Dear colleagues,
The Call for 2018 International Students from the University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences (UCAS) has started. There are 6 types of sholarships
for international students, including Doctoral Programs, Master's
Programs, Visiting Students Programs, CAS-TWAS President's Fellowship
Programme for Doctoral Candidates, CAS The Belt and Road Master
Fellowship Programme. Application deadline for the next fall semester
(starting in September 2018) is March 31th, 2018.
The present announcement is distributed by Digital Agriculture Division
of Prof Wu Bingfang at CAS in Beijing, where research focuses on the
following themes:
1. Global crop monitoring and forecasting (CropWatch). We publish
regular global crop condition bulletins (http://www.cropwatch.com.cn/)
and have an interest in food security, crop modelling, ground and
satellite-based monitoring indicators, regional crop forecasting, GIS,
data dissemination and other related subjects;
2. Climate change impacts, adaptation and related issues (such as
biomass and water resources assessment and mapping), especially in Africa;
3. Land cover mapping and vegetation monitoring at regional scale. We
completed the China National Land Cover Database (ChinaCover for 1990,
2000 and 2010) with 30m resolution and 38 classes with an overall
accuracy of about 85% (ChinaCover2010). The 2000-2010 time series
include fractional vegetation cover, LAI, FPAR, NPP, phenology and
forest above-ground biomass estimation using airborne LiDAR and scaling
models;
4. Evapotranspiration management and monitoring (ETWatch), including
Basin-wide ET Management based on basin-scale water consumption balance,
allowable water consumption, identification of water consumption
tradeoffs, competition and feedback among different water sectors.
If you have an interest in agricultural and environmental monitoring,
water and energy resources, remote sensing, GIS, agrometeorology,
climate change or food security (including economic aspects) and if you
are tempted by one of the broad subjects listed above, we would be
pleased to hear from you. kindly send your CV Shuyi (Ms) with a copy to
Prof Wu ([log in to unmask]) to indicate your technical field and
preferences. We can help you with the preparation of a proposal to join
the Digital Agriculture Division at CAS in Beijing.
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