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Biography

Kuang Dingbo, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He studied physics at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Kuang Dingbo served at the Shanghai Technical Physics Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has systematically explored the field of infrared application and remote sensing technology. Kuang was responsible for the successful development of advanced equipment, such as aviation infrared scanning cameras, satellite gesture measurement infrared horizon instruments and missile trajectory measurement infrared capture and track systems. In the 1970s, he initiated and presided over the research of aviation-to-ground observatory infrared and multi-spectrum techniques. He developed internationally advanced remote sensing scanners for environment resources, which became an important part of the aviation remote sensing system of China.

Subsequently he led a scientific research group which developed a more complete technical basis for China's satellite infrared remote sensing. Kuang was responsible for the design of multiple kinds of satellite infrared remote sensing instruments, including the scanning radiometer as the core instrument of the "Fengyun I" satellite. Its on-orbit performance has been counted among the most advanced at the international level. The ocean water color observation wave band configured for the instrument is the innovation of Chinese standards.

Kuang Dingbo was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.