UTD School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Profile

Dr. Fang Qiu is currently Associate Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches graduate classes in the Program in Geographic Information Sciences.

He received his B.Sc. from the East China Normal University in 1990, M.Sc. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993, and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2000.

Dr. Qiu’s research and instructional areas are remote sensing digital image processing, spatial analysis and modeling, GIS application software development, and web-based mapping and information processing.

His research work at the University of Texas at Dallas is being funded by major federal government agencies, such as National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), etc.

Dr. Qiu has also served as a reviewer for numerous academic journals, book publishers, and as a panelist for National Science Foundation proposal review.

Past Work Experience

2000-2006: Assistant Professor, Program in Geographic Information Sciences, School of
Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
1996-2000: Research Associate and Instructor, NASA Affiliated Research Center at the Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
1994-1996: Director and Certified Instructor, Arc/Info Technical Consulting and
Training Center of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1993-1994: Research Associate, National Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Awards

“Best Web Application” Award (3rd place), ESRI International Conference, 2006.
"Course Development for Online Instruction” Award from UTD Center for Online Learning and Technology, 2002.

Professional Organizations

Member, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Life Member, Association of Chinese Professional in GIS - Abroad (CPGIS)

Courses

selected Publications

Cooper, J. R. and F. Qiu, 2006, Expediting and Standardizing Stone Artifact Refitting Using a Computerized Suitability Model. Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 33, 987-998.

Qiu, F., M. Abdelsalam, and P. Thakkar, 2006, Spectral Analysis of ASTER Data Covering
Part of Neoproterozoic Allaqi-Heiani Suture, Southern Egypt, Journal of African Earth
Sciences (Special issue on Remote Sensing Applications to Geological Problems of Africa),
Vol. 44, No. 2, 169–180

Xie, Z., and F. Qiu, 2005, Issues on the Use of Variogram-Based Feature Vectors in Content
Based Image Retrieval. The Florida Geographer, Vol. 36, 41-60

Qiu, F., J. Berglund, J.R. Jensen, P. Thakkar and D. Ren, 2004, Speckle Noise Reduction for SAR Imagery Using a Local Adaptive Median Filter, GIScience and Remote Sensing , Vol.
41, No. 3, 224-266.

Qiu, F. and J.R. Jensen, 2004, Opening the Black Box of Neural Networks for Remote
Sensing Image Classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 25, No. 9, 1749-
1768.

Qiu, F., K. Woller and R. Briggs, 2003, Modeling Urban Population Growth from Remotely
Sensed Imagery and TIGER GIS Road Data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing, Vol. 69, No. 9, September, 2003, 1031-1042.

Jensen, J.R., F. Qiu, and K. Patterson, 2001, A Neural Network Image Interpretation System to Extract Rural and Urban Land Use and Land Cover Information from Remote Sensor Data,GeoCarto International, A Multi-disciplinary Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vol. 16. No. 1, 19-28.

Jensen, J.R., F. Qiu and M. Ji, 1999, Predictive Modeling of Coniferous Forest Age Using
Statistical and Artificial Neural Network Approaches Applied to Remote Sensing Data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 20, No. 14, 2805-2822

Updated: October 18, 2006