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 Year 2011
• Weifang Yang received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
• Xiaoyong Xu received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
• Haowen Yan received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
• Yuanming Shu successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (April18, 2011)
• Tae-Jung Kwon successfully defended his master thesis (April 18, 2011)
• Xiaoyong Xu received 2011-2014 NSERC PGS Doctoral Scholarship (March 20, 2011)
• Hamad Yousif received 2011-2012 NSERC PGS-D2 Doctoral Scholarship (March 17, 2011)
• A paper co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Li won the 2011 Talbert Abrams Award (March 1, 2011)
• Prof. Li receives a 2011 Ford Bartlett Award (March 3, 2011) Year 2010
• Gary Gomes successfully defended his master thesis (September 7, 2010)
• Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Central South University (September 2, 2010)
• Prof. Jonathan Li co-edited a new book (August 27, 2010)
• Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Lanzhou Jiaotong University (July 2, 2010)
• Hamad Yousif successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (May 25, 2010)
• Prof. Li appointed Chair Professor of Hohai University (April 22, 2010)
• Prof. Li appointed Adjunct Professor of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (April 20, 2010)
• Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Peking University (April 6, 2010)
• Rui Zheng successfully passed his MES Research Paper Oral Examination (April 13, 2010)
• Hamad Yousif received 2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (April 1, 2010)
• Yuanming Shu successfully defended his MSc thesis (January 15, 2010)
Year 2009
• Qingxu Huang successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (Decembe18, 2009)
• Yu Li successfully defended his PhD thesis (November 12, 2009)
• Xian Flora Guan successfully passed her MSc thesis defense (June 2009)
• Qingxu Huang won 2nd Place of EOGC2009 Best Student Paper Award (May2009)
• Yao Lu successfully passed his MSc thesis defense (May 2009)
• Qingxu Huang won 4th place of 2009 AOLS graduate student poster competition (February 2009)
• Yipeng Yuan successfully passed his MASc thesis defense (January 2009)
Year 2008
• Wenxia Tan Passed PhD Comprehensive Examination (December 2008)
• Prof. Li appointed Chair of ISPRS Inter-Commission WG V/I (November 2008)
• Prof. Li serves as Guest Editor for JAG special issue (October)
• Xiangyu Si receives Public Safety Canada Research Fellowship (September)
• Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Sichuan University (June)
• Prof. Li serves as Guest Editor for Marine Geodesy special issue (May)
• Prof. Li and his co-authors received the 2008 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS (April)
• Xiangyu Si received 2008 Ontario Graduate Scholarships (March)
• Prof. Dr. Li appointed Vice Chair of ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery (February)
• New book on Geospatial Technology for Emergency Response published (January)
• Faranak Amirsalari successfully passed her MES thesis defense (January)
• Prof. Dr. Li appointed Editorial Board member of AJEST (January)
Year 2007
• Prof. Dr. Li appointed Editorial Board member of Sensors Journal (December)
• Xiangyu Si won 2007 OARS Graduate Research Award (November)
• Yu Li receives Public Safety Canada Research Fellowship (August)
• Prof. Dr. Li invited to attend Digital Watershed Workshop in China (July)
• Special Issue "Wireless and Web GIS" published on PE&RS (June)
• Yu Li won Best Poster Award at Gi4DM2007 (May)
• New book on Geomatics Solutions for Disaster Management published (May)
• Prof. Mingsheng Liao of Wuhan University visits UW (May)
• Prof. Dr. Li won 2006 MAD Award (May)
• Learning about mobile mapping (March)
• Yu Li and Xiangyu Si received 2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarships (March)
• Yu Li won first place of AOLS graduate student poster competition (February)
• Prof. Dr. Li appointed Associate Editor of GEOMATICA (January)
Weifang Yang received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
Weifang Yang, who will start her PhD study in September 2011 under supervision of Prof. Jonathan Li,
has been recently awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) with a total amount of $15,000 for
the academic year of 2011-2012. As a recipient of the OGS doctoral scholarship, Weifang will also
receive the UW President's Doctoral Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations, Weifang!
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Xiaoyong Xu received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
Xiaoyong Xu, who will start his PhD study in September 2011 under supervision of Prof. Jonathan Li, has
been recently awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) with a total amount of $15,000 for the
academic year of 2011-2012. As a recipient of the OGS doctoral scholarship, Weifang will also receive the
UW President's Doctoral Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations, Xiaoyong!
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Haowen Yan received 2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 8, 2011)
Haowen Yan, a first year PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, has been recently awarded the
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) with a total amount of $15,000 for the academic year of 2011-2012.
As a recipient of the OGS doctoral scholarship, Haowen will also receive the UW President's Doctoral
Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations, Haowen!
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Yuanming Shu successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (April18, 2011)
Yuanming Shu, a 2nd year PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, successfully passed his PhD
Comprehensive Examination on Monday, 18 April 2011. Congratulations, Yuanming! The examining
committee consists of 4 examiners, including Dr. Guangzhe Fan (external reader), Assistant Professor
at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Dr. Richard Kelly, Professor and Dr. Philip
Howarth, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. The
exam was chaired Dr. Johanna Wandel, Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and
Environmental Management. He will conduct a research project on "Land use and land cover
classification using very high spatial resolution satellite imagery", supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li in
the upcoming 3 years at UW.
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Tae-Jung Kwon successfully defended his master thesis (April 18, 2011)
Congratulations to Tae-Jung Kwon, who successfully defended his master thesis on 18th April 2010. Tae
has been a MSc student under supervision of Prof. Jonathan Li since September 2009. His MSc thesis is
entitled "SAR Remote Sensing of Canadian Coastal Waters using Total Variation Optimization
Segmentation Approaches ". The examining committee was formed by Prof. Jonathan Li (chair), Prof.
Claude Duguay (reader), Dr. Su-Yin Tan (reader), and Prof. Richard Kelly (Thesis Committee member).
Tae has accepted an offer for PhD study in the area of transportation engineering at the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, starting from May 2011. Congratulations,
Tae!
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Xiaoyong Xu received 2011-2014 NSERC PGS Doctoral Scholarship (March 20, 2011)
Xiaoyong Xu, who will start his PhD study in September 2011 under supervision of Prof. Jonathan Li, has
been recently awarded three-year NSERC PGS Doctoral Scholarship with a total amount of $21,000 for
the academic years of 2011-2014. As a recipient of the NSERC doctoral scholarship, Xiaoyong will also
receive the UW President's Doctoral Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations, Xiaoyong!
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Hamad Yousif received 2011-2012 NSERC PGS-D2 Doctoral Scholarship (March 17, 2011)
Hamad Yousif, a 3rd year PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, has been recently awarded the
NSERC PGS-D2 Doctoral Scholarship with a total amount of $21,000 for the academic year of 2011-2012.
As a recipient of the NSERC doctoral scholarship, Hamad will also receive the UW President's Doctoral
Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations, Hamad!
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Prof. Li receives a 2011 Ford Bartlett Award (March 3, 2011)
As indicated in the letter from Dr. Carolyn Merry, President of ASPRS, on February 24th, 2011, Prof. Li is
one of the recipients of the 2011 Ford Bartlett Award for actively promoting memberships in ASPRS. The
award carries with a hand-engrossed certificate and a one-year membership in the Society. Presentation
of the award certificate will take place during the ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, at the Awards Luncheon in the Frontier Airlines Center on Tuesday, May 3rd from 12:15 pm
to 1:30 pm.
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A paper co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Li won the 2011 Talbert Abrams Award (March 1, 2011)
Professor Carolyn J. Merry, President of ASPRS, sent a letter to Dr. Huayi Wu on March 1, 2011 that “As
president of ASPRS, I have the pleasure of informing you that you and your co-authors Yong Li,
Jonathan Li, and Jianya Gong are the First Honorable Mention winners for the 2011 Talbert Abrams
Award for youracem paper entitled “A Two Step Displent Correction Algorithm for Registration of
LiDAR Point Clouds and Aerial Images without Orientation Parameters,” PE&RS, 76 (10), 1135 – 1145.
The award consists of a hand-engrossed certificate. Presentation of the award certificate will take place
during the ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Awards Luncheon in the
Frontier Airlines Center on Tuesday, May 3rd from 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm. Please be our guest”. Talbert
"Ted" Abrams (August 17, 1895 – August 26, 1990) is known as the "father of aerial photography". Every
year, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) presents the Talbert
Abrams Award to a person who makes an outstanding contribution to aerial photography and mapping.
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Gary Gomes successfully defended his master thesis (September 7, 2010)
Congratulations to Gary Gomes. He successfully defended his master thesis on September 7th 2010.
Gary has been a MSc student under supervision of Prof. Jonathan Li since January 2009. His MSc thesis
is entitled "Development of an Oil Spill Emergency Mapping System Using Internet GIS". The examining
committee was formed by Prof. Jonathan Li (chair) and Dr. Su-Yin Tan (reader), Dr. Jane Law (reader) as
well as Dr. Rob Feick (Thesis Committee member). Gary has accepted an offer and will work in British
Columbia. Congratulations! top
Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Central South University (September 2, 2010)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Guest Professor of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan,
China. The five-year term starts from June 2010. Prof. Li will work together with a research group
chaired by Professor Dr. Yongnian Zeng at the School of Info-physics and Geomatics Engineering,
Central South University in the areas of environmental remote sensing and land use/cover change
detection. top
Prof. Jonathan Li co-edited a new book (August 27, 2010)
A new book "Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change" has been published by Springer
recently. This book is co-edited by three geography professors, Dr. Emilio Chuvieco at the University of
Alcala, Spain, Dr. Jonathan Li at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Dr. Xiaojun Yang at Florida
State University, USA. Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of
information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced
climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems provide a unique tool to
monitor those changes. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly
increasing, this book provides a summary of key case studies where satellite data offer critical
information to understand the causes and effects of those environmental changes, minimizing their
negative impacts. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of remote
sensing, geographical information, meteorology and environmental sciences. Also scientists and
graduate up to post-graduate level students in environmental science will find valuable information in
this book.
This book consists of 19 chapters. More information about this new book can be found at
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geophysics/book/978-90-481-9084-3
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Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Lanzhou Jiaotong University (July 2, 2010)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Guest Professor of Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou,
Gansu, China. Prof. Li received the appointment certificate from Professor Dr. Enen Ren, in his
President's Office. During his first visit to Lanzhou, Prof. Li delivered two presentations at the School of
Environmental and Municipal Engineering, chaired by Prof. Dr. Baowei Zhao, Associate Dean, and the
School of Mathematics, Physics and Software Engineering, chaired by Prof. Dr. Haowen Yan, Associate
Dean, respectively. Prof. Li will work with the colleagues in the research areas of photogrammetry and
remote sensing, environmental science and engineering, and geographical information science at
Lanzhou Jiaotong University for various joint research projects. top
Hamad Yousif successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (May 25, 2010)
Congratulations! Hamad Yousif, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, successfully passed his
PhD Comprehensive Examination on Tuesday, 25 May 2010. The examining committee was formed by
four examiners, including Dr. Carl Haas (external reader) from the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Dr. Richard Kelly, Dr. Su-Yin Tan, and Dr. Jonathan Li at the Department
of Geography and Environmental Management. The exam was chaired by Dr. Doug Dudycha at the
Department of Geography and Environmental Management. Hamad will conduct a research project on
"Efficient Monitoring of Bridges Using a Terrestrial Lidar Mobile Mapping Approach", in the upcoming
2-3 years at UW. top
Prof. Li appointed Chair Professor of Hohai University (April 22, 2010)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed the first "Hohai Chair Professor" of Hohai University, Nanjing,
China for a three-year term. Hohai University was ranked the top 50 universitie in China last year. Prof.
Li will work with the colleagues in the research areas of remote sensing and geographical information
science at the School of Earth Science and Engineering. Prof. Li delivered an one-month graduate course
entitled "Earth Observations for Topographic and Thematic Mapping" and several seminars at Hohai
University in April-May 2010. He was also invited for delivering guest speeches at the National
University of Defense Technology, Nanjing Normal University and Nanjing University during his recent
trip to China.
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Prof. Li appointed Adjunct Professor of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (April 20, 2010)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Adjunct Professor of China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
for a three-year term. Prof. Li received the appointment certificate from Professor Wu Jinguo, President
of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (CUGB) before his invited talk on April 20, 2010 at the newly
opened CUGB Convention Centre. CUGB was ranked the top 50 universities in China last year. Prof. Li
will work with the colleagues in the research areas of photogrammetry and remote sensing at the
Department of Geomatics Engineering, College of Land Science and Technology, and at the Department
of Geographical Information Science, ollege of Information Engineering at CUGB.
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Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Peking University (April 6, 2010)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Guest Professor of Peking Universiy, Beijing, China for a
three-year term. Peking University has been ranked the top 1 university in China. Prof. Li will work with
the colleagues in the research areas of remote sensing and GIS at the School of Earth and Space
Sciences as well as at the Institute of Remote Sensing and GIScience, Peking University. Also, Prof.
Li has been teaming up with several professors from Peking University and Technical University of
Munich (Germany) for joint organizing of International Conference on Earth Observation for Global
Changes in Chengdu, China (2009), Munich, Germany 2011), and will be in Toronto or Waterloo, Canada
(2013). top
Rui Zheng successfully passed his MES Research Paper Oral Examination (April 13, 2010)
Rui Zheng, a MES student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, successfully passed his MES research paper
oral examination on Tuesday, 13 April 2010. The examining committee was formed by Prof. Jonathan
Li (chair) and Dr. Su-Yin Tan (reader). His research paper is entitled "Building Boundary Extraction from
Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds". Rui has been working with us since September 2008. Well done, Rui,
Congratulations! top
Hamad Yousif received 2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (April 1, 2010)
Hamad Yousif, a 2nd year PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, has been recently awarded the
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) with a total amount of $15,000 for the academic year of 2010-2011.
As a recipient of the OGS doctoral scholarship, Hamad will also receive the UW President's Doctoral
Scholarship valued at $10,000/year. Congratulations! top
Yuanming Shu successfully defended his MSc thesis (January 15, 2010)
Congratulations to Yuanming Shu. He successfully defended his MSc thesis on Friday, January 15, 2010.
The thesis examining
committee was formed by Dr. Guangzhe Fan (external reader), Assistant Professor
at the Department of Statistics and Actuarial
Science, Alexander Brenning (internal reader), Assistant
Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management,
and Dr. Philip Howarth,
Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. His thesis topic is
entitled "Dark Spot Detection from SAR Intensity Imagery with Spatial Density Thresholding for Oil Spill
Monitoring". The examination
was chaired by Dr. Jonathan Li (supervisor). Yuanming has been accepted
to continue his PhD research in the area of SAR remote
sensing of marine oil spills under supervision of
Dr. Jonathan Li at the University of Waterloo in the upcoming three or four years. top
Qingxu Huang successfully passed his PhD Comprehensive Examination (December 18, 2009)
Qingxu Huang, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, successfully passed his PhD
Comprehensive Examination on Friday, 18 December 2009. The examining committee consists of 4
examiners, including Dr. Dawn Parker (external reader), Assistant
Professor at the Scholl of Planning,
Dr. Peter Deadman, Associate Professor and Dr. Philip Howarth, Professor Emeritus at the
Department
of Geography and Environmental Management. The exam was chaired Dr. Mike Stone, Professor at
the Department of of
Geography and Environmental Management. He will conduct a research project on
"Monitoring and Simulating Urban Growth Using
GIS and Agent-based Model ", co-supervised by Dr.
Jonathan Li and Dr. Dwan Parker in the upcoming 2-3 years at UW. top
Yu Li successfully defended his PhD thesis (November 12, 2009)
Congratulations to Yu Li. He successfully defended his PhD thesis on November 12, 2009. Yu was
supervised by Dr. Jonathan Li and
co-supervised by Dr. Michael Chapman at Ryerson University. His
thesis topic is entitled "Remotely Sensed Data Segmentation under
a Spatial Statistics Framework ".
His Thesis Examining Committee consisted of Dr. Jing Ming Chen (external examiner), Professor at
the Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Dr. David Clausi,
Associate Professor at the
Department of System Design Engineering, Dr. Claude Duguye, Professor at the
Department of Geography and Environmental
Management, Dr. Michael Chapman (co-supervisor),
Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, and
Dr. Jonathan Li (supervisor),
Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. The committee
was chaired by Dr. Leonardo Simon, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering. top
Xian Flora Guan successfully passed her MSc thesis defense (June 2009)
After two-year effort, Xian Flora Guan successfully passed her MSc thesis defense on June 9, 2009.
Flora's thesis is entitled "Monitoring Lake Simcoe Water Quality using Landsat TM Images". The
Examining Committee consists of two readers, Prof. Claude Duguayand Dr. Su-Yin Tanfrom the
Department of Geography & Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, his Thesis Committee
member, Dr. Bill Booty from the National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, and his
supervisor Prof. Dr. Jonathan Li. The thesis defense was chaired by Prof. Li. Congratulations, Flora! top
Qingxu Huang won 2nd Place of EOGC2009 Best Student Paper Award (May2009)
Qingxu Huang, the first year PhD student from our Lab wins the 2nd Place of the EOGC2009 Best
Student Paper Award for his paper entitled "Measuring urban sprawl using nighttime satellite imagery:
A case study of Greater Golden Horseshoe, Canada". The paper was presented at the 2nd International
Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2009), May 25-29, 2009, Chengdu, China.
A total of 5 papers were selected from more than 100 student paper submissions (one 1st place, two 2nd
place and two 3rd place). The award consists of RMB1,200 cash and a hand-engrossed certificate. The
award was presented to Qingxu by Prof. Dr. Zilin Li, Vice President of the International Cartographic
Association (ICA) during the Opening Session of the EOGC2009 in the morning of May 26.
Congratulations! top
Yao Lu successfully passed his MSc thesis defense (May 2009)
After two-year effort, Yao Lu successfully passed his MSc thesis defense on May 12, 2009. His thesis is
entitled "Semi-automatic Road Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery by a
RoadModeler". The Examining Committee consists of two readers, Prof. David Clausi from the
Department of System Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning
from the Department of Geography & Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, his Thesis
Committee member, Prof. Dr. Michael Chapman from the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson
University, and his supervisor Prof. Dr. Jonathan Li. The thesis defense was chaired by Prof. Li.
Congratulation, Yao! top
Qingxu Huang won 4th place of 2009 AOLS graduate student poster competition (February 2009)
PhD student, Qingxu Huang wins the 4th Place and Honourable mention for his
poster presentation
entitled "Study of Impacts of Urbanization Process on
Phenology Using Multi-source Satelklite Data",
given at the 2009 Graduate
Student Poster Session sponsored by the AOLS Educational Foundation
uring
the 117th Annual General Meeting of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, held in Torono,
February 25, 2009. Congratulations! top
Yipeng Yuan successfully passed his MASc thesis defense (January 2009)
After two and a half-year effort, Yipeng Yuan successfully passed his MASc thesis defense at Ryerson
University on January 22,2009. His thesis title is Use of topographic LiDAR point clouds for building
reconstruction. His profound knowledge and excellent presentation helped him win the good evaluation
from the examiners, Professors Dr. Ahmed Shaker and Dr. Songnian Li , and his co-supervisors,
Professors Dr. Michael Chapman and Dr. Jonathan Li. The thesis defense was chaired by Prof. Dr.
Grace Luk, Associate Chair in Graduate Studies of the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson
University. top
Wenxia Tan Passed PhD Comprehensive Examination (December 2008)
Wenxia Tan, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Jonathan Li, successfully passed her PhD Comprehensive
Examination on Wednesday, 3 December 2008. The examining committee consists of 4 examiners,
including Dr. Guangzhe Fan, Assistant Professor from the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science,
Dr. Ziqiang Ou, Adjunct Professor from Canadian Ice Service, Professors Claude Duguay and Dr. Jonathan
Li both from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. The Examination was
chaired by Dr. Philip Howarth, professor emeritus and the former chair of the Department of Geography.
Wenxia's research field is radar remote sensing of Canadian marine environments. She will conduct a
research project on "Automateddetection of oil spills from Radarsat-2 SAR imagery", sponsored by
Canadian Ice Service, Environment Canada. top
Prof. Li appointed Chair of ISPRS Inter-Commission WG V/I (November 2008)
The ISPRS Council has recently appointed Professor Jonathan Li as Chair of the new inter-commission
working group on land-based mobile mapping systems (ICWG V/I) for the 4-year term (2008-2012). His
co-chairs are Prof. Dr. Qingquan Li, Director of Transportation Research Centre and VP Research of
Wuhan University, China, and Dr. Antonio Tommaselli, Professor at the Department of Cartography,
Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, respectively. Prof. Dr. Joao Fernando, Dean of the Faculty of Science
and Technology, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil serves as Scientific Secretary. The details about this
working group canbe found from its website. top
Prof. Li serves as Guest Editor for JAG special issue (October 2008)
Professor Jonathan Li has been invited to serve as Guest Editor for a special issue (Vol. 11, No.4, 2009)
of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), The Impact factor
of this journal in 2007 was 1.534. The special issue is entitled Geospatial Technologies for Disaster
Management. The co-editor of this special issue is Dr. Rifaat Abdalla,Defence Scientist at Defence R&D
Canada in Toronto. All invited and contributed manuscripts must be received by June 30, 2009. The
PDF-format Call for Papers of this special issue can be downloaded here. top
Xiangyu Si receives Public Safety Canada Research Fellowship (September 2008)
PhD student Xiangyu Si has been selected as a recipient for one of the total eight of the Public Safety
Canada Research Fellowships in honour of Stuart Nesbitt White. This research fellowship values $19,250
for the 2008-2009 academic year. It is created by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
(PSEPC) to encourage
graduate research in support of its mandate, which is to enhance the safety and
security of Canadians in their physical and cyber
environments. These awards are available for those
students who are studying and conducting research in the area of Emergency
Management (EM). This
includes work in the areas of one or more of the four pillars of Emergency Management; mitigation,
preparedness, response and recovery. Studies focused on the all hazards approach with regard to EM
are encouraged, as are
studies in cyber security, disaster management, and critical infrastructure
protection and assurance. He is the second recipient of this prestigious award after Yu Li (2007-2008)
from our group. Congratulations! top
Prof. Li appointed Guest Professor of Sichuan University (June 2008)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Guest Professor of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Sichuan University was ranked the top tenth university in China last year. Prof. Li will work with the
colleagues in the research areas of remote sensing and spatial information science at the State Key
Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University. top
Prof. Li serves as Guest Editor for Marine Geodesy special issue (May 2008)
Professor Jonathan Li has been invited to serve as Guest Editor for a special issue (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2009)
of Marine Geodesy , an international journal of ocean surveys, mapping, and sensing. The special issue is
entitled Coastal and Marine Remote Sensing for Change Detection. All invited and contributed
manuscripts must be received by April 1, 2009. The PDF-format Call for Papers of this special issue can
be downloaded here. top
Prof. Li and his co-authors received the 2008 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS (April 2008)
Dr. Li has been informed by the ASPRS President, Prof. Marguerit Madden, that he and his co-authors,
Dr. Rifaat Abdalla, Dr. C. Vincent Tao, and Dr. Qiuming Cheng at York University, Canada, are the 2nd
place recipients of the 2008 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS for their journal paper entitled
"A network-centric modeling approach for infrastructure interdependency", which
appeared in the June
2007 edition of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS, 73(6), 681-690). The award
consists of $300 cash and a hand-engrossed certificate. Named after the well-known world's leader in
GIS software and solutions, the ESRI Award is one of the most prestigious and recognized prizes given
to researchers inGeomatics/GIS community today. The award presentation will take place at the
American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2008 Annual Conference in
Portland, Oregon, April 30th, 2008. ASPRS is the largest scientific and technological association in the
areas of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and geographic information science with over 7,000
members aronud the world. top
Xiangyu Si received 2008 Ontario Graduate Scholarships (March 2008)
PhD student Xiangyu Si has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) with a total amount of
$15,000 for the academic year of 2008-2009. As the recipients of OGS, he will be also awarded the UW
President's Graduate Scholarship valued at up to $10,000/year. Congratulations! top
Prof. Dr. Li appointed Vice Chair of ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery (February 2008)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Vice Chair of the Commission on Mapping from Satellite
Imagery, International Cartographic Association (ICA) . He will work together with Prof. Xiaojun Yang
(Chair) from Florida State University, USA for the term of 2008-2011. The details about this ICA
Commission can be found from its website. top
New book on Geospatial Technology for Emergency Response published (January 2008)
A new book on Geospatial Information Technology for Emergency Response, co-edited by Geomatics
Professor Dr. Jonathan Li at the University of Waterloo and GIS Professor Dr. Sisi Zlatanova at Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands, has been recently published by Taylor & Francis. The book
(ISBN-10: 0415422477 and ISBN-13: 978-0415422475) is Volume 6, of the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Book Series and consists of six parts with a total of 17
chapters. top
Faranak Amirsalari successfully passed her MES thesis defense (January 2008)
After two-year efforts, Faranak Amirsalari successfully passed her MES thesis defense on January 9,
2008. Her thesis title is Investigation of Correlation between Remotely Sensed Impervious Surfaces and
Chloride Concentrations. Her profound knowledge and excellent presentation helped her win the good
evaluation from examiners, Dr. Bill Boody (Research Scientist, Environment Canada), Dr. Claude
Duguay and Dr. Alex Brenning (Professors at the Department of Geography). Her supervisor, Professor
Jonathan Li chaired the thesis defense. top
Prof. Dr. Li appointed Editorial Board member of AJEST (January 2008)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed the member of Editorial Board of the African Journal of
Environmental Science and Technology(AJEST). AJEST (ISSN 1996-0786) is published monthly
(one volume per year) by Academic Journals. All articles are peer-reviewed. top
Prof. Dr. Li appointed Editorial Board member of Sensors Journal (December 2007)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed the member of International Advisory Editorial Board for
Remote Sensing of Sensors Journal. Sensors ISSN: 1424-8220 (Online), ISSN: 1424-8239 (CD-ROM),
CODEN: SENSC9. Sensors journal is a peer-refereed scientific journal, published online monthly
(since 2001) at http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/ by Molecular Diversity Preservation International
(MDPI, http://www.mdpi. org), Basel, Switzerland. Impact Factor: 1.373 in 2006; 1.208 in 2005;
0.990 in 2004 . top
Xiangyu Si won 2007 OARS Graduate Research Award (November 2007)
Xiangyu Si, a PhD student at the RSGTech Lab, received a 2007 OARS Graduate Research Award at
the 35th Annual General Meeting of the Ontario Association of Remote Sensing (OARS), November 6,
2007 at the International Conference Centre, Ryerson University in Toronto. The Award is sponsored by
Spatial Geo-Link Limited in Toronto this year, including a certificate and $500 cash. top
Yu Li receives Public Safety Canada Research Fellowship (August 2007)
PhD student Yu Li has been selected as a recipient for one of the total eight of the Public Safety Canada
Research Fellowships in honour of Stuart Nesbitt White,. This research fellowship values $19,250 for the
2007-2008 academic year. It is created by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC)
to encourage
graduate research in support of its mandate, which is to enhance the safety and security of
Canadians in their physical and cyber
environments. These awards are available for those students who
are studying and conducting research in the area of Emergency
Management (EM). This includes work in
the areas of one or more of the four pillars of Emergency Management; mitigation,
preparedness,
response and recovery. Studies focused on the all hazards approach with regard to EM are encouraged,
as are
studies in cyber security, disaster management, and critical infrastructure protection and
assurance. top
Prof. Dr. Li invited to attend Digital Watershed Workshop in China (July 2007)
Professor Jonathan Li has been invited by the Centre of Water resource Research, Sichuan University
and Institute of Digital China, Peking University, as a remote sensing expert to attend a special workshop
on Digital Watershed and Upper Yangtze and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological and Environmental Change
Monitoring. This workshop, focusing on digital watershed, digital region, ecological and environmental
changes, climate change, key hydropower projects, will be held in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China, August
20-21. top
Special Issue "Wireless and Web GIS" published on PE&RS (June 2007)
The special issue entitled "Wireless and Web GIS" has been co-edited by Professor Jonathan Li, Guest
Editor, together with Professor Bo Huang at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and published on Volume
73, Number 6, http://www.asprs.org/publications/pers/2007journal/june/index.html
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing(PE&RS),the official journal of the American Society
for Photogrammetry and RemoteSensing(ASPRS). The eight papers included in this special issue
represent the recent efforts of many of the researchers who have been involved in the development of
web and wireless GIS technologies over the past decade. top
Yu Li won Best Poster Award at Gi4DM2007 (May 2007)
PhD student Yu Li wins the Best Poster Award for his poster presentation "A fuzzy relational road
extraction method for supporting effective evacuation planning" given at the Joint CIG/ISPRS
Conference on Geomatics for Disaster and Risk Management held in Toronto, May 23-25. top
New book on disaster management and geomatics (May 2007)
Natural disasters have caused a large number of victims and significant social and economic losses in
the last few years. The risk prevention and disaster management sector needs drastic measures and
improvements in order to decrease damage and save livesof
inhabitants. Geomatics professor Jonathan
Li has co-edited a new book that describes effective use of satellite positioning, remote
sensing, and
GIS in disaster monitoring and management. (Faculty of Environmental Studies e-newsletter, July 18,
2007 - Issue 31). top
Prof. Mingsheng Liao of Wuhan University visits UW (May 2007)
On May 20, 2007, Dr. Mingsheng Liao, Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering
in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMRS), Wuhan University, China, visited the University
of Waterloo. He presented his research work on the D-InSAR and PS-InSAR. Professor Liao expected to
conduct more collaboration with Dr. Li's team at UW in the future in the area of DEM generation and
feature extraction from InSAR data acquired by German 1 m resolution TerraSAR-X and the upcoming 3
m resolution Canadian Radarsat-2 radar imaging satellite. Professor Liao holds a B.Eng. degree in
electronic engineering from Wuhan University in 1982, a M.Sc. degree in electronics and information
engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan) in 1985, and a Ph.D. degree
in photogrammetry and remote sensing from Wuhan University in 2000. His research interests include
(1) remote sensing image processing and analysis, (2) algorithms for interferometric SAR, (3) Integration
and fusion of multi-source spatial Information, and applications of remote sensing data. top
Prof.Dr.Li won 2006 MAD Award (May 2007)
Prof. Dr. Li has been selected as the winner of the MAD Award, which is presented by the company to
stimulate authorship in
GEOMATICA in the field of Orthophotography,Photogrammetry and Surveying.
Papers were judged for originality, practical value,
conciseness, clarity of expression and interest. The
paper titled DEM Generation and Data Quality Assessment for Glacial Topography,published in Volume
60, No.1,2006, and co-authored by Suli Zhang, Jie Shan and Jim Peterson was judged to meet all of the
criteria.
The awards will be presented at the Joint CIG/ISPRS Conference during the Gala dinner at the
6:30pm on Thursday, May 24, in the
Harbour Ballroom, at the westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto. top
Learning about mobile mapping (March 2007)
Mobile mapping technology can be used by emergency services, utilities, census workers, field
biologists, and the military to take
inventories of assets, to complete inspections, and to report
incidents such as car accidents. Geography professor Jonathan Li, who
arrived at UW in January,
has co-edited a new book that describes recent developments in mobile mapping, which uses platforms
such as satellites, aircraft, road vehicles, ships, and even individual people, to gather data. (Faculty of
Environmental Studies
e-newsletter, March 23, 2007 - Issue 29). top
Yu Li and Xiangyu Si received 2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarships (March 2007)
PhD students Yu Li and Xiangyu Si have been recently awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
with a total amount of
$15,000 each for the academic year of 2007-2008. As the recipients of OGS, both
of them will be also awarded the UW President's
Graduate Scholarship valued at up to $10,000/year.
Congratulations! top
Yu Li won first place of 2007 AOLS graduate student poster competition (February 2007)
PhD student Yu Li wins the First Place Prize for his poster presentation "Building Extraction From High
Resolution Satellite Imagery
Using a VGA-Based Fuzzy Segmentation Method", given at Graduate
Student Poster Competition during the 115h Annual General
Meeting of AOLS, held in Ottawa, February
21-23. top
Prof. Dr. Li appointed Associate Editor of GEOMATICA (January 2007)
Professor Jonathan Li has been appointed Associate Editor of GEOMATICA, the official journal of the
Canadian Institute of Geomatics
(CIG), in the area of remote sensing and geographic information systems.
His term starts from the year 2007. top |
