Name: Xiang Zhang	Telephone: 18986079721
	E_mail: xiang.zhang@whu.edu.cn	Department:Department of Cartography and Geo-information Engineering
	Supervisors: Master Tutor	Technical Post: Associate Professor
	Research Orientation: Crowd-sourced geo-information, VGI, Geo-visualization, Map generalization

Education Background:

2015-, Associate Professor, Wuhan Univ., China

2013-2014, Postdoc at Wuhan Univ., China

2007-2012，PhD candidate at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Twente Univ., the Netherlands

2005-2007，Master, Wuhan Univ., China

2001-2005，Bachelor, Wuhan Univ., China

Research and Interest:

VGI Integration and Processing

Fitness-for-use of Crowd-sourced Geographic Content

Visualization of big geo-data & Web Cartography

Multi-scale modeling or smooth zooming of geo-information

Teaching:

English for GIS & Cartography (2013-2014)

Principles of Digital Cartography (2014-)

Course Design for Digital Cartography (2014-)

Projects:

Quality Evaluation of Volunteered Geographic Information Using Data Enrichment and Data Matching, NSFC, 2014-2016.

High Performance GIS: Dynamic Web Cartography, MOST-863, 2015-2017.

Achievements:

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai and Jantien Stoter (2016) Inferring complex geographical concepts with implicit geometries using ontologies: A case of peninsulas. AGILE 2016, Book Chapter (to appear)

Tinghua Ai, Xiang Zhang, Qi Zhou and Min Yang (2015) A vector field model to handle the displacement of multiple conflicts in building generalization. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(8): 1310-1331. (SCI)

Tinghua Ai, Min Yang, Xiang Zhang and Jing Tian (2015) Detection and correction of inconsistencies between river networks and contour data by spatial constraint knowledge. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 42(1): 79-93. (SCI)

Xiang Zhang and Tinghua Ai (2015). How to model roads in Open Street Map. A method for evaluating the fitness-for-use of the network for navigation. In: F. Harvey and Y. Leung (eds.), Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis, Advances in Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Geo-information and Cartography, Springer, 143-162. (Book Chapter)

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai, Jantien Stoter, Xi Zhao (2014) Data matching of building polygons at multiple map scales improved by contextual information and relaxation. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 92: 147–163. (SCI)

Tinghua Ai, Qi Zhou, Xiang Zhang*, Yafeng Huang and Mengjie Zhou (2014) A simplification of Ria coastline with geomorphologic characteristics preserved. Marine Geodesy, 37:167–186 (SCI)

Xi Zhao, Alfred Stein, Xiang Zhang, Lian Feng, Xiaoling Chen (2014) Variation analysis of lake extension in space and time from remote satellite images using random sets. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-information, 30: 86-97, 2014. (SCI)

Jantien Stoter, Xiang Zhang, Hanna Stigmar and Lars Harrie (2014) Evaluation in Generalisation. In: D. Burghardt et al. (eds.), Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World, Lecture Notes in Geo-information and Cartography, pp. 259-297. (Chapter in ICA Book Series)

Xiang Zhang, Jantien Stoter, Tinghua Ai, Menno-Jan Kraak and Martien Molenaar (2013) Automated evaluation of building alignments in generalized maps. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(8): 1550-1571. (SCI)

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai, Jantien Stoter, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Martien Molenaar (2013) Building pattern recognition in topographic data: examples on collinear and curvilinear alignments. GeoInformatica, 17(1): 1-33. (SCI)

Qi Zhou, Tinghua Ai, Xiang Zhang (2013) A displacement field model to resolve multiple spatial conflicts. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 42(4): 615-620. (EI)

Xiang Zhang, Xi Zhao, Martien Molenaar, Jantien Stoter, Menno-Jan Kraak, Tinghua Ai (2012) Pattern classification approaches to matching building polygons at multiple scales. In M. Shortis, J. Shi, E. Guilbert (eds.): ISPRS Annals (ISPRS Congress 2012), Melbourne, Vol. I-2, pp. 19-24 (Invited Oral)

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai, and Jantien Stoter (2012). Characterization and detection of building patterns in cartographic data: Two algorithms. In Advances in Spatial Data Handling and GIS, Lecture Notes in Geo-information and Cartography, Springer, pp. 93-107. (Book Chapter)

Xiang Zhang, Jantien Stoter, Tinghua Ai, and Menno-Jan Kraak (2012). Formalization and data enrichment for automated evaluation of building pattern preservation. In Advances in Spatial Data Handling and GIS, Lecture Notes in Geo-information and Cartography, Springer, pp. 109-125. (Book Chapter)

Xi Zhao, Alfred Stein, Xiaoling Chen and Xiang Zhang (2011) Quantification of Extensional Uncertainty of Segmented Image Objects by Random Sets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 49, pp. 2548-2557. (SCI)

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai, and Jantien Stoter (2009) A Voronoi-like model of spatial autocorrelation for characterizing spatial patterns in vector data. In Proceedings of the 2009 Sixth International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams (ISVD’09), pp. 118–126, Washington, DC, USA, 2009. IEEE Computer Society. (EI) (Oral presentation)

Xiang Zhang, Tinghua Ai, and J. Stoter (2008) The evaluation of spatial distribution density in map generalization. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Congress 2008), volume XXXVII. Part B2., pp. 181–188, Beijing. (Oral Presentation)

Xiang Zhang, Jantien Stoter, and Tinghua Ai (2008) Formalization and automatic interpretation of map requirements. In The 11th ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation, p. 12, Montpellier, France. (Oral Presentation)

Tinghua Ai and Xiang Zhang (2007) The aggregation of urban building clusters based on the skeleton partitioning of gap space. In S.I. Fabrikant and M. Wachowicz (eds), In The European Information Society: Leading the Way with Geo-information (AGILE07), Lecture Notes in Geo-information and Cartography, pp. 153–170. Springer, Aalborg, Denmark. (Book Chapter)

Xi Zhao, Xiaoping Pang, Shengli Zhang and Xiang Zhang (2007) Unification and Harmonization in True Color Image City Map. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 10(1): 75-78.