On the morning of October 7, 2021, the first meeting of the 7th academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing Information Engineering (LIESMARS) was held in the lecture hall of the Xinghu Building in Wuhan University. This is the first time that an academic committee meeting was held in the new Xinghu building. The meeting was attended by
- Honorary Director of the Academic Committee: Academician Li, Deren
- Deputy Director and Vice-President of Wuhan University: Academician Gong, Jianya
- Academician Li, Jiancheng
- Tong, Qingxi
- Academician Liu, Jingnan
- Academician Wang, Jiayao
- Academician Pan, Delu
- Yang, Yuanxi
- Academician Guo, Renzhong
- Zhou, Cheng
- Academician Jiang, Xingwei
- Academician Sun, Heping
- Academician Chen, Jun
- Academician Wang Qiao (online)
- leaders of the National Natural Science Foundation of Chine
- leaders of the Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping, the National Satellite Ocean Application Center and other relevant departments, as well as relevant leaders and teachers of the Institute of Science and Technology Development and the laboratory of Wuhan University
Professor Chen, Ruizhi, director of the laboratory, made the 2021 director’s work report, introducing the laboratory and the direction of the LIESMARS within the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan”. Professor Zhang, Guo, Associate Professor Ma, Yingying, Professor Shao, Zhenfeng, Professor Yang, Bisheng and Professor Chen, Liang introduced the different research directions of LIESMARS. Professor Wu, Huayi, deputy director of the laboratory, reported to the Academic Committee on the application and preliminary evaluation of the 2021 Laboratory Open Fund. After the vote of the Academic Committee, a total of 20 projects have received funding from this year’s Open Fund.
Academic committee members, consultants, participating leaders and experts affirmed the achievements of the laboratory and put forward valuable opinions and suggestions on the future development of the laboratory. Experts agree that the laboratory should firmly grasp the major needs of the country, take root in the characteristics of the discipline, carry forward the scientific spirit, focus on strengthening basic research and theoretical breakthroughs, encourage young scholars to explore freely based on their interests, further sort out and refine the development planning direction, goals and measures of the laboratory’s “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan”,.
