Research Terms
Keywords
Disaster Resilience Geographic Information Systems Gis Information Visualization Spatial Analysis Spatial Data Science
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Peng, B., Huang, Q., Vongkusolkit, J., Gao, S., Wright, D. B., Fang, Z. N., Qiang, Y. (2020). “Urban Flood Mapping with Bi-temporal Multispectral Imagery via a Self-supervised Learning Framework” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1109/?JSTARS.?2020.3047677
Qiang, Y., Buttenfield, B. P., Joseph, M. B., (2020) “How to Measure Distance on a Digital Terrain Surface and Why it Matters in Geographical Analysis”, Geographical Analysis. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12255
Qiang, Y., Huang, Q., Xu, J., (2020) “Observing Disaster Resilience from Space: Using Nighttime Lights to Model Economic Disturbance and Recovery Pattern in Natural Disaster”, Sustainable Cities and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102115
Qiang, Y., Xu. J., (2020) “Empirical assessment of road network resilience in natural hazards using crowdsourced traffic data”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. vol: 12(34) pp.2434-2450. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2019.1694681
Qiang, Y., Xu. J., Zhang, G., (2019) “The Shapes of US Cities: Revisiting the Classic Population Density Functions Using Crowdsourced Geospatial Data”, Urban Studies. DOI:?10.1177/?00420980?19871?191
Qiang, Y. (2019) “Flood Exposure of Critical Infrastructure in the United States”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol: 39, DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101240
Qiang, Y. and Van de Weghe, N. (2019) “Re-Arranging Space, Time and Scales in GIS: Alternative Models for Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Analyses”, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. vol: 8(2). DOI:10.3390/ijgi8020072
Qiang, Y. (2019) “Disparities of Population Exposed to Flood Hazards in the United States”, Journal of Environmental Management. vol: 232 (15). DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.039
Qiang, Y., Shen, S., and Chen, Q. (2019) “Visibility Analysis of Oceanic Blue Space Using Digital Elevation Models”, Landscape and Urban Planning. vol:181. DOI:10.1016/?j.landurbplan.?2018.09?.019
Cai H., Lam NSN., Qiang Y., Zou L., Correll RM., Mihunov V. (2018). “A Synthesis of Disaster Resilience Measurement Methods and Indices” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol: 31. DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.07.015.
Cai H., Lam NSN., Zou L., Qiang Y. (2018). “Modeling the Dynamics of Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards Using a Bayesian Network.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. vol:108(5). DOI:10.1080/24694452.2017.1421896.
Lam, NSN., Xu, Y.J., Liu, K., Dismukes, D.E., Reams, M., Pace, R.K., Qiang, Y., Narra, S., Li, K., Bianchette, T.A., Cai, H., Zou, L., Mihunov, V. (2018). “Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System: Research Methods, Challenges, and Prospects.” Water. vol: 10(8). DOI:10.3390/w10081054.
Zou L., Lam NSN., Cai H., Qiang Y. (2018). “Mining Twitter Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. vol: 108(5). DOI:10.1080/24694452.2017.1421897.
Lam, NSN., Qiang Y., Li, K., Cai H., Zou, L and Mihunov, V. (2018) “Extending Resilience Assessment to Dynamic System Modeling: Perspectives on Human Dynamics and Climate Change Research”. Journal of Coastal Research. vol: 85, pp:1401–1405. doi.org/10.2112/SI85-281.1.
Qiang, Y., Lam, N., Zou, L. and Cai, H., (2017) “Changes in Exposure to Flood Hazards in the United States”, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. vol: 107(6). DOI:10.1080?/24694452.?2017.1320214
Li, X., Lam, N., Qiang, Y., Li, K., Yin, L., Liu, S., and Zheng, W., (2016) “Measuring County Resilience after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. vol:7(4), DOI:10.1007/s13753-016-0109-2
Qiang, Y. and Lam, N., (2016) “The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Urban Growth in Louisiana: An Analysis Using Data Mining and Simulation Approaches”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. vol:30(9). DOI:10.1080/13658816.2016.1144886
Bianchette, T., Liu, K., Qiang, Y., and Lam, N., (2015) “Wetland accretion rates along coastal Louisiana: Spatial and temporal variability in light of Hurricane Isaac’s impacts”, Water. vol: 8(1). DOI:10.3390/w8010001
Cai, H., Lam, N., Zou, L., Qiang, Y., Li, K., (2015) “Assessing Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin”, Water. vol: 8(1). DOI:10.3390/w8020046
Zou, L., Kent, J., Lam, N., Cai, H., Qiang Y., Li, K., (2015) “Evaluating Land Subsidence Rates and their Implications for Land Loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin”, Water. vol:8(1). DOI:10.3390/w8010010
Lam, N., Qiang, Y., Arenas, H., Brito, P. and Liu, K., (2015) “Mapping and Assessing Coastal Resilience in the Caribbean Countries”, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. vol:42(4). DOI:??10.1080/15230406.2015.1040999
Qiang, Y. and Lam, N., (2015) “Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Region Using Artificial Neural Networks and Cellular Automata”, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. vol:187(3). DOI:10.1007/s10661-015-4298-8
Li, K., Lam, N., Qiang, Y., Zou, L. and Cai H., (2015) “A Cyberinfrastructure for Community Resilience Assessment and Visualization”, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. vol:42(s1). DOI:10.1080/15230406.2015.1060113
Chavoshi, S. H., De Beats, B., Qiang, Y., De Tré, G., Neutens, T. and Van de Weghe, N., (2015) “A Qualitative Approach to the Identification, Visualisation and Interpretation of Repetitive Motion Patterns in Groups of Moving Point Objects”, International Arab Journal of Information Technology. vol:12, no. 5, pp 415-423
Van de Weghe, N., De Roo, B., Qiang, Y., Neutens, T. and De Maeyer, P., (2014) “The Continuous Spatio-Temporal Model (CSTM) as an Exhaustive Framework for Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Analysis”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. vol:28(5). DOI:10.?1080/13658816.2014.886329
Qiang, Y., Valcke, M., and Van de Weghe, N., (2014) “Representing Time Intervals in a Two-Dimensional Space: An Empirical Exploratory Study”. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. vol:25(4), pp 466-480. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.01.001
Qiang, Y., Chavoshi, S.H., Logghe, S., De Maeyer, P., and Van de Weghe, N. (2014) “Multi-scale Analysis of Linear Data in a Two-Dimensional Space”, Information Visualization. vol:13(3), pp 248-265. DOI:10.1177/1473871612436775
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Versichele, M., De Maeyer, P., and Van de Weghe, N., (2012) “Interactive Analysis of Time Intervals in a Two-Dimensional Space”, Information Visualization. vol:11(4). DOI:10.1177/1473871612436775
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Neutens, T., Stichelbaut, B., De Maeyer, P., and Van de Weghe, N., (2012) “Analysing imperfect temporal information in GIS using the Triangular Model”, The Cartographic Journal. vol:11(4). DOI:10.1179/1743277412Y.0000000008
Qiang, Y., Delafontaine, M., Asmussen, K., Stichelbaut, B., De Tré, G., De Maeyer, P. and Van de Weghe, N. (2010) “Modelling Imperfect Time Intervals in a Two-Dimensional Space”, Control and Cybernetics, vol:39(4).
Book Chapters
Qiang, Y. (2021) “Geospatial Analysis and Model Building”. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2020 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). In press.
Yuan, Y., Qiang, Y., Bin Asad, K., and Chow, T. E. (2020). “Point Pattern Analysis”. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2020 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2020.1.13.
Lam NS-N, Xu Y.J., Pace R.K., Liu, K.B., Qiang, Y., Narra, S., Bianchette, T.A., Cai, H. (2019) “Collaboration Across Boundaries: Reflections on Studying the Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System”. In: Perz SG (ed.) Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science: Experiences Around the World. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 361–393. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13827-1_11.
Brodaric, B., Reitsma, F. and Qiang, Y. 2007, “SKIing with DOLCE: toward an e-Science Knowledge Infrastructure”, in Formal ontology in information systems, C Eschenbach, M Gruninger (ed.), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 208-219. ISBN: 978-1-58603-923-3
Conference proceedings
Qiang, Y, Barbara P. Buttenfield, Nina Lam, and Nico Van de Weghe. 2018. “Novel Models for Multi-Scale Spatial and Temporal Analyses.” In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018), edited by Stephan Winter, Amy Griffin, and Monika Sester, 114:55:1–55:7. DOI:10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.55.
Buttenfield, B., Ghandehari, M., Leyk, S., Stanislawski, L., Brantley, M. and Qiang, Y., (2016) Measuring Distance “As the Horse Runs”: Cross-Scale Comparison of Terrain-Based Metrics, In proceedings of GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada, pp.41-44
De Tré, G., Bronselaer, A., Billiet, C., Qiang, Y., Van de Weghe, N., De Maeyer, P., Enrique Pons, J., and Pons, O. (2012) Visualising and handling uncertain time intervals in a two-dimensional triangular space, In proceedings of the 2nd world conference on soft computing, Baku, Azerbaijan, pp.585-592
Asmussen,K., Qiang, Y., De Maeyer, P., Van de Weghe, N. (2009). Triangular Model for Studying and Memorising Temporal Knowledge, In proceedings of International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain. pp. 1849-1859.
Qiang, Y., Reitsma, F. & Van de Weghe, N. (2009) Towards a General Temporal Ontology for Knowledge Integration, In proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Funchal. Portugal. pp. 275-280.
Qiang, Y., Asmussen, K., Delafontaine, M., De Tré, G., Stichelbaut, B., De Maeyer, P. & Van de Weghe, N. (2009) Visualising rough time intervals in a two-dimensional space, In proceedings of 2009 IFSA World Congress / EUSFLAT Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 1480-1485
American Association of Geographers, Member; 2013 - 2023
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS), National Science Foundation; 2018 - 2021
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Cartography and Geographic Information Science; 2018 - 2022
General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grant Council; 2017 - 2021
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, International Journal of Geographical Information Science; 2016 - 2023
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