4th EABRN-UNESCO Training Workshop Successfully Opened

The 4th EABRN-UNESCO Training Workshop on “Remote Sensing and GIS for Biosphere Reserve Management” concluded on 22 April 2011 at the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Guo Huadong, Director-General of AIR and Director of HIST, Ramasamy Jayakumar, Program Specialist of the UNESCO Beijing Office, Wang Kanghong, Vice-president of SuperMap Software Co., Ltd, Shen Sha, representative of Leica Geosystems AG, teachers, and 20 participants from eight countries attended the closing ceremony.

Opening Ceremony of the Training Workshop

Hong Tianhua, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the HIST under the auspices of UNESCO, presided over the opening ceremony.

Zhang Bing, Deputy Director of the Center for Earth Observation, delivered a speech.

Mr. N. Ishwaran, Director of the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and Secretary of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, UNESCO, delivered a speech.

Wang Ding, Secretary-General of the Chinese National Committee for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, delivered a speech.

Wang Xinyuan, Deputy Director of the HIST, introduced the Centre.

Group photo of guests attending the opening ceremony and all trainees.