Chor-Pang LoChor-Pang Lo
GEOG 4330/6330 The Use and Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
GEOG 4370/6370 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4430/6430 Advanced Photogrammetry
GEOG 4730/6730 Geography of China
GEOG 8530 Advanced Topics in the Use and Interpretation of Aerial
Photographs
(1) Application of Remote Sensing and GIS to urban analysis and population estimation
(2) Land use/cover mapping and change detection using satellite images
(3) Human-environmental interactions: urban heat island development in Atlanta, Georgia; fish pond-dike aquaculture in the Pearl River Delta region of China; land use change in limestone region of China
(4) Urban and rural geography of China: small town development
(1) "A remote sensing based study of past and future land
use change impacts on climate and air quality of the Atlanta,
Georgia Metropolitan Region" (NASA, 1996-2000) (see the following
websites for more information: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/urban/urban_heat_island.html
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagewall/LandSat/atlanta_heat_background.html
(2) "Environmental impacts of accelerated economic growth in the Zhujiang Delta, China" (National Geographic Society, 1998-99)
(3) "Integrating multi-date satellite images and dynamic spatial modeling with GIS in a rapidly suburbanized environment" (NSF funded Doctoral Dissertation improvement grant for Xiaojun Yang, Ph.D. student, 1999-2001)
(I) Books
(1) Geographical Applications of Aerial Photography (New York: Crane, Russak, and Co., 1976), 330pp.
(2) Applied Remote Sensing (London and New York: Longman, 1986) 393pp
(3) Hong Kong (London: Belhaven Press, 1992), 200pp.
(II) Refereed Journal Papers (since 1995)
(1) "Automated population and dwelling unit estimation from high-resolution satellite images: a GIS approach", International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 1, 1995, pp.17-34
(2) "Environmental impact on the development of agricultural technology in China: the case of the dike-pond ('jitang') system of the integrated agriculure-aquaculture in the Zhujiang Delta of China," Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, vol. 60, 1996, pp.183-195.
(3) (with Quattrochi, D.A. and Luvall, J.C.) "Application of high-resolution thermal infrared remote sensing and GIS to assess the urban heat island effect," International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 18, no. 2, 1997, pp.287-304.
(4) (with Faber, B.J.) "Integration of Landsat Thematic Mapper and census data for quality of life assessment", Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 62, 1997, pp.143-157
(5) "Application of Landsat TM data for quality of life assessment in an urban environment", Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol. 21, no. 3/4. 1997, pp.259-276.
(6) (with Watson, L.J.) "The influence of geographic sampling methods on vegetation map accuracy evaluation in a swampy environment," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol. 64, no. 12, 1998, pp.1189-1200.
(7) (with Wang, K.) "An assessment of the accuracy of Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs) and lattices in ARC/INFO," Transactions in GIS, vol. 3, no. 3, 1999, pp.161-174.
(8) (with Yang, X.) "Relative radiometric normalization performance for change detection from multi-date satellite images," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol. 66, 2000 (in press)