About Jianya Gong’s work
Based at Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, Jianya Gong held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from March to September 1998.
Biography
Jianya Gong graduated from the Department of Surveying of East China Institute of Geology (now East China University of Technology) in 1982 and pursued his PhD at Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping. He received his PhD in 1992 and was promoted to associate professor in the same year. He is a professor at the Institute of Aerospace Science and Technology of Wuhan University. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Gong's research area includes geographic information theory and geometric remote sensing. In 1990's, he proposed the object-oriented geographic information system model and method, which became the current mainstream technology. In terms of photogrammetry and remote sensing, a generalized geometric imaging model and precise processing method for remote sensing were proposed, a ground processing system for Chinese remote sensing satellites was developed. He designed China's first civil stereo mapping satellite, Ziyuan-3, and the development of a remote sensing data ground processing system, bringing the technology to international level.