can be found in its official website.

 

PolyU plays host to the 7th Annual Seminar on Spatial Information Science and Technology

More than 100 experts in spatial information science and technology from Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland gathered at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) on 30 September to participate in the 7th Annual Seminar on Spatial Information Science and Technology.

 

Organized by the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of PolyU, this annual seminar has brought together scientists, engineers and researchers from the government and industry to discuss the latest advances in spatial information science and technology.

 

This one-day seminar was officially opened by Professor Ding Xiaoli, Head of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of PolyU, and Mr Wong Chung-hang, Deputy Director of Lands Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, on the PolyU campus.

 

Addressing the opening ceremony, Professor Ding said, "Spatial information science and technology is regarded as one of the most important emerging and evolving fields, which has improved and will further improve our lives. We are privileged to organize this annual seminar to provide a valuable platform for researchers and professionals in Hong Kong and the neighbouring regions to present their latest findings and exchange views."

 

Fourteen speakers have been invited to share their insights with the participants. The topics of the seminar were grouped under three themes: (1) Geospatial Information System (GIS) applications in digital city, transportation, weather forecasting and tree management; (2) Remote sensing techniques for deformation monitoring, earthquake data analysis and urban heat island analysis; (3) Applications and new advances in photogrammetric techniques for agriculture lot boundary determination, mobile mapping and lunar mapping.

 

For more details, please visit the official website of the event.

 

Persistent Problems in Geographic Visualization, ICC2011 Workshop on July 2nd 2011, Paris
Organized by ISPRS WG II/6 Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality  in collaboration with ICA commission on GeoVisualization, a one-day workshop will be held during the ICC2011 on July 2nd 2011, Paris. We seek to identify and communicate about persisting research challenges in geographic visualization and geo-visual analytics amongst peers. The objective is to determine ongoing research challenges and discuss progress towards addressing these in a forum that will provide instant feedback from peers, and through which collaborators for future work can be identified. Details can be found on the website of ISPRS WG II/6.

 

PolyU co-hosts Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science

 

More than 300 leading experts in geospatial information science (GIS) from over 20 countries and regions are gathering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from 26 to 28 May to participate in the Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science.

 

Co-organised by three commissions of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and International Geographical Union (IGU), including ISPRS Commission II on Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science, IGU Commission on Geographic Information Science, and IGU Commission on Modelling Geographical Systems, the three-day Conference is jointly hosted by PolyU, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has brought together the most renowned scientists in the GIS community to discuss the latest advances in GIS, which is regarded as one of the three most important emerging and evolving fields, together with biotechnology and nanotechnology.

 

The Conference was officially opened today (26 May) by Professor Timothy W. Tong, PolyU President; and Mr Leung Cheuk-fai, Deputy Director of Planning, Planning Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, on PolyU campus. Addressing the ceremony, Professor Tong said, “The Conference provides an inter-disciplinary platform for leading researchers and professionals to present their latest findings in and exchange views on data handling and modelling of geospatial data. We are privileged to host this top level scientific international conference and look forward to seeing further advancements in geospatial information technology and how it could further improve our lives.”

 

Four prominent international and local scientists have been invited to deliver keynote speeches for the Conference. They include Professor Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, US; Professor Deren Li, Wuhan University, China; Professor Daniel Griffith, University of Texas at Dallas, US; and Professor Anthony G.O. Yeh, The University of Hong Kong. The plenary speeches and group discussions of the Conference are grouped under fifteen sub-themes, namely Spatial Modelling, Space and Time, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Data Mining, Uncertainty Modelling, Spatial Database, Advances in Cartography, Location-Based Services, Mobile Data Models, Spatial Data Processing Algorithms, Web GIS, Geo-Visualization, Spatial information for Environmental Studies, Spatial Information for Land Use Studies, Application of GIS and Remote Sensing, and Technology Innovations from Industry.

 

Major companies in GIS industry including ESRI, Leica Geosystems Ltd., Pitney Bowes Business Insight (MapInfo) and Navia Info Corporation Limited, and South Survey & Mapping Instrument Co. Ltd. exhibite the latest instruments and software systems during the conference period, and these indicate the latest development in GIS industry.

 

(For more details and programme of the Conference, please visit its official website: http://isgis.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/)

 

Dr. Bo Wu won the Duane C. Brown Senior Award (Photogrammetry)

 

Dr. Bo Wu has been selected to be the recipient of the Duane C. Brown Senior Award in 2009. The Duane C. Brown Award was established to “promote and stimulate scientific activity in photogrammetry” at The Ohio State University. Annually, an award is made to a person “who has most successfully forwarded the cause of photogrammetry and strengthened the reputation of the Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying in the field of photogrammetry. Read the information about Duane C. Brown Award by clicking here.

 

The International Symposium on Lunar Science

 

The International Symposium on Lunar Science was held at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) on March 25-26, 2010. The keynote speakers at the symposium were the directors of the recent Chinese, Japanese and Indian lunar missions who presented the results obtained by their spacecrafts. Ouyan Ziyuan, the principal scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP, also known as Chang’e program), presented the results from the spacecraft Chang’E-1 (CE-1); Professor Dr. Manabu Kato of Japan’s Department of Planetary Science for the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS/JAXA) presented a mission overview and results of the KAGUYA lunar orbiter launched in 2007, for which he was responsible for specifics systems on the craft; and Dr. J.N. Goswami, the Principal Scientist of the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission gave a brief introduction to the Indian space program before presenting the achievements of his nation’s lunar exploration orbiter. The conference was also attended by invited speakers and participants from America, Japan, Russia, France, Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Dr. Bo Wu has been invited to give a presentation at the symposium. Read the story in the latest issue of Macau Daily Times.

 

 

 


Last updated: January 2011.