Huadong Guo
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Huadong Guo was a Project Leader of over ten key programs related to Earth observation. For the past tens of years, he has been one of the Principal Investigators for Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1 (JERS-1) SAR, ERS-1/2 SAR, Radarsat-1/2, Environmental Satellite, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) programs. He is currently with the Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is also currently a Guest Professor of seven universities in China. He has authored or coauthored over 200 papers and 17 books. Prof. Guo is a member of the International SAR Working Group, the Chairman of the Association on Environment Remote Sensing of China, and the Secretary General of the International Society for Digital Earth. He is an Editorin- Chief of the International Journal of Digital Earth and a member of the CoDATA executive committee. He was a recipient of three national awards on science and technology and nine awards by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.