Recently, at the 61th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 211 (Geographic Information/Geomatics), held in Gothenburg, Sweden, Yin Qiang, a faculty member from the College of Information Science and Technology, was officially appointed Convener of ISO/TC 211 Advisory Group 13 (ISO/TC 211/AG 13) for a term of three years.
This marks the first time that a member of our university has assumed an important position in this international organization. Currently, only four registered Chinese experts hold management positions in ISO/TC 211.
The mission of ISO/TC 211/AG 13 is to promote the application and implementation of ISO international standards related to land cover and land use within the United Nations and other international organizations.At present, Yin Qiang from our university and Matieu Henry from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) serve as joint conveners.
Associate Professor Yin Qiang organized the working meeting of ISO/TC 211/AG 13 and delivered an oral presentation entitled Standardization Cases in Land Cover/Land Use of China. She discussed the progress and future work plan of standards related to land cover classification with nearly 30 registered standard experts from various countries, both online and offline.
In addition, together with Professor Professor Ligang from our university, she participated in the drafting of the ISO 19124 series of standards (Geographic information — Calibration and validation of remote sensing data and products) under Working Group 6. At the meeting, they answered questions from representatives of national standard experts and held detailed discussions with the project leader, further advancing the development of this series of standards.
