Ke Tao, China’s remote sensing expert who was ‘devoted’ to national defence, dies at 48
China’s top remote sensing expert Ke Tao died from an illness on Wednesday at the age of 48, according to an obituary from Wuhan University. “Comrade Ke Tao made outstanding achievements in national defence science and technology and remote sensing mapping,” the obituary released
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