The International GEO-Innovation Center recently concluded the Third International Quantitative Remote Sensing Summer School, which ran from July 9 to July 17, 2024. 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. This year, the program included 23 English talks by speakers from the US, China, as well as Europe and Australia 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 successful educational activity run by the Center. This year’s lecture series was very well received, with 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 from a total of 80 countries from Europe, Asia, and Africa, registered to tune in to the talks. We look forward to continuing this partnership and running a successful summer school with our collaborators in the future.