Keynote Speakers & Plenary Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing Deren Li
Title: Geometric Information Extraction from SAR and LiDAR
Biography of Speaker:
Prof. Dr.-Ing Deren Li is a scientist in photogrammetry and remote sensing; has dual membership of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering; is a member of the Euro-Asia International Academy of Science; Professor and PhD supervisor of Wuhan University; Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography; and is Chairman of both the Academic Commission of Wuhan University and the National Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS).
He has concentrated on the research and education in spatial information science and technology represented by remote sensing (RS), global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS). His majors are the analytic and digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, mathematical morphology and its application in spatial databases, theories of object-oriented GIS and grid GIS as well as mobile mapping systems, etc.
Prof. Deren Li served as Comm. III and Comm. VI president of ISPRS in 1988-1992 and 1992-1996, worked for CEOS in 2002-2004 and president of Asia GIS Association in 2003-2006. He got Dr.h.c. from ETH, switzerland in 2008
Speaker: Dr.David J. Harding, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Title: NASA Airborne and Space Flight Lidar Mapping Objectives, Missions and Technologies
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. David Harding received his PhD in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1988. Since 1991 he has been a staff scientist in the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA. He conducts research in the topographic expression of land surface processes and the physical properties of vegetation, snow, ice and water, in particular by utilizing airborne and space-based laser altimeter systems. Harding was a member of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Science Team and is now a member of the ICESat-2 Science Definition Team. He is also Study Scientist for the Lidar Surface Topography (LIST) mission. ICESat-2 and LIST are components of NASA's Earth Science Decadal Survey spaceflight mission plan. Harding is PI for the airborne Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-Counting Lidar (SIMPL) and Science Co-PI for the Airborne LIST Simulator (A-LISTS). These instruments, developed through the NASA Instrument Incubator Program, are demonstrating measurement approaches for the ICESat-2 and LIST missions.
Homepage: http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/personal_pages/harding/harding.html
Plenary Speakers
Speaker: Xiaoli Ding, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Title: TCP-InSAR and 3D InSAR
Biography of Speaker:
Prof. Xiaoli Ding obtained his B.Eng. from the Central South University of Metallurgy (now Central South University),
China in 1983 and his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1993. Prof. Ding lectured at the Northeast
University of Technology (now Northeastern University), China and Curtin University, Australia before joining The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University in 1996.
Prof. Ding’s main research interests lie in developing technologies for studying ground and structural deformations,
geohazards, and long-term environmental change. He has gained an international reputation in research in these
areas, especially in developing space borne geodetic technologies such as the Global Positioning System and the
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. His research has led to enhanced technologies that are more effective for
geohazard studies such as landslide and structural health monitoring. Prof. Ding has authored about 300 publications
in these fields of research. He is a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).
Speaker: Jonathan Li, University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: MarineSAR: Integrated RADARSAT Monitoring of Marine Pollution in Canadian Waters
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Jonathan Li is a professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, founding member of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), member of the Water Institute and Director of the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology Lab in the University of Waterloo, Canada. He completed his PhD degree in Geomatics Engineering at the University of Cape Town. Since 1995, Dr. Li has published over 150 papers internationally in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. He is a recipient of the prestigious Talbert Abrams Award (ASPRS, 2011), Ford Bartlett Award (ASPRS, 2011), ESRI Award (ASPRS, 2008), and MDA Award (CIG, 2007). Dr. Li is an IEEE Senior Member, a Professional Engineer licensed with Professional Engineers Ontario, and an Ontario Land Surveyor with the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS). Dr. is Chair of ISPRS ICWG V/I on Land-based Mobile Mapping Systems (2008-2012) and Vice Chair of ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery (2008-2011). Dr. Li is Chair of Scientific Committee of LiDAR and Radar 2011
Speaker: Guoqing Zhou, Old Dominion University, USA
Title: A Novel Power Supply Topology Design for Lidar System based on UAV platform
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Zhou Guoqing earned his Ph.D. from the Remote sensing and Spatial Information Engineering Department of Wuhan University (former Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping) in 1994, and then worked in Tsinghua University as visiting scholar and Beijing Jiaotong University as post-doctoral researcher, and Technical University of Berlin, Germany, as Alexander von Humboldt fellow, and the Ohio State University as postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Zhou is now professor in Old Dominion University. Dr. Zhou has published three books, 200 publications, and serves as Chair, editorial board, editorial advisor of several journals. Dr. Zhou has won five prestigious awards.
Speaker: Zequn Guan, Tongji University, China
Title: Building Recognition and Information Extraction from Very High Resolution SAR Data
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Zequn Guan received his B.SC. degree in remote sensing and mapping from Nanjing University, China, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (now Wuhan University), China, in 1991 and 1996 respectively. He has been a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing and the National Remote Sensing Centre since 1997 and currently is a professor and director at Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. His main research interests lie in remote sensing image interpretation, multi-source remote sensing data fusion and application, spatial data mining and knowledge discovery. During these years Dr. Guan has published three books and over 100 papers in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings
Speaker: Samsung Lim, University of New South Wales, Australia
Title: Full Waveform Lidar Remote Sensing for Forest Inventory in New South Wales, Australia
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Samsung Lim joined the academic staff of the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, in July 2004. His research interests are in Geographic Information Science, Geodetic GPS Network Analysis and Wireless Internet-Based DGPS. He has been appointed a co-principal investigator of the algorithms and software division of Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory (SNAP). Dr Lim was an Associate Professor at the Department of Geomatics Engineering at Inha University, South Korea, where he had been lecturing on GPS theory and practical applications, GIS programming and project management, Satellite Geodesy, Satellite Dynamics, Numerical Analysis and Engineering Mathematics since March 1997. He was appointed Vice Director of the Computation & Information Center at Inha University from 2002 until 2004.
Dr Lim obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 1995. He had worked for three and a half years at the Center for Space Research, the University of Texas at Austin, primarily on the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS). GLAS, part of the Earth Observing System mission, was to make ice sheet elevation measurements over Antarctica and Greenland.
Dr Lim graduated in Mathematics from Seoul National University, South Korea, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1988, and a Master of Arts in 1990 in Dynamical Systems. He was a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, the University of Texas at Austin from 1990 until 1992.
Speaker: Zhenhong Li, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Title: Space-based Radar Interferometry: Geodetic Monitoring of Land Subsidence and Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapour.
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Zhenhong Li received his B.Sc. degree (with distinction) in Geodesy from the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (now Wuhan University), China, in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in GPS, Geodesy, and Navigation from University College London, United Kingdom, in 2005.
He has had over thirteen years of research in Space Geodesy & Remote Sensing (mainly InSAR and GPS) and their geophysical and engineering applications including earthquakes, landslides and city subsidence. He specializes in development of advanced InSAR techniques, especially InSAR atmospheric correction/estimation models for single-pairs and multi-pairs of SAR interferograms.
Dr. Li is an Elected Fellow of the UK Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc), and a Member of the UK NERC Space Geodesy Facilities Steering Committee.
Speaker: Wei Shi, NP Photonics, Inc, USA
Title: High energy pulsed fiber laser transmitters in the C and L band for coherent LIDAR applications
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Wei Shi is Director of Pulsed Fiber Laser & THz Technology at NP Photonics, Inc. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona. He has over 20 years of experience in lasers, nonlinear optics, laser/NLO materials, and optical amplifiers R&D.
Dr. Shi is a pioneer for high power single-frequency pulsed fiber lasers/amplifiers including high SBS-threshold specialty fiber amplifiers. He has been at the forefront of parametric tunable monochromatic THz generation/detection using NLO crystals, solid-state laser/OPO and high power pulsed fiber lasers in MOPA configuration (fiber-based THz sources). He has carried out over $5M SBIR/STTR projects and other US government contracts as PI. He received his PhD from State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials at Shandong University where he was an associate Professor from 1997 to 2001. Dr. Shi serves as program committee of nonlinear optics for Photonics West from 2008 and subcommittee for THz Technologies and Applications of CLEO from 2011. He serves as session chair for Photonics West and CLEO for many times. Dr. Shi is a topic editor of Applied Optics from 2009. He has over 100 journal papers, over 60 international conference presentations and two US patents.
Speaker: Qi Chen, University of Hawaii, USA
Title: Lidar remote sensing of vegetation: the state of the art
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Qi Chen received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 and has been a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since then. His main research interest in remote sensing is lidar data processing and information extraction for airborne sensors as well as satellite and ground-based sensors. He has developed novel algorithms and published extensively on lidar point cloud filtering, bare earth generation and vegetation structural parameters extraction from individual-tree to regional scales using airborne and satellite lidar data. He also organized and presented lidar tutorial workshops for Naval Postgraduate School (2007), ASPRS (2007), US-IALE (2009), and IGARSS (2010).
Speaker: Guoxiang Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Title: Persistent Scatterer SAR Interferometry for Monitoring Regional Subsidence
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Guoxiang Liu received his PhD in Remote Sensing from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China in 2003. From September of 2005 to September of 2006, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin in USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Engineering at the Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China, and an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering at SWJTU. He conducts research on radar interferometry, radargrammetry and digital photogrammetry for mapping regional topography and deformation. He is a member of the Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery of the International Cartographic Association and a member of the ISPRS Inter-Commission Working Group V/I. In recent years, Guoxiang has been actively involved in the development of advanced radar interferometry techniques such as persistent scatterer radar interferometry and the relevant software package development as the PIs for several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) of China. These new processing approaches have been used to detect subsidence caused by groundwater withdrawal in urban areas and along linear structures, and crustal deformation related to earthquakes.
Speaker: Jicang Wu, Tongji University, China
Title: Inverse analysis of coseismic displacements obtained by GPS and InSAR for fault slips of Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Jicang Wu, professor at Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He received PhD in Geodynamics from Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1998. He is specialized in the data processing of GPS and InSAR and especially in the inversion analysis of geodetic data for crustal deformation mechanism, such as plate motion, ground subsidence, and earthquake hazards.
He is an editor committee member of “Journal of Geodesy and Geodynamics”, Council member of Shanghai Geophysical Association, and member of American Geophysical Union.
Speaker: Zhiwei Li，Central-South University,China
Title: Elevation-dependent water vapor interpolator and its application in InSAR atmospheric correction
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Zhiwei Li received his B.Eng. and M.Eng from the Central South University of Technology(now Central South University), China in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China in 2005. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Geomatics at the Central South University, Changsha, China. His main research interests lie in InSAR atmospheric correction, interferogram filtering, and 3D InSAR deformation monitoring. He has published more than 30 paper on InSAR and been PIs for three research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation(NSFC) of China.
Speaker: Bisheng Yang, Wuhan University, China
Title: Dynamic Mapping with Mobile LIDAR
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Bisheng Yang Received his Ph.D degree in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Wuhan University, China in 2002. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in GIS Division, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland from October 2002 to October 2006. He is now a Full Professor in GeoInformatics in State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. His research interests cover 3D modeling and segmentation of mobile LIDAR data, multiple representation and progressive transmission of spatial data, He has published a lot of scientific papers in IJGIS, IJRS, PE&RS.
Speaker: Tao Li, Wuhan University, China.
Title: Ultra High Voltage Power line detection from High Resolution SAR Images
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Tao Li received his PhD degree in Geodesy from Wuhan University, China in 2004. Since 2005, he has been a stuff researcher in GNSS research center of Wuhan university. Now, he is an associate professor and PhD supervisor of Wuhan University. His research interests include GPS data processing, Radar data processing, InSAR data processing, deformation monitoring and so on. Recently, his research interest mainly concentrates on InSAR data processing and its application in geosciences and Industry.
Speaker: Hongchao Fan, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Title: Towards intelligent virtual city: 3D modeling using Laser Scanning data
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Hongchao Fan is now scientific research associate at the Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has been in Germany for almost ten years. He studied geodesy and geoinformatics (in German) at the University of Stuttgart and graduated there with master degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in 2006. He ever worked on Calibration of terrestrial Laser Scanner at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and the Christian Doppler Laboratory, the Vienna University of Technology. From 2007 to 2010 he served as scientific assistant and teaching assistant at the Department of Cartography, the Technical University of Munich. And he received his PhD in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the same university in October, 2010. His research works focus mainly on the 3D City modeling from Laser Scanning data, 3D Generalization and spatiotemporal data analysis.
Speaker: Xiufeng He, Hohai University, China
Title: Integration of InSAR and GPS for Steep-Slope Monitoring at Hydraulic Engineering
Biography of Speaker:
Dr. Xiufeng He received her B.Eng. and M.S. degrees in control and navigation from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and Ph.D. degree in survey engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnics University in 1998. In the period of 1998-1999 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway working in guidance, navigation and control. She worked as a Research Fellow at GPS Center of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2000-2001. Dr. Xiufeng He is currently a Professor and director at Institute of Satellite Navigation and spatial information, Hohai University, China. She conducts research on Global navigation satellite system (GPS, GLONASS), radar interferometry, and deformation monitoring. Dr. Xiufeng He has published two books and over 100 referred papers.
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