[Grant] Dr. Bin Chen got one URC Small Equipment Grant—"Modelling eye-level green exposure from remotely sensed bird-view observations with a novel 2D to 3D transformation framework" . [Award] Dr. Bin Chen received The Hong Kong openBIM/openGIS Award with Honorable Mention. [Lecture]Dr. Bin Chen gave an invited talk at the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, on the topic of “Geospatial big data in urban environmental studies”. [Paper] One paper led by Dr. Bin Chen about "Spatial patterns and drivers for wildfire ignitions in California" was published by Environmental Research Letters. [Paper] A co-author paper entitled "A global map of planting years of plantations" was accepted byScientific Data. [Paper] One paper led by Ms. Miao Li about "The land-sea interface mapping: China's coastal land covers at 10 meters for 2020" was submitted to Science Bulletin (under review). February [Lecture]Dr. Bin Chen gave an invited lecture about "Human-Urban Environment Spatiotemporal Interaction" at School of Energy and Environment at CityU of Hong Kong. [Paper] One paper led by Dr. Bin Chen about "Beyond green environments: multi-scale difference in human exposure to greenspace in China" was submitted to Environment International (under review). [Paper] One paper led by Ms. Ying Tu and Dr. Bin Chen about "Olympic effects on reshaping urban greenspace of host cities" was submitted to Landscape and Urban Planning (under review). [Paper] One paper led by Ms. Miao Li entitled "Monitoring Post-Flood Recovery of Croplands Using the Integrated Sentinel-1/2 Imagery in the Yangtze-Huai River Basin" was published in Remote Sensing. [Book chapter] One book chapter led by Dr. Bin Chen and Dr. Yimeng Song about "Changes of Urban Greenspace Coverage and Exposure in China" was accepted for the Book "Green Infrastructure in Chinese Cities" published by Springer Nature.
October [Grant] Dr. Bin Chen got one HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research—"Urban land use monitor (LUMonitor): Time-series mapping of essential urban land use categories in Greater Bay Area" . [Paper] Tu Ying's paper entitled "Uncovering the Nature of Urban Land Use Composition Using Multi-source Open Big Data with Ensemble Learning" was accepted byRemote Sensing. [Special issue] Submissions are now welcomed for the co-edited Special Issue "Sustainable Urban Development with the Support of Earth Observations" in All Earth.
September [Service] Dr. Bin Chen will join the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation as Associate Editor. [Service] Dr. Bin Chen was invited to join the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Remote Sensing, with the specialty section in Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis.
August [Paper] A co-author paper entitled "Annual dynamic dataset of global cropping intensity from 2001 to 2019" was accepted byScientific Data. [Special issue] Submissions are now welcomed for the co-edited Special Issue "Geo-Information in Smart Societies and Environment" in Remote Sensing with Prof. Qiming Zhou, Dr. Jianfeng Li, Dr. Bin Chen, and Dr. Meng Gao.