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Jonathan Li
Professor
Geography and Environmental Management
Contact Information:
Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 34504
Office: EV1 - 111
Email: junli(at)uwaterloo.ca
Personal Homepage: Visit Website
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Degree:
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Ph.D. |
University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2000 |
Professional Associations:
| P.Eng. |
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) |
| OLS/OLIP |
Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) |
| Senior Member |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Academic Honours:
- 2011 - Talbert Abrams Award for best scientific paper in aerial photography and mapping, published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing in 2010.
- 2011 - Ford Bartlett Award for actively promoting memberships in American Society for Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing in 2010
- 2008 - ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems (2nd place), published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing in 2007.
- 2007 - CIG Award for Best Poster, presented at Joint CIG/ISPRS Conference on Risk and Disaster Management, Toronto, Ontario, May 22-25, 2007.
- 2007 - MDA Award for Best Paper in Orthophotography, Photogrammetry and Surveying, published in Geomatica in 2006.
- 2003 - Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) New Opportunities Fund Award
Research Interests:
Dr. Li's research interests lie mainly in the areas of remote sensing and geographical information science including topographic and thematic mapping from satellite imagery, airborne and terrestrial mobile laser scanning, remote sensing of inland and coastal waters, GIS and web mapping, terrain analysis in hydrogeography, hazard mapping and earth observation of global change.
Contact Jonathan Li for more information on research opportunities.
Graduate Student Supervision:
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# of students currently
supervising/co-supervising |
Total # of student
supervisions/co-supervisions |
Masters |
7 |
28 |
PhD |
9 |
12 |
Post Doc |
0 |
4 |
Professional Activities:
Recent/Key Publications (*Graduate Students):
- Yang, B., Fang, L., Li, Q. and Li, J., 2012. Automated extraction of road markings from mobile lidar point cloud, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, in press (ASPRS: SCI IF=1.846).
- Yang, B., Wei, Z., Li, Q. and Li, J., 2012. Automated extraction of street-scene objects from mobile lidar point clouds, International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press (Taylor & Francis, SCI IF=1.089).
- *Guan, X., Li, J. and Booty, W. 2011. Monitoring Lake Simcoe water quality using Landsat TM images, Water Resources Management, 25(2011): 2015-2033 (Springer, SCI IF=2.013).
- *Yan, H., Li. J. and Wen, H., 2011. A blind watermarking approach for vector geospatial data, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35 (2011): 485-492 (Elsevier, SCI IF=1.147).
- Li , J. and *Guan, H, 2011. 3D building reconstruction from lidar point clouds fused with aerial imagery, Yang, X (ed.) Urban Remote Sensing, Wiley-Blackwell, 75-92.
- *Shu YM, Li J, and *Gomes G, 2010. Shoreline extraction from Radarsat-2 intensity imagery using a narrow band level set segmentation approach, Marine Geodesy 33(2): 187-203 (Taylor & Francis: SCIE IF=1.045).
- *Shu YM, Li J, *Yousif H, and *Gomes G, 2010. Dark-spot detection from SAR intensity imagery with spatial density thresholding for oil-spill monitoring, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (9): 2026-2035 (Elsevier: SCI IF=3.943).
- *Li Y and Li J, 2010. Oil spill detection from SAR intensity image using a marked point process, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (7): 1590-1601(Elsevier: SCI IF=3.943).
- *Li Y, Li J, and Chapman MA, 2010. Segmentation of SAR intensity imagery with a Voronoi tessellation, Bayesian inference and reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(4): 1872-1881 (IEEE: SCI IF=3.157).
- *Wu S, Li J, and Huang GH, 2008. Characterization and evaluation of elevation data uncertainty in water resources modeling with GIS, Water Resources Management, 22(8): 959-972 (Springer: SCI IF=2.013)
Read a complete list of publications
Courses Taught:
- GEOG 215: China: Diverse and Dynamic
- GEOG 310: Geodesy and Surveying
- GEOG 316: Multivariate Statistics
- GEOG 608: Urban Remote Sensing
