Geographic Information Science (GIS), Remote Sensing, Environmental Modeling, Big Geospatial Data Analytics, Wetland Mapping, Surface Water Hydrology, LiDAR, GIS Programming, Python, R, Google Earth Engine
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Associate Professor
University of Tennessee
Curriculum Vitae
Faculty page @ UTK
Faculty page @ UTK Geography
Pronunciation:
Chyoo-sheng Woo
Dr. Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also serves as an Amazon Visiting Academic. Dr. Wu specializes in geospatial data science and open-source software development, with a research focus on utilizing big geospatial data and cloud computing to study environmental changes, particularly in surface water and wetland inundation dynamics. He is the creator of several widely used open-source Python packages, including geemap, leafmap, and segment-geospatial, which are designed for advanced geospatial analysis and visualization. Explore his open-source contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/opengeos.
Academic Profiles:
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ResearchGate
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ORCID
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Publons
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GitHub
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Medium
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Figshare
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Blog
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YouTube
Appointments:
• 2024–now Director of Graduate Studies, Department of
Geography & Sustainability, UTK
• 2023–now Associate Professor, Department of Geography &
Sustainability, UTK
• 2022–now Amazon Visiting Academic
• 2022–now Director of
TennesseeView, a
Tennessee Remote Sensing Consortium
• 2023–2024 Senior Research Fellow, United Nations
University (UNU-INWEH)
• 2021–2024 Associate Graduate Director, Department of
Geography, University of Tennessee
• 2019–2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography &
Sustainability, UTK
• 2018–2019 Graduate Director, Department of Geography,
Binghamton University (SUNY)
• 2015–2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography,
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Editorships:
• 2023–now Associate Editor,
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and
Geoinformation
• 2016–now Associate Editor,
Wetlands
Open-source Packages/Apps for Geospatial Analysis:
• R Packages:
whiteboxR
• Python Packages:
geemap
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leafmap
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geospatial
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lidar
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whitebox
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pygis
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streamlit-geospatial
• Google Earth Engine:
Wetland Inundation Mapping
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Earth Engine Apps
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QGIS EE Examples
• ArcGIS Toolboxes:
Depression Identification Analyst
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Wetland Hydrology Analyst
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Drumlin Extraction Toolbox
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Level-Set Toolbox
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WhiteboxTools-ArcGIS
Check out Dr. Wu's
YouTube Channel
for video tutorials on cloud computing and open geospatial:
I won the Graduate Teaching Award by the Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK (2024) and the Graduate Teaching Award by the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University (2017). Below are some selected comments from my students:
I have reviewed 180+ times for 40+ journals since 2015. I won the Sentinel of Science Award (2016) and Top 1% of Peer Reviewers in Multidisciplinary (2017). Check out my verified peer review record at Publons.
Associate Editor (2023–present)
I am looking for self-motivated students interested in geospatial data science. Please contact me if you are interested in working in my research lab. Find out more information about the application guideline from our Graduate School and the Geography Department.
Qiusheng Wu
1000 Phillip Fulmer Way
309 Burchfiel Geography Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
Email: qwu18@utk.edu
Web:
https://wetlands.io
Blog:
https://blog.gishub.org
Phone: +1-865-221-8824
Location:
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