Cooperative Project ‘Development of Disaster Monitoring & Warning Information System for the Fishery Industry in the Pearl River Delta’ was closed out

　　-- the “5th environmental remote sensing workshop between Hong Kong and Guangdong”　 

　　Recently, the cooperative project ‘Development of Disaster Monitoring & Warning Information System for the Fishery Industry in the Pearl River Delta’has been officially closed out. The project close-out report meeting was held in Conghua, Guangdong alongside the “5th environmental remote sensing workshop between Hongkong and Guangdong”. 

　　The workshop was convened and presided over by the project PI, Dr. Danling Tang. Dr. Zhang Ming, Director of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department, said in his speech that this cooperative project set a very good example of research cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangdong, and it was of great scientific and social significance. 

　　Dr. Danling Tang gave a conclusion of the project. This project aimed to develop an innovative information system with the function of real-time monitoring and intelligent early warming for ocean disaster occurring in Pearl River Delta by integrating the ocean observation, remote sensing, image processing, geoinformation system and network technologies. The system got approved by the experts and was considered to have good application prospect. It could be used for official departments to generate and distribute information about sea water quality and oil spill, for the government to create auxiliary decisionmaking platforms to handle disasters, for scientific and eductional institution to learn the disaster mechanism and develop monitoring models, for information and technology companies to provide upgraded service in offering disaster information. 

　　The project was supported by the Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong and carried out by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS and the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science of the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong. The project and the workshop provided a good platform for scientists to communicate and exchange ideas and accomplishments on remote sensing research, and promoted future cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangdong. (http://lingzis.51.net/hkcu-scsio.htm)