Guo Huadong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1950 and graduated from Nanjing University in 1977. Gao received a master's degree from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981 and studied at Oregon State University from 1984 to 1985.
Guo spent his formative research years with the Institute of Remote Sensing Application at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He served as a research fellow at the institute as well as an executive deputy director. In 1988, he ascended to the institute's directorship. Guo later became director of the key lab of remote sensing information science at the academy.
A member of the National 863 Program Information Acquisition and Process Technology Theme Expert Team, Guo has served as executive deputy editor-in-chief of Remoting Sensing Journal and is a member of the editorial board of six Chinese and foreign magazines. He is the director-general of the environment remote sensing division of the China Geography Society.
Beginning in the late 1970s, Guo has studied remote sensing information science – notably radar-to-ground observations. He has supervised more than twenty domestic and international research projects and published more than 140 theses. Guo is the winner of numerous first, second, and third prizes of scientific and technological progress from the academy as well as a prominent contribution prize about the national 863 program.