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Dr. Linlin Ge
Dr. Linlin Ge is currently an Associate Professor of remote sensing and GPS in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Project Leader and Senior Research Fellow with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. He is also a Visiting Professor of NSW Land and Property Information.
Among many other prestigious awards, A/ Professor Ge and his team's
work to support the Sichuan Earthquake rescue effort won them the JK
Barrie Award for Overall Excellence at the 2008 Asia-Pacific Spatial
Excellence Awards. He was also named the NSW Scientist of the Year 2009 in the Physics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Astronomy Category.
Linlin received his BEng (1st Hons) in Optical Engineering from the
Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (1985), MSc in
Crustal Deformation from the Institute of Seismology (1988) and PhD in
GPS and remote sensing from the UNSW (2001). In 1997-1998, he was a
postdoctural research fellow in the Meteorological Research Institute of
the Japan Meteorological Agency sponsored by the Science and Technology
Agency of Japan.
He is also a Representative on the National Committee of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Commission and foundation member of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute. He is a Member of the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) and a Life Member of the AGU (the American Geophysical Union). He is also the Co-Chair of Sub-Commission 4.4, "Applications of Satellite and Airborne Imaging Systems" of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and a Principal Investigator for satellite missions such as Envisat, ALOS, COSMO-SkyMed and Radarsat-2.