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Prof. Jianli CHEN co-authored study reveals summer meltwater storage in Greenland ice sheet

Prof. Jianli CHEN, Core Member of the RILS and Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and an international group of researchers published a study in Nature that unveils a substantial amount of meltwater being temporarily stored within the Greenland ice sheet during…

Dr James FANG shares PolyU’s research efforts for sustainable marine development in newspaper article

Dr James FANG Kar-hei, Member of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) and Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, published an article in the education section of Sing Tao Daily earlier, sharing on PolyU’s research in marine pollution monitoring technology and…

Prof. Charles WONG receives Smart Traffic Fund for research on enhancing traffic efficiency

Prof. Charles Man-sing WONG, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment and Management Committee Member of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS), has been awarded HK$5.3 million for his project titled “A study on public transport re-routing, with a healthy…

Prof. Jianli CHEN elected as the AGU Fellow

Prof. Jianli CHEN, Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and core member of RILS, has been elected as an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow. Prior to joining PolyU under the Strategic Hiring Scheme in 2022, Prof. CHEN dedicated 28 years of his academic career to…

Research by ADoRILS, Prof. Qihao WENG, idenifies effective heat indices for detecting dangerous outdoor conditions

We are delighted to announce that the research team led by Prof. Qihao WENG, Associate Director of RILS and Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), has published a groundbreaking study. This research addresses the need for…

Sr Prof. Charles WONG Man-sing appointed as Member of Energy Advisory Committee of the Environment and Ecology Bureau by the HKSAR government

Sr Prof. Charles WONG Man-sing, Management Committee Member of RILS and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment, was appointed as a Member of the Energy Advisory Committee of the Environment and Ecology Bureau by the HKSAR government, for a term of two years…

RILS member Prof. Zhen LENG awarded ACSE’s 2024 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

Congratulations to Prof. Zhen LENG, Associate Director of the Research Centre for Resources Engineering for Carbon Neutrality (RCRE) and Member of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) and the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD), for receiving the 2024 Walter L. Huber…

RILS develops deep learning-based remote sensing image classification for land use land cover mapping in cloud-prone areas

Prof. Qihao WENG, Associate Director of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) and his team have developed an integrated time series mapping method to enhance the land use and land cover (LULC) mapping accuracy and frequency in cloud-prone areas. Other key PolyU members on…

RILS scholars win two Smart Living Partnership Awards 2023/24

Congratulations to Prof. Xiaoli DING, Director of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS), and Dr Wallace LAI, core Member of RILS, for winning the awards “Outstanding Land Subsidence Monitoring Technology by Integrating Satellite Remote Sensing & Mobile Surveying” and “Outstanding Imaging…

ADoRILS develops deep learning-based super-resolution method for building height estimation

A study by Prof. Qihao WENG, Associate Director of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS), Director of Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Geomatics, Member of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI) and Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial…