ASD Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist Dr. Alexander Goetz Honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences for Pioneering Hyperspectral Imaging
Posted by Kathryn Beley on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 @ 01:36 PM
With the Chinese New Year approaching, we thought it would be
appropriate to post an article highlighting a recent and highly significant visit one of ASD’s co-founders made to Beijing, China.
Dr. Alexander Goetz was honored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his 30-plus years of the scientific and technological development of hyperspectral imaging. Hyperspectral imaging is now used worldwide in airborne and space-borne instruments to study the composition of the Earth’s surface, land as well as sea.
Dr. Goetz, a University of Colorado Professor Emeritus, gave a day-long set of lectures at a special two-day symposium on hyperspectral imaging held Dec. 1-2 at the Center for Earth Observations and Digital Earth in Beijing, China.
“You are surely the leading person in this field, producing nearly all critical achievements in the last 30 years,” Dr. Zhang Bing, Deputy Director of the Chinese Academy told Dr. Goetz.
Dr. Goetz replied, “While I very much appreciate the compliment, I cannot take full credit since I have had abundant help along the way from colleagues, students and co-workers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Colorado and ASD Inc.” 
The Chinese Academy has a great interest in pursuing hyperspectral imaging as evidenced by the 200 faculty and students attending the symposium. The Chinese Space Agency has already sent a hyperspectral imager into lunar orbit and pursues land studies with airborne hyperspectral sensors. ASD Inc. has sold more than 400 portable spectrometer systems to China for a variety of remote sensing research applications.