Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Associate Vice-President
Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management
Programme Director, Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management
Member, Centre of Strategic Environmental Assessment for China
Professor Fung Tung obtained his B.A. and M.Phil. in geography from The University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Canadian commonwealth scholarship and received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 1988. He joined CUHK in 1988 and is currently Professor of the Department of Geography and Resource Management. He was the Chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, and the Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management at CUHK and has helped establish the new Centre of Strategic Environmental Assessment for China.
Professor Fung's research and teaching interests include land use and land cover change detection, landscape analysis, hyperspectral data analysis, development of classification and change analysis methods for remote sensing images and application of geoinformation science in environmental monitoring and planning. Throughout the years, Professor Fung has provided consultancy services to various government departments on the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems, and has published widely in major international academic journals. He is a founding council member and has been President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association. |