- Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley, 2007
- M.S., Geography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2001
- Minor, Computer Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1997
- B.S., Geography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1998
- 2006, Walter and Ruth Schubert Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the field of Ecosystems Sciences
- 2006, Chinese National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
- 2005, Student Honors Paper Competition, 1st Place, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Denver, April 5-9, 2005.
- 2005, NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award, 20th Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Syracuse, NY, March 12-16, 2005.
- 2004-2006, NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Earth System Science, NASA
- 2003-2004, B.A.S.C Fellowship, Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center
- Remote sensing of environment and natural resources: image processing and classification; biophysical and biochemical information extraction; LIDAR remote sensing; mapping fire, vegetation health, and invasive species
- GIS, spatial data analysis, geostatistics: GIS database design, system design, visualization, digital elevation model generation, spatial pattern analysis, variogram parameters extraction
- Environmental Science: vegetation and atmosphere interactions; the role of heterogeneity in ecological modeling; land surface parameterizations; ecosystem ecology.
- Chen, Q., Retrieving canopy height of forests and woodlands over mountainous areas in the Pacific coast region using satellite laser altimeter data, submitted.
- Chen, Q., 2010. Assessment of terrain elevation derived from satellite laser altimetry over mountainous forest areas using airborne lidar data, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2009.09.004.
- Chen, Q., 2009. Improvement of the Edge-based Morphological (EM) method for lidar data filtering, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(4), 1069-1074.
- Chen, Q., P. Gong, D.D. Baldocchi, and Y. Tian, 2007. Estimating basal area and stem volume for individual trees from LIDAR data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(12), 1355-1365
- Chen, Q., 2007, Airborne lidar data processing and information extraction, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(2), 109-112 (cover story)
- Chen, Q., P. Gong, D.D. Baldocchi, and G. Xie., 2007, Filtering airborne laser scanning data with morphological methods, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(2),175-185
- Chen, Q., D.D. Baldocchi, P. Gong, and M. Kelly, 2006. Isolating individual trees in a savanna woodland using small footprint LIDAR data, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 72(8), 923-932
Multispectral & Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
- Martinez Morales, R., T. Idol, and Q. Chen, Acacia koa forest classification and productivity assessment across environmental gradients in Hawaii using fine resolution remotely sensed imagery, submitted.
- An, R., Gong, P., Wang, H., Feng, X., Xiao, P., Chen, Q., Zhang, Q., Chen, C., Yan, P., A modified PSO algorithm for remote sensing image template matching, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, in press.
- Pu, R., N. M. Kelly, Q. Chen, and P. Gong, 2008. Spectroscopic determination of health levels of Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) leaves. Geocarto International, 23(1), 3-20
- Chen, Q., P. Gong, 2004. Automatic variogram parameter extraction for textural classification of high resolution IKONOS Imagery, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42(5), 1106-1115
Ecosystem & Environmental Science
- Baldocchi, D.D. Chen, Q., Chen, X., Ma, S., Miller, G., Ryu, Y., Xiao, J., Wenk, R. and Battles, J. 2009 The dynamics of energy, water and carbon fluxes in a Blue Oak (Quercus douglasii) savanna in California, USA, In: Ecosystem Function in Global Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales – edited by Michael J. Hill and Niall P. Hanan and published by CRC/Taylor and Francis. in revision.
- Chen, Q., D.D. Baldocchi, P. Gong, and T. Dawson, 2008. Modeling radiation and photosynthesis of a heterogeneous savanna woodland landscape with a hierarchy of model complexities, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148(6-7), 1005-1020
- Ye, Q, S. Chen, Q. Chen, C. Huang, G. Tian, S. Chen, Y. Shi, Q. Liu, and G. Liu, 2006, Spatial-temporal characteristics in landscape evolution of the Yellow River Delta during 1855 – 2000 and a way out for the Yellow River estuary, Chinese Science Bulletin, 51 (Supp. 197—209), DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-8197-9
GIS, statistical analysis
- Zhang, W., McCubbin, H., McCubbin, L., Chen, Q., Foley, S., Kehl, L., and Storm, I., in press, Education and self-rated health: An individual and neighborhood level analysis of Asian Americans, Hawaiians, and Caucasians, Social Science & Medicine
- Wang, Z., X. Feng, and Chen, Q., 2000. Implementation of an Arc/Info-based enterprise GIS - a case study in Zhuzhou surveying and mapping information system of houses properties. Application Research of Computers, 17(10) (in Chinese)
- Li, M., Chen, Q., Y. Zhou, X. Li, 2000. Data organizing and processing of enterprise-GIS based on spatial data engine. Journal of Images and Graphics, 5A(3), 179-185 (in Chinese with English abstract)
- Chen, Q., M. Li, G. Wu, Z. Wang, 1999. Some issues on designing a land-use planning management information system. Application Research of Computers, 16(5) (in Chinese)
Invited talks:
- Chen, Q., Mapping Terrain and Forest Information with Airborne LIDAR Data, Lidar Littoral Studies Workshop, May 24, 2007, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
- Spring 2009, GEOG 488, Geographic Information Systems.
- Spring 2009, GEOG 470, Remote Sensing.
- Fall, 2008, GEOG 762, Graduate Seminar: Remote Sensing
- Fall 2008, GEOG 370, Map Use and Aerial Photo Interpretation
- Spring, 2008, GEOG 470, Remote Sensing.
- Fall, 2007, GEOG 762, Graduate Seminar: Remote Sensing.
- Reviewer:
- Remote sensing and GIS journals:
- Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing; (IF impact factor: 1.8)
- International Journal of Remote Sensing; (IF: 1.0)
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; (IF: 2.3)
- Computers & Geosciences (IF: 0.9)
- Environmental science journals:
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; (IF: 3.7)
- Plant Cell & Environment; (IF: 4.5)
- Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences; (IF: 3.0)
- Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;(IF: 1.9)
- New Phytologist (IF:5.2)
- Forestry journals:
- The Forestry Chronicle (IF: 0.8)
- Forest Science (IF: 1.3);
- Annals of Forest Science (IF: 1.6);
- Proposals:
- NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program;
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Remote sensing and GIS journals:
- Chair of membership committee (2007-now), General Secretary (2006-2007) of International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
- Current students and/or lab members:
- Rodolfo Martinez Morales (PhD)
- Lisa Wedding (PhD)
- Wen Liu (PhD)
- Michael Borger (PhD)
- Elizabeth McLeod (PhD).
- Migraliette U Purbaranti (MA): Graduated in 2009 spring. Thesis: Temporal and spatial impacts of mining in Kalanaman watershed, central Kalimantan, Indonesia and the local perspective on watershed management.
- Bixler McClure (MA): Graduated in 2009 spring. Thesis: Assessing recreational scuba diver perceptions of crowding.
- Ryan Mudd (MA): Graduate in 2009 spring:
- Ryan Riddle (MA): Expected in 2010 spring.
- Jiyuan Guo (Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor, China University of Geosciences)
- External Ph.D. Dissertation Examiner:
- Solomon G. Tesfamichael, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Graduated 2009 Spring. Dissertation: Assessment of structural attributes of even-aged Eucalyptus grandis forest plantations using small-footprint discrete return lidar data.