Research
- Geospatial Analyst, August 2016 - September 2016, Project of Riparian Productivity along the Lower Brazos River (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board Joint Contract # 436130)
- Geospatial Analyst, August 2016 - September 2016, Project of Riparian Assessment on the Guadalupe and Brazos Rivers (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board Joint Contract # 436133)
- Geospatial Analyst, August 2016 - October 2016, Project of Riparian Assessment on the Middle and Lower Brazos River (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board Joint Contract # 435707)
- Geospatial Analyst, October 2016 - October 2018, Project of Riparian Productivity along the Middle Trinity River (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board Joint Contract # 435707)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, January 2014, approved TerraSAR-X data proposal (Proposal # COA2070) for the Project of Hurricane Sandy Surge Flooding Extent, Persistence and Impacts to Coastal Resources of New Jersey to northern Virginia
- Postdoctoral Researcher, October 2012- July 2014, Project of Operational Shoreline Mapping with High Spatial Resolution Radar and Geographic Processing, (NASA-United States Grant #11-TE11-104)
Impact
Dr. Chi’s research addresses the criticality of synthesizing coastal mapping, dynamic modeling of glacier changes, and geospatial image processing to monitor environment changes. More specifically, her research work focuses on implementing various applications of passive microwave remote sensing technique in Geosciences for land cover change detection. She is keen in developing remote sensing image processing products to advancing the details and frequency of natural resource monitoring.
Selected Publications
Rangoonwala, A., Jones, C.E., Chi, Z., and Ramsey, E.W., III. 2017. Operational shoreline mapping with high spatial resolution radar and geographic processing. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 83(3): 237-246. 10.14358/PERS.83.3.237 (SCI, IF: 1.288)
Zhai, M., Li, X., Hui, F., Cheng, X., Heil, P., Zhao, T., Jiang, T., Cheng, C., Ci, T., Liu, Y., Chi, Z. and Liu, J. 2015. Sea-ice conditions in the Adélie depression during besetment of the Chinese icebreaker RV Xuelong. Annals of Glaciology, 56 (69): 1-7.10.3189/2015AoG69A007 (SCI, IF: 1.589)
Ramsey, E., Rangoonwala, A., Chi, Z., Bannister, T. and Jones, C. 2014. Marsh Dieback, Loss, and Recovery Mapped with Satellite Optical, Airborne Polarimetirc Radar, and Field Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 152: 364-374. 10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.002 (SCI, IF: 5.881)
Hui, F., Ci, T., Cheng, X., Scambos, T., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chi, Z., Huang, H., Wang, X., Wang, F., Zhao, C., Jin, Z. and Wang, K. 2014. Mapping Blue Ice Areas in Antarctica Using ETM+ and MODIS data. Annals of Glaciology, 55(66): 129-137.10.3189/2014AoG66A069 (SCI, IF: 1.589)
Education
Ph.D. in Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2012
M.S. in GIS, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2007
B.S. in Geography, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 2004
Awards
- 2011 First Prize in Student Paper Competition of SWAAG Conference, Austin, Texas, Nov 10-11
- 2011 NASA DEVELOP National program internship, Wise, VA, Jun-Aug 2011
- 2010 PI for a proposal of utilization of RADARSAT-1 data approved by NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
- 2009 InSAR Workshop Grant (University Navstar Consortium, Boulder, Colorado)
- 2008 Research and Presentation Grant (Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University)
- 2003 Academic Excellence Scholarship (Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China)
