July 2017 - June 2018

JULY 2017 - JUNE 2018

July 2018
The book co-edited by Dr. Yuhong He and Dr. Qihao Weng entitled High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing: Data, Analysis, and Applications is published by CRC Press, Tayler & Francis Group. Thanks to all the contributors and reviewers.

May 2018
Our first-year Ph.D. student Mitchell Bonney from Prof. Yuhong He's RSSEM lab has been selected as runner-up for the Best Oral Presentation at the UTM Graduate Research Colloquium 2018. The title of Mitchell's talk was monitoring changes in forest health across the urban-rural transition using multi-source data. Congratulations!

May 2018
Mitchell Bonney from the Remote Sensing and Spatial Ecosystem Modeling Laboratory at UTM was giving a talk on May 2, 2018, to 180 Grade 6 to 8 students in the Let's Talk Science Outreach Event at UTM. Mitchell's talk entitled using satellites to see changes across our landscape was very well received by students. 

April 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Jian Yang who has been awarded a “Chinese Government Award this April for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad” from the China Scholarship Council. This award was founded to reward the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas. Only those with outstanding performance in their Ph.D. studies are considered by the award selection panel and no more than 500 young talents are granted the award each year all over the world.

January 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Bing Lu who is offered a Senior Remote Sensing Scientist position in Fiera Biological Consulting, Edmonton. 

December 2017
Professor He's group meeting and group Christmas lunch. 

November 2017
Congratulations to Professor Yuhong He who is recognized with the E.A. Robinson Teaching Excellence Award.


Summer to Fall 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Cameron Proctor, Dr. Bing Lu, and Dr. Jian Yang, who defended their Ph.D. thesis successfully, and received their Doctoral degrees at Convocation in November 2017. 

July 2017
Congratulations to our lab's first Ph.D. Dr. Amy Mui, who was offered a tenure tracked lecturer position in the Environmental Science Program at Dalhousie University. https://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/environmental-science-program/faculty-staff/amy-mui.html

July 2017
Congratulations to Phuong Dao, who is awarded the CGCS Graduate Student Research Award to support his airborne hyperspectral imaging collection to study grassland drought.