Prof. HUANG Chengquan from the department of Geography, University of Maryland, paid a visit to the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMHE) during November 1-3, 2011.

Prof. HUANG Chengquan gave a report in IMHE.(Picutue by IMHE)

He delivered a report entitled “Remote Sensing of Forest Change over Rugged Terrain: Challenges and Opportunities”, in which he made a systematic review of the problems and solutions involved in global forest remote sensing. He also elaborated on key technologies of mountain remote sensing, including data preprocessing, geometric rectification, ortho-rectification, radiometric correction, vegetation phenology, cloud and shadow removal, and change map.

During the visit, IMHE issued a certificate to Prof. HUANH to honor him as the special invited researcher of IMHE.

Prof. HUANG was engaged in the research of land cover, ecosystem monitoring, and related applications in global change and earth system studies, biological conservation, and resources management. Prior to his joining the University of Maryland in 2005, he worked at the USGS/EROS, where he prototyped algorithms for developing the circa-2001 National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001) and for developing many of the data products of the LANDFIRE project.