3rd International Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School Wraps Up

Co-hosted by GEO Innovation Center and leading universities, the virtual event featured 23 talks on cutting-edge remote sensing techniques and applications.

The International GEO-Innovation Center concluded the Third International Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School, which ran from July 9 to 17. This annual summer school is co-organized by the GEO Center in collaboration with the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering at Wuhan University, the Quantitative Remote Sensing Research Center of Wuhan University, and the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong.

The virtual summer school featured talks by global experts in remote sensing. There were speakers from the US, China, as well as Europe  and Australia. This year, the program included 23 English-language talks, covering a variety of topics such as active and passive remote sensing methods, data processing, quantitative modeling techniques, satellite product development, and various applications for monitoring the Earth’s surface and ecosystems.

Faculty from the Department of Geographical Sciences, including Associate Professor Sinead Farrell, Assistant Professor Yiqun Xie, Assistant Professor Xiaopeng Song, Associate Research Professor Mehdi Hosseini, and Associate Research Professor Alexandra Tyukavina, participated as speakers.

The summer school, which is free continues to be a highly successful educational initiative.This year’s lecture series had over 950 registrations for the international sessions and more than 2,000 students participating at our collaborating institutions. Students and early career researchers not only from the participating countries but internationally, from a total of 80 countries from Europe, Asia and Africa, registered to tune in to the talks.

The GEO Center looks forward to continuing this partnership and running a thriving summer school with its collaborators in the future.

Images courtesy of GEO Center's Varada Shevade

Published on Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:56