On May 24th, Professor Huang Bo from the Chinese University of Hong Kong was invited to visit the IGG and made ​an academic report entitled “Spatio-temporal Intelligence - the Progress of Geographic Information Science”. The report was conducted by Researcher Wang Hansheng, the deputy director of State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics.

First, the report describes the progress of spatio-temporal information fusion in Earth Information Science, which includes spatio-temporal integration of GIS data and spectrum, space, time, and angle information fusion of RS data, etc. The multi-scale spatio-temporal RS data fusion methods are described in detail based on MODIS and Landsat RS data using sparse representation. Then, Professor Huang introduced the applications of spatio-temporal information fusion in change analysis, as well as the Urban Heat Island analysis, vegetation phenology analysis and atmospheric total suspended solids monitoring, and expounded the multi-objective optimization problem of RS and GIS spatio-temporal data analysis. Finally, the summative prospect of the development of spatio-temporal intelligence technology was discussed. Visual and detailed charts and data reflected out intricate theory in simple terms, which is conducive to the attendees. After the report, some problem about information fusion was discussed on multi-spectral, multi-scale and multi-angle RS data between the reporter, the researchers and graduate students of IGG.

Professor Huang Bo, the deputy director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science in Chinese University of Hong Kong, has achieved a series of innovative research results in spatio-temporal image fusion, spatio-temporal statistics and modeling, and space optimization, takes the editorial board of six international publications and the Journal of Remote Sensing including the most authoritative international GIS publications-IJGIS (Taylor & Francis), as well as the executive editor of Annals of GIS (Taylor & Francis). Professor Huang received the Singapore Ministerial Innovation Award for developing an intelligent management system in 2003 and the Research Fronts Award of the Chinese University of Hong Kong due to the study of spatial statistics about environmental changes in 2011.