Jianyu Chen, PhD Visiting Research Scientist, GeoSTARS Lab Department of Geography & Environmental Management Faculty of Environment University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 E-mail: chinechen@yahoo.com

  Research Interests
   • Object-oriented image analysis
   • Remote sensing of the coastal environment
   • Geographical information systems
  Ongoing Research Project
   • Hierarchical object-oriented change detection in coastal optical and SAR images
  Research projects
   • Image-object Oriented Change detection study in high resolution remotely sensed imageries of coastal area, National Natural Science
     Foundation of China (2010-2012), Lead, Principal Investigator
   • Detection of the optimum segmentation in remote sensing imagery of coastal environment, National Natural Science Foundation of
     China (2007-2009), Lead, Principal Investigator
   • Research on the key techniques for high resolution land-cover change reconstruction in coastal environment in past four decades,
     Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (2007-2008), Lead, Principal Investigator
   • Study on the remote monitoring hypoxia-indicating parameters and the hypoxia-impact indictors, National Science & Technology Pillar
     Program (2008-2012), Lead, Principal Investigator
  Education
   • Ph.D. in Earth Science, Zhejiang University, China, 2004
   • M.Sc. in Earth Science, Zhejiang University, China, 1998
   • B.Sc. in Earth Science, Zhejiang University, China, 1995
      Work Experience
   • Sept. 2010 - Present: Visiting Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment,
      University of Waterloo, Canada
   • Dec. 2009 - August 2010: Professor/Associate Professor (May 2006 - December 2009), State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean
      Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
   • May 2004 May 2006: Post Doctoral Fellow, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
   • Sept. 1999 - Sept. 2000: Division Manager, VIA Software (Hangzhou) Inc. China
   • March 1998 - Sept. 1999: Software Engineer, Ningbo Institute of Communication technology, China
    Intellectual Property Rights
   • Patent No. ZL 2007 1 0068214.2, Chen Jianyu, scale adjustable image segmentation method
    Books
   • Mao, Z., Chen, J., Zhang H., Ling M., Ma, Y., 2007. Satellite remote sensing of Dongsha Atoll, (Book in Chinese), Ocean Publisher,
     205pp.
    Refereed Publications
   • Kang, L., Chen, J., Chen, N., 2010. HLA based prototype design and development of environment modeling and simulation for deep
     sea mining, Journal of System Simulation, 22 (5): 1319-1323.
   • Mao, Z., Chen, J., Huang, H., 2010. Establishment of a hyperspectral evaluation model of ocean color satellite-measured
     reflectance, Science in China Series F: Information Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s11432-009-0101-1.
   • Chen, J., Pan, D., Mao, Z. 2009. Image-object detectable in multiscale analysis on high-resolution remotely sensed imagery,
     International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30 (14): 3585–3602.
   • Weng, H., Zhu, Y., Qin, Y., Chen, J., and Chen, X., 2008. Accumulation discrepancy of heavy metal and organic pollutants in three
     near-shore depositional environments, southeastern China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 31 ( 4-6): 522-532.
   • Chen, J., Mao, Z., Zhang, H., 2007. Analysis on coral reefs mapping using SPOT5 data at the Dong-Sha Atoll, Acta Oceanologica
     Sinica, 26(2): 26-35.
   • Chen, J., Pan, D., Mao, Z., 2006. Optimum segmentation of simple objects in high-resolution remote sensing imagery in coastal area.
     Science in China (Series D), 49 (11): 1195-1203.