| Dr. Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou Associate Professor Department of Geography, San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-4493 current e-mail: mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu Phone number: (619) 594-0205, Office: Storm Hall 326 |
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Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, San Diego State University. He received a B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1991, an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001, all in Geography. His research interests are in Internet mapping and distributed GIS applications, mobile GIS and wireless communication, multimedia cartography and user interface design, and cyberinfrastructure with GRID computing technology. He has applied his research interests in applications such as wildfire mapping, environmental monitoring and management, habitat conservation, K-12 education, and homeland border security. He is co-author of the book, Internet GIS: distributed geographic information services for the Internet and wireless networks, published in 2003 and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geographic Information Sciences since 2008. Tsou was the co-chair of the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Data System Working Group (ESEDWG) Standard Process Group (SPG) from 2004 to 2007. Tsou was the 2007-2008 Chair of the Cartographic Specialty Group in the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and the current Webmaster for the Geographic Information Science and System (GISS) Specialty Group in AAG. He received the 2004 Outstanding Faculty Award at San Diego State University. Dr. Tsou was listed in Marquis Publishing Who's Who in America in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and was appointed by the National Academy of Science in 2006 to serve on the committee on “Research Priorities for the USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science”. In 2007, Tsou created and maintained an interactive Web-based mapping services for San Diego Wildfires 2007 (http://map.sdsu.edu) and his efforts have been recognized by the AAG newsletters and the San Diego Union Tribune (newspaper).
EDUCATION
C.V. Curriculum Vitae (HTML-format)
C.V. (MS Word-format download)
ON-LINE COURSES INFORMATION
GEOG 104 GIScience and Spatial Reasoning (http://map.sdsu.edu/geog104/) (General Education Level GIS course)
GEOG 583 Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices. (including on-line lecture notes and lab exercises instructions).
GEOG 581 Cartographic Design ( http://map.sdsu.edu/geog581 ) (including lecture notes and lab exercises instructions).
RESEARCH WEB SITE AND PUBLICATION DOWNLOAD
HTTP://MAP.SDSU.EDU (San Diego Wildfire 2007 Interactive Web Mapping)
NASA ARC Project: Http://map.sdsu.edu/arc
Mobile GIS: http://map.sdsu.edu/mobilegis
Internet GIS book website: http://map.sdsu.edu/gisbook
NASA REASoN project: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/reason
NSF-ATE GIS Education / GeoTech Center project: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech
San Diego Emergency Response GIS Data Portal: http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/metadataexplorer
San Diego Bay Watershed/Water quality (Common Ground) project: http://www.sdbay.sdsu.edu
Non-Point Source Pollution Project: http://www.nps.sdsu.edu
Ph.D. Dissertation Title: (2001, University of Colorado at Boulder)
A Dynamic Architecture for Distributing Geographic Information Services on the Internet.
Click here to see the abstract and download the Full dissertation in Word.
RECENT BOOK
Internet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Networks, authored by Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng and Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Published by Wiley. 2003. ( http://map.sdsu.edu/gisbook/ )
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Movies (Mobile GIS applications)
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Movie Download (WMV format) |
Movie Download MPEG
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RECENT PROJECTS AND AWARDS
2004 Outstanding Faculty Award, San Diego State University (This award is in recognition as most influential university professor in the academic career of the Outstanding Graduating Senior).
2006-2007: Appointed by the
National Academy of Science in 2006 to serve on the committee on “Research
Priorities for the USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science”
and completed the NAS report (http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12004
) in 2007.
2004-2008 Elected as the Co-Chair of the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Data System Working Group (ESEDWG) Standard Process Group (SPG) in 2004. The Standards Process Group (SPG) is to advance the productive use of data systems standards within the NASA ESE and to direct the adoption of data systems standards relevant to data stewardship and the interoperation of ESE data systems. http://spg.gsfc.nasa.gov/
2009
PI (Tsou). International Community Foundation.
“Baja-Eco-Info Mapping Tool:
Mapping Conservation and Threats for the Gulf of California”, $11,500. (nine
months, Jan 1, 2009 – August 31, 2009).
2008
PI (Tsou). San Diego County, Office of
Education. “Geographic Information System
for the Splash Station”, $3,784, (1.5 months, July 15, 2008 – August 31,
2008). Completed
2008
Senior Personnel (Tsou), National
Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program:
National Geospatial Technology Center (GeoTech
Center) Project Period: 09/1/08-2008/30/2012.
Total Budget: $4,999,997.
PI: Dr. Philip Davis (Del Mar College, Texas).
SDSU Sub-award: $180,000
(four years). Tsou is the project
manager for the SDSU Sub-award.
2006
PI (Tsou).
San Diego Coast Keeper.
“Multimedia GIS Research Project”. $9,125. (seven months – Jan 10, 2006 – August
31, 2006). Completed.
2004-2006: CO-PI: City of San Diego. “The San Diego Watershed Common Grounds Project PI: Karen Henry at City of San Diego, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program. Total funding found: $1 million. SDSU Funding Amount: $ 400,000. (30 months, started from September 2004). http://www.sdbay.sdsu.edu
2003- 2007 CO-PI: NASA REASON Project: “A Border Decision Support System Driven by Remotely Sensed Data Inputs”. PI: Dr. Douglas Stow. I am the Liaison to the SEEDS consortium. Funding Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Funding Amount: $1,837,771. (Five years).2002: CO-PI: “Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Image Servers for Environmental Monitoring and Management” with Professor Eric Frost (Department of Geological Science, SDSU). Affiliated Research Center (ARC), Commercial Remote Sensing Program 2001, NASA. Fall, 2002. http://map.sdsu.edu/mobilegis
Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 Faculty Fellowship, the Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering (ECCSE) at San Diego State University. The ECCSE is part of the Education, Outreach, & Training Thrust of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and San Diego Super Computer Center (SDSC) Partnerships. URL:http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/faculty-fellows/spring2002/index.html
2000: PI: “Web-based Geospatial Information Services and Analytic Tools for Natural Habitat Conservation and Management”. Affiliated Research Center (ARC), Commercial Remote Sensing Program 2000, NASA. $41,000. Fall, 2001. NASA ARC Project: Http://map.sdsu.edu/arc
2000: PI: The 2000-01 Faculty Development Program Award at San Diego State University. “Developing a Dynamic Architecture for Internet Mapping and Distributed Geographic Information Services” $5000.
2000: PI: The 2000-01 Grand-in-Aid Award at San Diego State University. “Software agent for GIServices”, $8000. http://map.sdsu.edu/geoagent
TV-NEWS and Newspaper Interview:
Voice of San Diego. "SDSU Professor Maps the Future", Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005 http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2005/11/22/education/import-278.txt
KUSI Channel 9 News (Morning News), San Diego, November 30, 2005.
The highlights of CESAR lab and the visualization of San Diego Wildfire 2003 in Google Earth Demo. at San Diego State University. (WMV format).
(Click Here to download or view the Video) WMV format
KUSI-9News,
San Diego, June 20, 2002
The introduction of GIS research with Mobile devices, GPS, and remote sensing technologies at the Department of Geography, San Diego State University. (MPEG Movie Format)
(Click Here to download or view the Video) MPEG format.
University at Buffalo, Alumni Association Profile: http://www.alumni.buffalo.edu/drpl/node/1958
ACM TechNews, Volume 7, Issue 870: Wednesday, November 23, 2005. (Brief article cited from the Voice of San Diego). http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/1123w.html#item9
SDSUniverse: Monday, November 17, 2003, "Tracking the Fires", Geography Department Web Site Provides Key Source to Firestorm Survivors. http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=11596
SDSUniverse: Monday, November 28, 2005, "A Spatial Look at the World." http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=38444
Are you looking for the overview of Internet GIS?
Here is my recent on-line paper published on the GIS@development magazine.
Tsou, 2004, Present Reality and the Future of Internet GIS. at GIS@development, Vol. 8(7), pp. 29-32.http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/years/2004/july/29.asp
Tsou, 2005. Recent Development of Internet GIS at GIS@development: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/gis/techgis_002pf.htm
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/years/2005/oct/webgis_tsou44_1.htm
Are you looking for the explanation of cyberspace?
Here is my first paper about the cyberspace and geography (1995). (a very old paper written when I was a graduate student at SUNY-Buffalo. But it is a very interesting paper for me).
Dr. Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou. Chinese name:
鄒明祥. Associate Professor. San Diego State University.
Department of Geography.
This is one of my favorite stories: "A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void".... written by William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984.
Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou ( Ming Tsou ) Homepage.
