An inter-departmental final year project accomplished by students who were undergraduates at the time from the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at PolyU won the Bronze Award at the ASMPT Technology Award 2026, held on 10 July 2026. Prior to this, the project was also recognised as the Best Project Award at the Inter-departmental Final Year Project 2025/26.

The awarded project is titled “Intelligent UAV Systems for GNSS-Based Remote Sensing on Vegetation”. Traditional ground object detection (e.g., vegetation monitoring) relies on manual surveys, costly aerial imaging or low-resolution satellite images. This work integrates Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS) onto an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform with higher flexibility, achieving an intelligent remote-sensing system for ground object monitoring.

This complex project was supervised by Prof. ZHANG Guohao, Assistant Professor from PolyU’s AAE, and co-supervised by Prof. HSU Li-Ta, Associate Professor and Limin Young Scholar in Aerospace Navigation from the same department.

The team members were Ms ZHOU Jiayi and Mr Md Sahat MAHMUD, both from AAE; Ms Sashenka GAMAGE from EEE; and Ms TAN Qing Lin from ME.

The ASMPT Technology Award, led by ASMPT Limited, is a symbol of its commitment to technological innovation in Hong Kong. This year marks the 11th ASMPT Technology Award, which aims to promote excellence in technology. It is an interdisciplinary award that invites participation from top faculties in Hong Kong and aims to recognise and reward students with extraordinary final year projects which showcase technological advancement and innovative thinking.

This year, 12 exceptional projects were nominated by the six participating universities to compete for the awards. The nominees presented their projects in 20-minute sessions, followed by a 10-minute Q&A with a panel of judges comprising ASMPT leaders, university faculty and industry experts. The judging criteria focused on technical performance, project quality, creativity, originality, applicability and practicability.