From Dec 3rd to 4th, 2022, an international conference, Advanced Urban Remote Sensing Workshop (AURSW), was successfully held at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). The workshop was co-chaired by Professor Peng GONG, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Development) of HKU, and Professor Qihao WENG, Chair Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The workshop demonstrated the state of the art of urban remote sensing techniques, methods, applications, and its implication for sustainable development.
Ir Professor Christopher Chao, Vice President (Research and Innovation) of PolyU, attended the workshop and gave an opening speech on behalf of PolyU.
As conference co-chair, Prof. Weng Qihao, a Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence at Dept of LSGI, and Director of JC STEM Lab of Earth Observations at PolyU was invited to give a keynote lecture on “Three Decades of Urban RemoteSensing in Perspective”. Prof. Weng also introduced to the audience the newly founded IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Hong Kong Chapter, in which he serves as the Chair. Researchers and students from PolyU, HKU, CUHK, CityU, HKBU and HKUST and other organizations have joined this chapter.
This workshop aims to introduce the status, development, advances, opportunities, and challenges in urban remote sensing and establish a platform for high-level exchange between academics, industrials, professionals, and practitioners for participants engaged in the community of urban remote sensing and relevant disciplines. And The organization committee, co-chaired by Dr Hongsheng ZHANG from HKU, and Professor Jun LI from China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), is grateful for the support from all participants and the supporting organizations, including the Urban Systems Institute (USI), Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality (ICCN), HKU, the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) and the Research Institute of Land and Space (RILS), PolyU, the IEEE GRSS Guangzhou Chapter, and The International Society for Urban Informatics.
For more information about the event, please visit: https://www.geog.hku.hk/aursw