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HONG KONG, CHINA
Hong Kong, China, had been focusing in meteorology,
with the Hong Kong Observatory being the provider of weather
services. The Hong Kong Observatory receives polar-orbiting
and geostationary satellite images for day-to-day weather
services, particularly in the monitoring of tropical cyclones
and rainstorms. Images from satellites were also used to
obtain ocean colour, sea-surface temperature and ocean surface
wind information. In recent years, there was increasing
involvement by many other institutions and more applications
in remote sensing, GIS and GPS.
The Centre for Coastal and Atmospheric Research of the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Joint
Laboratory for Geo-Information Science of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and
the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University were also conducting
programmes in research and applications of remote sensing,
GIS and GPS in fields of monitoring toxic pollutants, sediment,
chlorophyll concentration, ocean current, fishing grounds,
and vertically integrated precipitable water vapour. Hong
Kong, China, operates two teleports with 22 antennae for
communication satellites over the Pacific and the Indian
oceans to provide a wide range of satellite telecommunication
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