AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Qihao Weng is the Director of the Center for Urban and
Environmental Change and a professor of geography at Indiana
State University. He was a visiting NASA senior fellow (2008–
2009). Dr. Weng is also a guest/adjunct professor at Peking
University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Wuhan University, and Beijing Normal University, and a guest research
scientist at Beijing Meteorological Bureau, China. He received
his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia in 1999.
In the same year, he joined the University of Alabama as an
assistant professor. Since 2001, he has been a member of the faculty in the Department
of Earth and Environmental Systems at Indiana State University, where he has taught
courses on remote sensing, digital image processing, remote sensing–GIS integration,
GIS, and environmental modeling and has mentored 11 doctoral and 10 master
students.
Dr. Weng’s research focuses on remote sensing and GIS analysis of urban
ecological and environmental systems, land use and land cover change, environmental modeling, urbanization impacts, and human–environment interactions. He
is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications and 8
books. Dr. Weng has worked extensively with optical and thermal remote sensing
data and more recently with lidar data, primarily for urban heat island study, land
cover and impervious surface mapping, urban growth detection, image analysis
algorithms, and the integration with socioeconomic characteristics, with financial
support from U.S. funding agencies that include NSF, NASA, USGS, USAID,
NOAA, National Geographic Society, and Indiana Department of Natural
Resources. Dr. Weng was the recipient of the Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial
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Dr. Qihao Weng is the Director of the Center for Urban and
Environmental Change and a professor of geography at Indiana
State University. He was a visiting NASA senior fellow (2008–
2009). Dr. Weng is also a guest/adjunct professor at Peking
University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Wuhan University, and Beijing Normal University, and a guest research
scientist at Beijing Meteorological Bureau, China. He received
his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia in 1999.
In the same year, he joined the University of Alabama as an
assistant professor. Since 2001, he has been a member of the faculty in the Department
of Earth and Environmental Systems at Indiana State University, where he has taught
courses on remote sensing, digital image processing, remote sensing–GIS integration,
GIS, and environmental modeling and has mentored 11 doctoral and 10 master
students.
Dr. Weng’s research focuses on remote sensing and GIS analysis of urban
ecological and environmental systems, land use and land cover change, environmental modeling, urbanization impacts, and human–environment interactions. He
is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications and 8
books. Dr. Weng has worked extensively with optical and thermal remote sensing
data and more recently with lidar data, primarily for urban heat island study, land
cover and impervious surface mapping, urban growth detection, image analysis
algorithms, and the integration with socioeconomic characteristics, with financial
support from U.S. funding agencies that include NSF, NASA, USGS, USAID,
NOAA, National Geographic Society, and Indiana Department of Natural
Resources. Dr. Weng was the recipient of the Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial
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