About
The Digital Earth Education Award is awarded to Prof. Lizhe Wang for his contributions to advancing education and research in geospatial informatics and big data analytics by pioneering a Digital Earth course at the China University of Geosciences.
Prof. Lizhe Wang is a professor at China Univ. of Geosciences. He received B.E. & M.E from Tsinghua Univ. and D.E. from Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include remote sensing information engineering, Digital Earth, Geocomputing. He is a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, IET and BCS, and associate editor of Scientific Data, IEEE J-MASS, IEEE J-STARS, and remote sensing. He is the recipient of Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC, National Leading Talents of Science & Technology Innovation, 100-Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.
