My Research (Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou)
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
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· Internet mapping and distributed GIS applications. |
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· Mobile GIS and wireless communication |
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· Multimedia cartography and user interface design. |
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· Software agents and distributed computing technologies. |
RECENT PROJECTS AND AWARDS
The 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).
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/
CO-PI: National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education Program (NSF-ATE): A Scalable Skills Certification Program in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) PI: Dr. Kendra Jeffcoat at San Deigo Mesa College. Total Funding Amount: $749, 847. (SDSU funding amount: $222,060). (Three years, 2004-2007). http://geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech
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
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).
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/mobilgis
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
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
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.
PI: The 2000-01 Grand-in-Aid Award at San Diego State University. Software agent for GIServices, $8000. http://map.sdsu.edu/geoagent
RECENT Publications (some papers are downloabable)
Scholarly Books
· Peng, Z.R. and Tsou, M. H. (2003). Internet GIS: distributed geographic information services for the Internet and wireless networks. (704 pages, publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Professor Michael Goodchild (elected member of the National Academy of Science) at the UC-Santa Barbara wrote a foreword for this book. Several book reviews were published in related GIS journals. The followings are two examples of the reviews:
Book Review Example #1: In Cartography and Geographic Information Science Vol. 31. No. 1. 2004. by Suzana Dragicevic and Shivanand Balram. Internet GIS is a valuable addition to the field of GIS, providing comprehensive and rigorous theoretical principles supported by practical implementations. Topical, relevant, and pertinent, it will aid GIS researchers, engineers, project managers, as well as the general GIS user. Page 55-57.
Book Review Example #2: In Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring 2004. by Richard E. Klosterman. The book does an impressive job of accomplishing all of these objectives in more than 650 pages of surprisingly readable text . The book will also serve as a marker, reporting on an important stage in the development of software tools for spatially oriented research and professional practice. As a result, this is an important book for anyone interested in the application of advanced information technologies to planning and public affairs. Page 321-322.
Articles in Refereed Journals
· Zhang, T. and Tsou, M.H. (accepted) The Integration of Grid-enabled Internet GIServices and Geographic Semantic Web Technologies. In Special Issue on Distributed GIS, Journal of Geographic Information Science.
· Tsou, M.H., Guo, L., and Howser, T. (accepted). A Web-based Java Framework for Cross-Platform Mobile GIS and Remote Sensing Applications. GIScience & Remote Sensing.
· Tsou, M.H. (2004). Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Map Servers for Environmental Monitoring and Management, (the Special Issue on Mobile Mapping and Geographic Information Systems) in Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 31(3), pp. 153-165.
· Tsou, M.H. (2004). Integrating Web-based GIS and On-line Remote Sensing Facilities for Environmental Monitoring and Management. In special issue on the potential of Web-based GIS, the Journal of Geographical Systems. 6(2), pp. 155-174.
· Tsou, M. H., Guo L., and Stow D. (2003). Web-based Remote Sensing Applications and Java Tools for Environmental Monitoring, Online Journal of Space Communication, No. 3, http://satjournal.tcom.ohiou.edu/issue03/applications.html
· Tsou, M. H. and Buttenfield, B. P. (2002). A Dynamic Architecture for Distributing Geographic Information Services. Transactions in GIS, 6(4), pp. 355-381.
Chapters in Refereed Books
· Tsou, M.H. and Sun, C.H. (submitted). Mobile GIServices Applications in Disaster Management, Book chapter in Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Change in Space and Time. (edited by Drummond, J, Billen, R., Forrest, D. and Joao, Ed. 2006. published by Taylor & Francis. (Innovations in GIS book series).
· Tsou, M.H. (In Press). Bridging the Gap: Connecting Internet-based Spatial Decision Support Systems to the Field-based Personnel with Real time Wireless Mobile GIS applications. Book chapter in Collaborative Geographic Information Systems (Edited by Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragicevic). Idea Group, Inc.
· Tsou, M.H. (2003). Chapter 14: An Intelligent Software Agent Architecture for Distributed Cartographic Knowledge Bases and Internet Mapping Services. In Maps and the Internet, M. Peterson (ed), Elsevier Press, pp. 229-243. (published on behalf of the International Cartographic Association).
· Tsou, M.H. (2002). An Operational Metadata Framework for Searching, Indexing, and Retrieving Distributed Geographic Information Services on the Internet. In Geographic Information Science - Second International Conference GIScience 2002, M. Egenhofer and D. Mark (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2478, Springer, Berlin, pp. 312-333. (Only 24 papers were selected from total 64 international submissions).
· Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P. (1997). A Direct Manipulation Interface for Geographical Information Processing. In: Kraak, M.J. and Melenaar, M. (eds.) Advances in GIS Research II. Taylor & Francis, London, U.K., pp. 905-915
· Tsou, M.H (invited chapter contribution) Chapter 12: Internet GIS: the paradigm shift. In Twelve Applications of GIS, Raja Sengupta and Jayajit Chakraborty (eds.) Guilford Press, New York.
Articles in Refereed Proceedings
· Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P. (1998). Client/Server Components and Metadata Objects for Distributed Geographic Information Services. Proceedings, GIS/LIS '98, Fort Worth, TX, November, 1998: 590-599.
· Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P. (1998). An Agent-based, Global User Interface for Distributed Geographic Information Services. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, British Columbia, July, 1998: 603-612.
Refereed Extended Abstracts
| Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P. (2000). Extended Abstract: Agent-based Mechanisms for Distributing Geographic Information Services on the Internet, GIScience 2000 Abstract: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Octorber 28-31, Savannah, Georgia, pp. 30-32. |
Invited Articles in Major GIS Professional Magazines and Newsletters
| Tsou, M. H. (2004). Present realities and the future of Internet GIS. GIS@Development Magazine. July 2004, vol. 8 (7). Pp. 29-32. (URL: http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/years/2004/july/29.shtml) |
| Tsou, M. H. (2004). Tracking the 2003 San Diego Wildfire. CSU Geospatial Review. Spring 2004, Vol. 2(1). Pp.1. |
Professional Conferences Proceedings, Abstracts, and Posters (Not-Refereed)
| Tsou, M.H. and Howser, A. (2005). Web and Mobile GIS for High School GIS Career Awareness. In 2005 ESRI Education User Conference, July 2326, 2005. (Paper and Abstract URL: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/educ05/abstracts/a1113.html ) |
| Tsou, M.H. (2005).
Internet-Based Spatial Decision Support System with Real-Time Wireless
Mobile GIS. In 2005 ESRI International User Conference, July 2529, 2005 San Diego, California, (Abstract URL: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/abstracts/a1115.html) |
| Tsou, M.H. (2005). Abstract: Adopting Web-based GIS for the Development of a Scalable GIS Education Program. AAG 101th Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado. April 5-9, 2005. |
| Tsou, M.H. (2004). Abstract: Cartographic Matrix for Dynamic Internet Mapping. AAG 100th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 14-18 March 2004. |
| Tsou, M.H. (2003). Abstract: Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Map Servers for Environmental Monitoring and Management. AAG 99th Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. 5-8 March 2003. |
| Tsou, M.H. (2002). Proceeding: Adopting Software Agents for Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices. Proceedings, ESRI International User Conference, San Diego California, July 8-12, 2002. |
| Tsou, M.H. (2002). Abstract: Intelligent Software Agents for Internet Mapping. AAG 98th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California. 19-23 March 2002. |
| Tsou, M.H. (2001). Poster Session: Dynamic Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices, NSF Arctic GIS Workshop, January 21-24, Seattle Washington, 2001, URL http://www.arcus.org/gis/abstracts/tsou.html |
| Buttenfield, B.P., Tsou, M. H., Dickinson, T. and Petrik, K (2000). Abstract: GIS for the Rest of Us: Internet Delivery of Earth Science Class Exercise, Presentation at Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 2000. |
| Buttenfield, B.P. and Tsou, M.H. (1999). Proceeding: Distributing an Internet-based GIS to Remote College Classrooms, Proceedings, ESRI International User Conference, San Diego California, July, 1999. |
WEB RESOURCES FOR DISTRIBUTED GIS
Research Web site:
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Publication Download: http://map.sdsu.edu/publications.htm | ||||||||
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HTTP://MAP.SDSU.EDU (San Diego Wildfire 2003 Interactive Web Mapping)
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San Diego Bay Watershed/Water quality (Common Ground) project: http://www.sdbay.sdsu.edu |
| Distributed Component Framework |
| Research Projects and Organizations: |
ORST-1 Advancing Web GIS "Beyond Mapping" Oregon State University (http://www.geo.orst.edu/ucgis/webgis.html)
| Conferences: |
The 2nd International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, 1999 (Interop 99)
GIScience 2002 ( http://www.giscience.org )
| Commercial Products: |
Small World Internet Application Server
MapInfo Map Extreme
