PolyU and Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster their collaboration in satellite navigation, communication, remote sensing, and payload development in August 2023. Under this collaboration, as the key involving department, LSGI can be benefited from provision of optical remote sensing and radar observation data, as well as access to near-Earth orbit satellite payload space and testing ser

5 Sep 2023

In the seventh episode of PolyU FCE Impact Case Studies 2023 video series - “Urban big data analytics for COVID-19 risk prediction and control” was published. It shared the research output - a series of extended Weighted Kernel Density Estimation (E-WKDE) models for short-term prediction of COVID-19 symptom onset risk by Prof. John SHI, Chair Professor of Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing of the Department of Land Surveying and

1 Sep 2023

PolyU and the Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster their collaboration in satellite navigation, communication, remote sensing, and payload development. Within this collaboration, HKATG will provide a variety of resources, such as conventional optical remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar observation data in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, as well as low-Earth orbit satellite me

23 Aug 2023

The Awards Presentation Ceremony of “Hong Kong/Shanghai Co-operation Data Forum cum Open Data Challenge 2023” (Open Data Challenge) was held in Shanghai on 14 August. In order to foster the advancement of Innovation and Technology (I&T) in both Hong Kong and Shanghai, this initiative aimed to inspire participants to develop applications utilizing open data. Participating teams had the opportunity to construct their project content based on four t

19 Aug 2023

The Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatic (LSGI) expresses the sincere congratulation to the amazing winning team from Ying Wa's Girl School for their incredible achievement in the Innovation for Smart City Competition 2023. The objective of competition is to recognize outstanding innovation in the smart city development. We received application by over 80 students from local secondary schools to the competition. As one of the five fina

14 Aug 2023

The First Earth Observation for Ecosystem, Infrastructure, and City (EO4EIC) Workshop, organized by the JC STEM Lab of Earth Observations and the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Geomatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, took place successfully on August 7. We are delighted to have had an audience of over 100 attendees, including academic and research staff and graduate students from the LSGI, CEE of PolyU, as well as from

10 Aug 2023

The Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics (LSGI) partnered with three Mainland universities, Tongji University, China University of Mining and Technology, and National University of Information Science and Technology, to co-organize the Summer Exchange 2023. The exchange, which took place at PolyU and other visiting locations from July 23 to July 29, 2023, provided near 100 participating students (including both undergraduate and postgra

31 Jul 2023

The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) held the Prize Presentation Ceremony at the Surveyors Learning Centre on 25 July 2023. The HKIS President, Sr Paul Wong, the Chairman of Board of Education, Sr Steven Tang and the Chairman of Research Committee, Sr Dr. Mei-yung Leung delivered inspiring speeches and presented the prizes to the award winners. In this year’s ceremony, we are proud to have 12 awardees from the Department of Land Surveying

27 Jul 2023

The Annual Conference of the Commission of Tourism Geography, Geographical Society of China (中国地理学会) was held in Chengdu, 12-14 July 2023. The conference had attracted over five hundred researchers to share their research work in eighteen sub-sessions of frontier topics related to tourism geography. We are glad to share that a PhD student, Xinyue CHEN (under the supervision of Dr. Yang XU), from Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (L

20 Jul 2023

Congratulations to the PolyU LSGI student team - Mr. LAM Yik and Mr. YU Kai Him Otto (Undergraduate students, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Construction and Environment) who won the Overall Champion of ESRI Young Scholars Award 2023! The competition of Eris Young Scholars Award 2023 aims to encourage and recognize students who can create more innovative GIS applications that lead to a better society and meet the div

19 Jul 2023