At the invitation of Prof. Lu Le from College of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Educations), professor Wang Cheng from Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, will make an academic lecture. Welcome!

Title: Key Technologies and Applications of Lidar Remote Sensing

Time: on Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at 15:30

Site: at Lecture room 502, Qilian Tang, Lanzhou University.

Lecturer profile

Wang Cheng, born in 1975, and is a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a doctoral tutor, a selected candidate for the "One-hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the China National Committee of the International Institute of Digital Earth, and the Chairman of the Lidar Professional Committee.

Prof. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg in France in 2005 and conducted postdoctoral research at Idaho State University in the United States from 2007 to 2009. He took charge of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National 973 Program, a special project for the development of some major instruments of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a key project of the International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He developed a widely used software named “magic cube of point-cloud” for lidar data processing and application. He initiated the Chinese Committee of International Society for Digital Earth, an international lidar academic organization, and the Chinese Conference in Lidar. So far, he has published more than 100 academic papers, including more than 60 SCI papers.