- Joined
- Sep 22, 2008
- Messages
- 82,166
- Points
- 113
Science
ChinaScience
Why you can trust SCMP
14
Listen
Dannie Pengin Beijing
Published: 2:00pm, 22 May 2025Updated: 2:23pm, 22 May 2025
The leading Chinese radar expert Li Chunsheng has died at the age of 62.
Advertisement
Li, a professor at the school of electronic information engineering of Beihang University in Beijing, became ill last week at a conference hosted by the China Radar Industry Association in Hefei, the capital of the central province of Anhui.
An obituary published by his university on Monday said he had “devoted himself to developing China’s aerospace industry”.
Li specialised in synthetic aperture radar, with a particular focus on image processing and methods to enhance the quality of the images produced.
His university said he had made “systematic and significant contributions” to the development of the technology and that as a teacher he had helped cultivate top talent in the aerospace remote sensing sector.
ChinaScience
Award-winning Chinese radar expert Li Chunsheng dies aged 62 at conference
The Beihang University scientist died last week after being taken ill during an academic event in Anhui province
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMP
14
Listen
Dannie Pengin Beijing
Published: 2:00pm, 22 May 2025Updated: 2:23pm, 22 May 2025
The leading Chinese radar expert Li Chunsheng has died at the age of 62.
Advertisement
Li, a professor at the school of electronic information engineering of Beihang University in Beijing, became ill last week at a conference hosted by the China Radar Industry Association in Hefei, the capital of the central province of Anhui.
An obituary published by his university on Monday said he had “devoted himself to developing China’s aerospace industry”.
Li specialised in synthetic aperture radar, with a particular focus on image processing and methods to enhance the quality of the images produced.
His university said he had made “systematic and significant contributions” to the development of the technology and that as a teacher he had helped cultivate top talent in the aerospace remote sensing sector.
