Dr. Chenghu Zhou The Chinese Academy of Science, China Dr. Chenghu Zhou is an academician of CAS and Research Professor and Deputy
Director of the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources, CAS;
he is also the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environment
Information System.He is one of IGU Vice-President and the vice-chair of the
commission on Geographical Information Science. He chairs the Environmental
Remote Sensing Division and Hydrology Commission of the Chinese Geography
Society; and Professional Committee of Chinese GIS Association. He is a member
of the expert panel of China 863 Program in marine sciences;invited honorary
commissioner of the Ministry of Land and Resources. His major research interests
include spatial and temporal data mining, geographic modeling, hydrology and
water resources and geographic information systems and remote sensing
applications. He organized and participated in some key programs and projects
such as "Remote sensing monitoring of major natural disaster events and its
operational evaluation", "Comprehensive Environmental Remote Sensing study of
Hong Kong","Multi-Resolution Land Use & Land Cover study". In the past 5
years, he was awarded with four National S&T Progress Awards (second place);
three provincial and Ministry level Science and Technology awards (first prize). |