Tian, Xin Visiting PhD Student Department of Geography & Environmental Management Phone: (519)888-4567, ext. 37035 E-mail: x5tian@uwaterloo.ca

  Research Interests
   • Satellite Radar Interferometry
   • Digital Elevation Model Generation and Validation
   • Surface Deformation Monitoring by D-InSAR Processing

  Education
   • September 2008- present: Visiting Doctoral Candidate in Geomatics, Department of Geography, University of Waterloo
   • September 2007- present: PhD Candidate (Mphil-PhD program) in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan,
      China
   • September 2001-July 2005: B.Eng. in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Work Experience
   • 2005-present: Research Associate, State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing            (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, China
   • 2006: Staff, Proceeding of SPIE 4th International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan,         Oct 31- Nov 2, 2005

    Publications
   • Xin TIAN, Lijun LU, Mingsheng LIAO, Deren LI, etc. (2008)Coherent Target Analysis for Long-term Deformation Monitoring, the
     Dragon Programme Fianl-term ESA Special Puvlication(SP-655) and Proceedings of Dragon Symposium, Beijing.
   • Mingsheng LIAO, Xin TIAN, Qing ZHAO, (2007) "Missions and Applications of TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X", Journal of Geomatics, pp.
     44-46, Apr
   • Mingsheng LIAO, Lijun LU, Xin TIAN, Teng WANG, etc. (2007) Monitoring Urban Subsidence with Advanced InSAR Technique,
     Proceeding of Joint CIG/ISPRS Conference on Geomatics for Disaster and Risk Management, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
   • Xin TIAN, Lijun LU, Mingsheng LIAO, Deren LI, etc. (2007). Monitoring Urban Subsidence with Coherent Target Analysis Method,
     Proceeding of SPIE 5th International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan, 15-17    
     November.
   • Lijun LU, Mingsheng LIAO, Teng WANG and Xin TIAN, (2008) A Multi-step Detection Method for Extraction of Stable Pointwise
     Target in Long Temporal SAR Image Series, Journal of Remote Sensing.( to Appear).

    Awards and Scholarships
  • Joint Doctoral Scholarships, China Scholarship Council, 2008
  • Excellent Graduate student and Kwang-Hua Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2007
  • Excellent Graduate student and second-grade scholarship, Wuhan University, 2006
  • Invigorating Surveying and Mapping through Science and Education Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2003
  • Excellent Undergraduate student and first-grade scholarship, Wuhan University, 2002-2004