Announcement

Time and Place: 10：40-12：00 am, Sept. 18, 2014. A1014, JiuZhang Building, the National Space Science Center.

Lecture： Developing SAR Applications for Forest Mapping, Monitoring and REDD+ Reporting

Lecturer:  Anthony Milne AO, from School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia

More Information:Tony Milne is the Director of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI), Radar Research and Applications Facility. He is also Visiting Professor of Geography and Remote Sensing in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (2008-09). In 2012 he was made an ‘Officer in the Order of Australia’ by the Australian Government, for services to radar related remote sensing throughout Australia and Asia. He has been a Principal Investigator in international research programs including: the NASA SIR-B and SIR-C radar missions, AIRSAR (USA); ERS-1 and ERS-2, ENVISAT(ESA); JERS-1, ALOS PALSAR (Japan) and MOMs (Germany) and Co-Chairman of three NASA AIRSAR Missions to Australia, South East Asia and the Pacific between 1994 and 2000 involving some18 countries. He is currently a member of the Science Team for the Japanese Space Agency’s ALOS Kyoto and Carbon Initiative Research Program and was a Science Advisor to the Council of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2004-2008.