SCHOOL OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, Peking University

Research Area

DATE：2018-05-24

Infomation
Name:	Shihong Du
Title:	Associate Professor
Phone:	010-62750294
Position:
Email:	smilegis@163.com

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2001.09--2004.07	Ph.D.	Cartography and Geographic Information System, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
1998.09--2001.07	M.S.	Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan China
1994.09--1998.07	B.S.	Cartography, Wuhan University, Wuhan China

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
2007.08--to now	Associate Professor, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China
2006.08--2007.07	Lecturer, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China
2004.06--2006.07	Postdoctoral research, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China
2009.05--2010.05	Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2015.07--2015.08	Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1. Award for New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2010 2. Beijing Nova Program, 2009 3. Second Place Award, National Science and Technology Progress in Surveying and Mapping, 2008 4. The First Place Paper Award, Annual Conference of China Association for GIS, 2004 5. The Third Place Paper Award, Annual Conference of China Association for GIS, 2003

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
1. Spatial data analysis and applications (2006-present) 2. Automatic interpretation of remotely sensed images (2006- present) 3. Remote Sensing image processing practice (2011- present)

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Member, The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences 2. Member, China Association for Geographic Information Society 3. Member of BOD, Committee on Spatial Statistics, Chinese Association for Applied Statistics 4. Member, Editorial Board of Geography and Geographic Information Science 5. Invited Editor, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
1. Understanding spatial-scene information using spatial relations and semantics. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41471315), 2015-2018. (Du, Co-PI) 2. Multi-scale spatial relations: theory and practice, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41171297), 2012-2015. (Du, PI) 3. Monitoring urban landscape ecology with high spatial resolution remotely sensed images, National Science and Technology Major Projects: High Resolution Earth Observation Systems (E0203/1112-06), 2011-2012. (Du, PI) 4. Scale-dependent query and analysis of multi-scale spatial data, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2009AA12Z209), 2010-2011. (Du, PI) 5. On the uncertain issues and scale effects of spatial relations between image objects, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40801190), 2009-2011. (Du, PI) 6. Representing and composing direction relations between uncertain regions, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20070001054), 2008-2011. (Du, PI) 7. Automatic matching of remotely sensed images based on spatial relations, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2004036029), 2005-2006. (Du, PI)

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY

1. Understanding spatial-scene information using spatial relations and semantics. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41471315), 2015-2018. (Du, Co-PI)
2. Multi-scale spatial relations: theory and practice, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41171297), 2012-2015. (Du, PI)
3. Monitoring urban landscape ecology with high spatial resolution remotely sensed images, National Science and Technology Major Projects: High Resolution Earth Observation Systems (E0203/1112-06), 2011-2012. (Du, PI)
4. Scale-dependent query and analysis of multi-scale spatial data, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2009AA12Z209), 2010-2011. (Du, PI)
5. On the uncertain issues and scale effects of spatial relations between image objects, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40801190), 2009-2011. (Du, PI)
6. Representing and composing direction relations between uncertain regions, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20070001054), 2008-2011. (Du, PI)
7. Automatic matching of remotely sensed images based on spatial relations, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2004036029), 2005-2006. (Du, PI)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS or CHAPTERS 1. Du, S., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Fuzzy description and combined reasoning about spatial relations. Beijing: Science Press, 2007. 2. Du, S. Multi-scale spatial relations: theory and practice. Beijing: Science Press, 2014. 3. Guo, L., Du, S., Haining, R. Cultural determinants of landuse – land cover change: a case study from Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, P. R. China. Land Management in Marginal Mountain Regions: Adaption and Vulnerability to Global Change. Editors: Saxena K. G., Liang L., Tanaka K., Takahashi S. BISHEN SINGH MAHENDRA PAL SINGH, 2012, pp. 83-88. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (Corresponding Author, Selected from >=70) Spatio-temporal statistics with applications in environmental sciences 1. Song, J., Du, S., Feng, X. The relationships between landscape compositions and land surface temperature: Quantifying their resolution sensitivity with spatial regression models. Landscape and urban planning, 2014, 123: 145–157. 2. Du, S., Wang, Q., Guo, L. Spatially varying relationships between land-cover change and driving factors at multiple sampling scales. Journal of Environmental Management, 2014, 137: 101–110. 3. Guo, L., Du, S., Haining, R., Zhang, L. Global and local indicators of spatial association between points and polygons: a study of land use change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2013, 21(1): 384–396. Intelligent understanding of geospatial data 4. Guo, Z., Du, S. Exploring GIS knowledge to improve building extraction and change detection from VHR imagery in complex urban areas. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 2015, (in press) 5. Zhang, X., Du, S., Wang, Y.-C. Semantic classification of heterogeneous urban scenes using intra-scene feature similarity and inter-scene semantic dependency. IEEE Jounral of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015, (in press) 6. Du, S., Zhang, F., Zhang, X. Semantic classification of urban buildings combining VHR image and vector data: a random forest approach. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2015, 105: 107-109. 7. Zhang, F., Du, S., Guo, Z. Extracting municipal solid waste dumps based on high resolution images. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(8): 2024-2030. Qualitative spatial knowledge representation and mining 8. Du, S., Feng, C.-C. Integrative representation and inference of qualittive locations about points, lines and polygons. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2015, (in press) 9. Wang, W., Du, S. Polygonal clustering analysis using multilevel graph-partition. Transactions in GIS, 2014, (in press) 10. Du, S. Analyzing topological changes for structural shape simplification. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2014, 25(4): 316–332. 11. Du, S., Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a topology-based model. Transactions in GIS, 2014, 18(4): 604–631. 12. Du, S., Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a direction-based model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013, 41: 151–166. 13. Zhang, F., Du, S., Guo, Z. Extracting municipal solid waste dumps based on high resolution images. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(08): 2024–2030. 14. Du, S., Wang, Q., Guo, L. Modeling scale dependences of topological relations between lines and regions induced by reduction of attributes. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(11): 1649–1686. 15. Du, S., Guo, L., Wang, Q. Scale-explicit model for checking directional consistency in multi-resolution spatial data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(3): 465–485. 16. Du, S., Guo, L., Qin, Q. Modeling and querying approximate direction relations. ISPRS Journal Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2010, 65(4): 328–340. 17. Guo, L., Du, S. Deriving topological relations between regions from direction relations. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2009, 20(6): 368–384. 18. Du, S., Guo, L., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Efficiently computing and deriving topological relation matrices between complex regions with broad boundaries. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2008, 63(6): 593–609. 19. Du, S., Guo, L., Wang, Q. A model for describing and deriving direction relations between overlapping and contained regions. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(14): 2928–2949. 20. Du, S., Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Evaluating structural and topological consistency of complex regions with broad boundaries in multi-resolution spatial databases. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(1): 52–68. 21. Du, S., Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Reasoning about topological relations between regions with broad boundaries. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2008, 47(2): 219–232. 22. Du, S., Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Description of combined spatial relations between broad boundary regions based on rough set. In: E. Corchado et al. (Eds.): Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4224, pp. 729–737, 2006. 23. Du, S., Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Li, B. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations I: A Unified Fuzzy 9-Intersection Model. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y.S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1261–1273, 2005. 24. Du, S., Wang, Q., Qin, Q., Yang, Y. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations II: Computation Methods and Examples. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y. S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1274–1279, 2005. 25. Du, S., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Definitions of natural-language spatial relations: combining topology and directions. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2006, 9(1): 58–67.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS or CHAPTERS
1. Du, S., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Fuzzy description and combined reasoning about spatial relations. Beijing: Science Press, 2007.
2. Du, S. Multi-scale spatial relations: theory and practice. Beijing: Science Press, 2014.
3. Guo, L., Du, S., Haining, R. Cultural determinants of landuse – land cover change: a case study from Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, P. R. China. Land Management in Marginal Mountain Regions: Adaption and Vulnerability to Global Change. Editors: Saxena K. G., Liang L., Tanaka K., Takahashi S. BISHEN SINGH MAHENDRA PAL SINGH, 2012, pp. 83-88.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding Author, Selected from >=70)
Spatio-temporal statistics with applications in environmental sciences
1. Song, J., Du, S.*, Feng, X. The relationships between landscape compositions and land surface temperature: Quantifying their resolution sensitivity with spatial regression models. Landscape and urban planning, 2014, 123: 145–157.
2. Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Guo, L. Spatially varying relationships between land-cover change and driving factors at multiple sampling scales. Journal of Environmental Management, 2014, 137: 101–110.
3. Guo, L., Du, S.*, Haining, R., Zhang, L. Global and local indicators of spatial association between points and polygons: a study of land use change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2013, 21(1): 384–396.

Intelligent understanding of geospatial data
4. Guo, Z., Du, S*. Exploring GIS knowledge to improve building extraction and change detection from VHR imagery in complex urban areas. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 2015, (in press)
5. Zhang, X., Du, S.*, Wang, Y.-C. Semantic classification of heterogeneous urban scenes using intra-scene feature similarity and inter-scene semantic dependency. IEEE Jounral of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015, (in press)
6. Du, S.*, Zhang, F., Zhang, X. Semantic classification of urban buildings combining VHR image and vector data: a random forest approach. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2015, 105: 107-109.
7. Zhang, F., Du, S.*, Guo, Z. Extracting municipal solid waste dumps based on high resolution images. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(8): 2024-2030.
Qualitative spatial knowledge representation and mining
8. Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C. Integrative representation and inference of qualittive locations about points, lines and polygons. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2015, (in press)
9. Wang, W., Du, S*. Polygonal clustering analysis using multilevel graph-partition. Transactions in GIS, 2014, (in press)
10. Du, S*. Analyzing topological changes for structural shape simplification. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2014, 25(4): 316–332.
11. Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a topology-based model. Transactions in GIS, 2014, 18(4): 604–631.
12. Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a direction-based model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013, 41: 151–166.
13. Zhang, F., Du, S.*, Guo, Z. Extracting municipal solid waste dumps based on high resolution images. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(08): 2024–2030.
14. Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Guo, L. Modeling scale dependences of topological relations between lines and regions induced by reduction of attributes. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(11): 1649–1686.
15. Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q. Scale-explicit model for checking directional consistency in multi-resolution spatial data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(3): 465–485.
16. Du, S.*, Guo, L., Qin, Q. Modeling and querying approximate direction relations. ISPRS Journal Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2010, 65(4): 328–340.
17. Guo, L., Du, S*. Deriving topological relations between regions from direction relations. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2009, 20(6): 368–384.
18. Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Efficiently computing and deriving topological relation matrices between complex regions with broad boundaries. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2008, 63(6): 593–609.
19. Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q. A model for describing and deriving direction relations between overlapping and contained regions. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(14): 2928–2949.
20. Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Evaluating structural and topological consistency of complex regions with broad boundaries in multi-resolution spatial databases. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(1): 52–68.
21. Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Reasoning about topological relations between regions with broad boundaries. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2008, 47(2): 219–232.
22. Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Description of combined spatial relations between broad boundary regions based on rough set. In: E. Corchado et al. (Eds.): Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4224, pp. 729–737, 2006.
23. Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Li, B. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations I: A Unified Fuzzy 9-Intersection Model. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y.S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1261–1273, 2005.
24. Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Qin, Q., Yang, Y. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations II: Computation Methods and Examples. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y. S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1274–1279, 2005.
25. Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Definitions of natural-language spatial relations: combining topology and directions. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2006, 9(1): 58–67.