Dr. Naijun Zhou

 
Education

PhD  Geographic Information Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005
MS   Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003
MS   GIS, Remote Sensing and Cartography, Beijing University, 1996
BEng   Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, 1993

Research Interests

• Geographic Information Science
• Data Integration
• Semantics, Web Services

Dr. Zhou’s research interests are the theory and methodology of Geographic Information Science. He studies geographic data integration by examining geospatial semantics and ontology, and investigates how the Web promotes the application of geographic information.

 

Research Projects

Principle Investigator. Developing a Visual Semantic Query System to Enhance the Search Capability of Geospatial Data Portals. Funding agency: National Science Foundation IIS. 2007-2009.

Co-Investigator. Integration of Water Data Collection and Management Among Local and State Agencies. Funding agencies: Maryland Department of the Environment, U.S. EPA. 2007-2008.

Co-Investigator. Maryland Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. Funding agencies: Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 2008-2010.

Representative Papers

Zhou, N.J. 2009. Semantically Enhancing Geospatial Portals. Position paper, USGS Specialist Meeting of Ontology for The National Map. February 3-4, Washington, D.C., USA.

Zhou, N.J. and Wei, H., 2008. Semantic-based Data Integration and Its Application to Geospatial Portals. Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2008).

Zhou, N.J. and Wei, H., 2008. Integrating and visualizing semantics for geospatial data portals. Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 18-21, 2008. Montreal, Canada.

Zhou, N.J., Geospatial Semantic Integration. 2007. In Shashi Shekhar and Hui Xiong (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Sciences. Springer.

Wiegand, N. and Zhou, N.J. 2005. An ontology-based geospatial Web query system. In P. Agouris and A. Croitoru (eds.), Next Generation Geospatial Information. Taylor & Francis. pp.157-168.

Wiegand, N., Cruz, I., Zhou, N.J. and Sunna, W. 2005. A Web query system for heterogeneous government data. International Journal of E-Government Research. Vol. 1, no. 2, pp.64-82.

Zhou, N.J. and Li, L. 2005. Applying the multi-agent technology for distributed geospatial information services. In W. Zhang et al. (eds.): Multiagent Data Warehousing and Multiagent Data Mining, IEEE Computer Society (Proceedings).

Wiegand, N., Zhou, N.J. and Cruz I.F. 2003. A Web query system for heterogeneous geospatial data. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2003). IEEE Computer Society.

Wiegand, N., Zhou, N.J., Cruz, I.F. and Rajendran, A. 2002. Querying heterogeneous GIS land use data over the Web. Proceedings of GIScience 2002.