Prof. Guo Huadong is Director-General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RSDE), an Academician of CAS, and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He has over thirty years of experience in remote sensing, specializing in radar for Earth observation and remote sensing applications, and has been involved in research on Digital Earth since the end of the last century.
He has been Principle Investigator for over twenty major national projects or programs in China, and Principle Investigator for seven international radar remote sensing projects. He was appointed to the position of “Chief scientist of the national expert committee for information acquisition and processing technology”. Currently, he is the project Principal Scientist of Earth observation for Global Environmental Change, one of China’s national basic research programs. Prof. Guo has published more than three-hundred papers and fifteen books, and is the principal awardee of thirteen national and CAS prizes, one being “National Outstanding Expert”, awarded by the State Council of China.