Education
2002 - Current , Ph. D study guided by Professor John Townshend at the Department of Geography, University of Maryland
2000 - 2002, M.S. in Environmental Science, the Ohio State University, with Dr. Carolyn Merry of the Department of Civil/Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science
1996 - 2000, B.S. in Environmental
Science (Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences), B.A. in Economics (
Research
---- Machine Learning of Geographical Data
---- Uncertainty in Geographical Models
---- Spatial Models
Teaching
2001-2002 Teaching Assistant for NR471, a senior undergrad
course in applied statistics,
Spring 2009 Lecturer/Instructor for Geography 473, Intermediate GIS
----Course material provided by Dr. Naijun Zhou, minor additions by myself
Spring 2009 Lecturer/Instructor for Geography 606, Quantitative Spatial Analysis
----Course is solely developed by myself, with minor inputs from several professors from several universities.
----My graduate teaching style, as illustrated in the syllabus, emphasizes the origin and evolution of analytical approaches.
Summer 2009 Lecturer/Instructor for Geography 201, Geography of Environmental Systems
----Course developed based on materials from Dr. Chris Justice and Dr. Ralph Dubayah
----My undergrad teaching style, as illustrated in my exam questions, is that of a story-teller.
----Course
Evaluation by students
Service
2009, Chair of Session "Advances in Image Processing of Remote Sensing Data" at the 2009 Annual meeting of American Society of Geographers
Honors
2007 Third place in student paper competition, American Association of Geographers, Remote Sensing Specialty Group
2000-2001. The
1998 SONY Scholarship, the
1997 BaoGang
Scholarship,
Peer-reviewed
Journal Articles
Huang, C., Kim, S., Altstatt, A., Townshend, J.R.G., Davis, P., Song, K., Tucker, C.J., Rodas, O., Yanosky, A., Clay, R. & Musinsky, J. (2007). Rapid loss of Paraguay’s Atlantic forest and the status of protected areas – a Landsat assessment. Remote Sensing of Environment, 106, 460-466.
Huang, C., Song, K., Kim, S., Townshend, J., Davis, P., Masek,
J. & Goward, S.N. (2008). Use
of a Dark Object Concept and Support Vector Machines to Automate Forest Cover Change
Analysis.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 970-985.
Liu, D., Song, K., Townshend, J.R., Gong, P., (2008) Using Local Transition Probability Models in Markov Random Fields for Forest Change Detection, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 2222-2231
Kim,
S., Altstatt, A., Huang, C., Song, K., Townshend, J.R.G.,
Song, K., Townshend,
J.R., Davis, P., Huang, C., (2007) Geometric Accuracy of GeoCover Landsat
imagery set----Use of SRTM to detect and reduce main geolocation errors,
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, in review
Conference Presentations
Song, K., Townshend,
J.R., (2009)
Introducing Kernel Perceptron for Change
Detection, 2009 Annual
Meeting, American Association of Geographers,
Las Vegas,
NV, USA
Song, K., Townshend,
J.R., (2007) Geolocation accuracy assessment of a global Landsat imagery set
using elevation data, 2007 Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers,
San Fransisco, CA, USA
Huang, C., Song, K., Kim,
S., Townshend, J., Davis, P., Masek, J., Goward, S.N. & Zhu, Z. (2007). Automated forest cover change analysis. In: NASA Land-Cover and
Land-Use Change Science Team Meeting.
Song, K., Townshend, J.R., (2006)
Automated Forest Change Mapping, From a Geographer’s Perspective and a
Computational Approach, 2006 Annual Meeting, American Association of
Geographers,
Song, K., Townshend, J.R., Kim, S., Davis, P., Clay, R., and Rodas, R., (2005) Improving Automated Detection of Land Cover Change for Large Areas Using Landsat Data, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images, 16-18 May 2005, Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, Biloxi, Mississippi USA
Song, K., Townshend, J.R., Davis, P., Huang, C. (2005), Geometric Accuracy of GeoCover Landsat imagery set----Use of SRTM to detect and reduce main geolocation errors, "The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission -- Data Validation and Applications", June 14-16, 2005, USGS Headquarters, Reston, Virginia, USA
Kim, S., Townshend, J., Altstatt, A., Huang,
C., Song, K., Davis, P., Rodas, O., Yanosky, A. & Clay, R. (2005). Quantifying
Song, K., Huang, C., Townshend, J. & Kim, S. (2005). Improved methods for automating the mapping of deforestation.
In: The 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signature in
Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS).
Trained Aspects
Graduate level courses mainly in Machine Learning, Passive Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, GIS and spatial database, Photogrammetry, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, and Statistics from Departments of Geography, Geodesy, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Statistics respectively.
Expert Developer of Matlab (7 years), IDL (5 years), and C++ (12 years).
Online Data Products Generated for the Earth Science Research Community
The SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission, source data from JPL) DEM in WRS-2 tiles in GeoTIFFs, Global Coverage, 300 Gigabytes
The GIMMS (data from Prof. Jim Tucker) dataset global mosaics in GeoTiffs, 1980-2004, ~30 Gigabytes
ASTER band 3B georeferenced to band 3N, continuing project in production phase, the whole ASTER data pool will be generated, 40 Gigabytes generated so far
Global 1-degree sampled Landsat imagery subsets, circa 2000, 100 Gigabytes
Forest Change 1990-2000 of Paraguay, (4th author)
All datasets are being distributed by GLCF
Software Developed
The DMGNET tool for large set of aerial photo analysis and classification accuracy assessment against coarser resolution imagery, developed with Visual C++ .NET
Contacts
Kuan@geog.umd.edu
MD20770
Tel: 3019803529