University of South Florida

2000	Ph.D.	Cartography & Geographic Information Systems Chinese Academy of Sciences jointed with UC Berkeley
1985	M.Sc.	Forest Management, Remote Sensing in Forestry Nanjing Forestry University (NFU), Nanjing, China
1982	B.Sc.	Forestry Nanjing Forestry University (NFU), Nanjing, China

GEO 3164C	Research Methods in Geography
GIS 4035C	Remote Sensing of the Environment

GIS 6038C	Advanced Remote Sensing
GIS 6039	Readings in Remote Sensing

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research interests are in remote sensing, GIS and spatial statistics with direct applications to natural hazard monitoring, land use/cover change detection, biophysical and biochemical parameters extraction, and terrestrial ecosystem and environmental modeling.  Current research interests are in wildfire detection and monitoring using polar orbiting environmental satellite data (e.g., NOAA/AVHRR and EOS/MODIS data), urban environmental studies using thermal and optical remote sensing data, and invasive species detection and evaluation in a terrestrial ecosystem using hyperspectral data.