Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective

1          Land change modeling: status and challenges

Ting Liu and Xiaojun Yang

2          Long-Term change dynamics using Landsat archive for the Region of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada

Anqi Fu, Saied Pirasteh and Jonathan Li

3          Modeling the effects of land use change and climate change on stream flow using GIS and hydrological model

Maochuan Hu, Bin He, Pingping Luo, Kaoru Takara and Weili Duan

4          Support vector machines for land cover mapping from remote sensor imagery

Dee Shi and Xiaojun Yang

5          Digital processing of SAR Data and image analysis techniques

Saied Pirasteh, Hojjat O. Safari and Somayeh Mollaee6          Development of a new wetness index based on RADARSAT-1 ScanSAR data



Quazi K. Hassan and Charles P.A. Bourque

7          Mapping sea ice from satellite SAR imagery

Linlin Xu and Jonathan Li

8          Modelling shallow landslide risk using GIS and a distributed hydro-geotechnical model

Pingping Luo, Apip, Bin He, Kaoru Takara, Weili Duan, Maochuan Hu and Daniel Nover

9          Mapping coastal erosion risk in the southern Red River Delta, Vietnam

Mizue Murooka, Yasuhiro Kuwahara and Shigeko Haruyama

10        An integrated model for assessing carbon dioxide emissions considering climate change mitigation and flood risk adaptation interaction

Kumiko Nakamichi, Yoshiki Yamagata and Hajime Seya11        Glaciological studies at Pasterze Glacier (Austria) based on aerial photographs

Viktor Kaufmann, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Gerhard Karl Lieb, Heinz Slupetzky and Michael Avian

 12        Grassland productivity simulation: integrating remote sensing and an ecosystem process modelYuhong He, Zhangbao Ma and Xulin Guo

13        Landscape ecological mapping for biodiversity evaluation using airborne laser data

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Dr. Jonathan Li is currently Professor of Geomatics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD degree in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Li's research interests lie mainly in the areas of remote sensing and geographical information science. The focus is placed on use of the-state-of-art Earth observation and mobile mapping systems to derive spatial and attribute information to support effective urban-suburban planning and environmental management activities; to extract geometric information of urban structures for developing theories and models of urban morphology; to detect land use and land cover changes to study spatiotemporal dynamics and consequences of urbanization as a major form of global changes. He has been a guest editor for Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing. He is currently serving as Vice Chair of ICA Commission on Mapping from Remote Sensor Images (2011-2015). He is co-author of more than 190 scientific papers and 5 books.

Dr. Yang is a tenured faculty member with t the Florida State University, USA. He received higher education from China, Holland, and USA. Dr. Yang's research interest includes the development of remote sensing and geospatial techniques to support geographic inquiries in the urban and environmental domains. He has done research for NASA and received competitive grants from NSF, EPA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Yang has authored or co-authored more than 90 publications including five books by Springer, CRC/Taylor Francis and John Wiley. He has been a guest editor for Environmental Management, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Photogrammetrical Engineering and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation