Keynote Speaker
Prof. Thomas Blaschke, University of Salzburg, Austria
His research interests include methodological issues of the integration of GIS,remote sensing and image processing also with aspects of participation and human-environment interaction. Prior positions comprise several lecturer, senior lecturer and professor positions in Germany, Austria and the UK as well as temporary affiliations as guest professor and visiting scientists in Germany and the US including about 115 journal publications. He is author, co-author or editor of 17 books, received several academic prices and awards including the Christian-Doppler Prize 1995 and was elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2015. He has been and is projet leader in various international and national research projects and serves on various editing boards of international journals, conference committees and for a dozen national research councils.

Publications: https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=kMroJzUAAAAJ&hl=de

Title: Digital Earth: From a concept to high precision digital twins of the Earth
Abstract: Earth observation (EO) data – including satellite-borne, airborne or drone-based imagery - help to understand flows of rivers, how weather and climate conditions or to model future conditions and events. EO and Geoinformatics play a critical role in observing and understanding our environment and, ultimately, our lives. A metaphor and framework is the vision of “Digital Earth”. I will elucidate recent initiatives and conceptual frameworks for digital twins of the Earth. Such digital twins aim to create an interactive model of the Earth, which arises from the integration of individual models that accurately reflect diverse physical aspects of our planet and orchestrate reliable information about past, present, and future changes in the Earth system. The underlying models are based on measurements and observations while being complemented with state-of-the-art analytical techniques such as artificial intelligence (AI).

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Shuisen Chen, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Shuisen Chen is a remote sensing expert and geographer with expertise in remote sensing of environment and precision agriculture. He is appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Environmental Remote Sensing Branch of the China Remote Sensing Application Association. He predominantly works in estuary and coast, and on water quality of rivers and reservoirs, and crop growth monitoring and nutrient remote sensing. His research focuses on remote sensing inversion of surface parameters and analysis of environment process and effects using remote sensing Big Data. He is appointed as doctoral Supervisor in Chinese Academy University of Sciences, Chief Expert of "Remote Sensing Big Data and Precision Agriculture" of Guangdong Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System Innovation Team, Guangdong Province Overseas High-level Talents (Having worked or as senior research Visiting Fellows in the United States and United Kingdom). He has hosted more than 30 national, provincial and ministerial-level research projects (15 key projects), published more than 100 papers (more than 60 in SCI / EI indexed publications), won 2 provincial-level scientific and technological progress second prizes. He has served as project review experts of national funds, Talents and journals for many years.

Speech Title: Current Situation of global water system connectivity and its evaluation
Abstract. Assessments of total suspended substances (TSS) are important to environmental management and risk analysis of ecosystems. In this study, we discuss the developed process of a two bands TSS remote sensing model for water quality monitoring. The model has been validated by different remote sensing sensors, such as Landsat TM, MODIS. The model has been applied in estuaries and coasts of United States and China including water bodies with different turbidities. The application is also produced on evaluation of water quality effects on Chinese White Dolphin habitat in Pearl River Estuary and coral reef in southwest of Leizhou peninsula of south China.

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Andrii Bieliatynskyi, North Minzu University, Ukraine
Prof., Hb.-Dr. Bieliatynskyi Andii, Date of birth: December 24, 1970. Nationality: Ukrainian.
He has graduated with a distinction from the Kyiv Automotive-Road Institute on the specialty "Highways and Airfields" (1988-1993). On completion of the Institute he worked as a road master of Gaivoronskyi district road -repair-building area. From 1993 to 2004 he worked at the National Transport University: as a graduate student (1993-1996), Senior Researcher (1996-1999), as a person working for Doctor's Degreeт of the Chair of Bridges and Tunnels (1999-2004). Since 2004 to 2020 Mr. Bieliatynskyi has been working at the National Aviation University: as a Prof. of the Chair of Airports and Motorways Reconstruction (2004-2008); since 2008 to 2020 he heads this Chair, being simultaneously Deputy Director on Science of the Institute of Municipal Economy (2006-2008), Acting Director of the Institute of Municipal Economy (2008). Since 2009 to 2020 he has been taking up the position of a Deputy Director on Science of the Institute of Airports of the National Aviation University.
Mr. Andrii Bieliatynskyi is a Prof. of the North Minzu University (2020), Yinchuan, Ningxia-Hui Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Civil Engineering (2020), academician of the Transport Academy of Ukraine (2003), academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine (2008), honorary road worker of Ukraine (2008). Expert of the Thousand Talents Program in China. Honorary Prof. of Yinchuan University (China), honorary Prof. of Northwestern Polytechnic University (China), honorary Prof. of Harbin Institute of Technology (China), honorary Prof. of Shandong Transport University (China), member of an International Association of Specialists of Industrial Hydraulics and Pneumatics, Doctor of Engineering Sciences (2005). Awards: Insignia of the Institute of Ecology and Design of the National Aviation University (2005), a breastplate the "Honoured Road-worker of Ukraine" (2008), a Medal "For Zealous Labour"(2009), Big Silver Medal of the Ukrainian Academy of Civil Engineering (2014), Medal "Distinction of friendship between China and Ukraine, 70 years of formation of the people's Republic of China" (2019).

Title: Hydrological investigation of bridge passages by using of remote Earth sounding.
Abstract: The thesis is relevant to a problem of use space shooting and airborne techniques for hydrological survey of bridge passages. There has been developed a new valid approach to hydrological survey of bridge passages, based on use of remote Earth sounding methods, which are accomplished from an artificial satellite, an airplane or another aircraft. The GIS of drain process have been elaborated using space information for the purpose of the overall estimation of surface run-off conditions, study drainage network and storage basins characteristics as well as impound flood-lands forecasting and prevention. The high trustworthiness of identification of objects, engineering constructions, drainage network elements and underflooding boundaries is reached at photointerpretation. The remote sounding from an airplane can be used successfully for determination of the calculated probabilistic values such as levels, water consumption, streams rates, stream jets directions, quantity and structure of solid material transferred by water flow, river-bed modification. The functional dependence for determination of the overall and local values of offshore motion of sediments, backwater etc. on basis of aerial photography has been developed by means of a bridge passage GIS. The schemes for realization of aerial hydrometric measurements have been elaborated.
Keywords: remote Earth sounding, hydrological survey, GIS of drain process, bridge passage GIS, GIS floods, GIS of regional flood risk assessment, GIS of local flood risk assessment.