EOAS Seminar by Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) Thrust, HKUST (GZ) - Enhance Environmental Resilience: Leveraging Integrated Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence

As global urbanization accelerates and climate change intensifies, our societies are increasingly vulnerable to environmental stresses. In particular, urban areas face significant threats from geohazards such as land deformation, and ecosystems are impacted by shifting carbon cycles and rising global temperatures. Enhancing resilience to these challenges is now critical for achieving sustainable development. In this seminar, I will discuss my work on the development and application of innovative satellite remote sensing and deep learning methods to monitor large-scale land deformations, and the combination of satellite observations and earth system models to understand global terrestrial carbon dynamics. Two important scientific issues will be specifically addressed. First, I will introduce innovative DEM super-resolution-based InSAR and AI-driven spatiotemporal pattern recognition methods to better monitor and interpret urban geohazards in city clusters. Second, I will explore how integrating satellite observations into AI framework can reduce uncertainties plaguing climate model projections, offering new insights into future terrestrial carbon dynamics. Together, this seminar will demonstrate how my research advances fundamental scientific knowledge in large-scale infrastructural safety and contributes to more effective climate adaptation policy-making, which will be beneficial for improving sustainability and resilience in the face of growing challenges.