Associate Director of RILS conferred as Fellow of the American Association of Geographers

Prof. Qihao WENG, Associate Director of RILS, Chair Professor and Global STEM Scholar of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at PolyU, has been conferred recently as Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) for his significant contributions to advancing geography.  Prof. WENG and his colleagues developed a methodology for estimating temperatures with satellite-derived measures of vegetation that is now applied widely throughout a wide range of fields.  He has also helped lead the field of remote sensing at the AAG and beyond.