The ISPRS SC Webinar Series
ISPRS WG III/9 (Geospatial Environment and Health Analytics) Webinar Series - Feb 2026
This webinar series is organised by the ISPRS WG III/9 (Geospatial Environment and Health Analytics) with the technical support of the ISPRS Student Consortium (ISPRS SC).
Date: 25 February, 2026
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 (GMT+0) | 8:00 AM (US Central Time)
Title: LIDAR Applications in Urban Environmental Studies
Speaker: Dr Pinliang Dong
Opening Remarks: Dr Laurent Polidori
Moderator: Dr Muralikrishna Iyyanki
Speaker Bio: Dr Pinliang Dong is Professor and Department Chair - Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas (UNT), Denton. TX, USA. Dr. Dong's research interests include geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. Dr. Dong teaches Intermediate GIS, Advanced GIS, Advanced GIS Programming, Introduction to Remote Sensing, and Special Problems. He advises research in GIS, remote sensing, and applications in geographic and environmental sciences. Recent graduate theses include selecting optimal residential Iocations using GIS, vegetation mapping using NASAs EO-1 hyperspectral image data, development of a GIS toolkit for wiIdIife tracking, and smalI-area population estimation using high resolution satellite images and LiDAR data.
