Contact information

• Email: zhoulch@njnu.edu.cn
• Office Address: Xinyuan Building-401, North District, Nanjing Normal University
• Address: School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, No.1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, China

Educational Background

• 2004-2009, Cartography and GIS, Nanjing Normal University
• 1997-2001, Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University

Research Experience

• 2009-present, Nanjing Normal University, College of Geographical Sciences, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor
• 2016-2017, Wisconsin State University, Madison, USA, Visiting Scholar

Research Interests
       Professor Zhou has long been engaged in the research and system development of 3D geographic information related theories and methods, and has obtained a series of important academic results in 3D GIS data model, modeling methods and expression methods, which have been widely used at home and abroad and have achieved good social and economic benefits. At present, he mainly focuses on the research of urban 3D modeling and global discrete grid system.

Presided over projects

• 1) CIM Common Information Description Specification and Data Exchange Format, (2022YFC3803601), National Key Research and Development Program, 2022-2025, Chair
• 2) Optimization Method of Global Discrete Grid System for Ocean Data Organization and Management and Analysis, (42076203), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2024, Chair
• 3) Theory and Methodology of Multiple Global Dissected Grids and Unified Coding, (SQ2018YFB0505301), National Key Research and Development Program, 2018-2022, Chair
• 4) Spatio-temporal Ubiquitous Information Location Aggregation and Content Service (2017YFB0503503), National Key Research and Development Program, 2017-2021, Chair
• 5) Global Discrete Grid Research with Spatial Data Representation and Earth System Model Computation (41571381), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016-2019, Chair
• 6) Research on 3D Spatial Data Model Based on Conformal Geometric Algebra (41001224), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2011-2013, Chair
• 7) Housing unified building table data governance and service system project, Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Housing Security and Real Estate, 2022, presided
• 8) Regional Data Collection and 3D Cadastral Modeling Project in Qixia District, Nanjing, Nanjing Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources, 2021, Chair
• 9) Nanjing Housing Rental Service Supervision Platform - Housing Information Collection System, Nanjing Housing Security and Real Estate Bureau, 2020, presided
• 10) Research and pilot application of efficient 3D real estate cadastral model construction based on BIM, Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources, 2020, presided
• 11) Research on Construction and Application Model of 3D Real Estate Cadastre Model for Real Estate Based on Building Construction Plans, Jiangsu Province Land and Resources Science and Technology Project, 2018, presided

Awards and Honors

• 1) In 2022, he won the first prize of "Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award" of China Association of Geographic Information Industry, ranking third in "Key Technology Research and Application of City-level Land Spatial Foundation Information Platform".
• 2) In 2021, the key technology and application of video GIS will be awarded the first prize of "Science and Technology Award of Surveying and Mapping" by Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping, ranking the third.
• 3) In 2020, the key technology and application research of 3D rapid modeling of real estate cadastre in real estate, won the second prize of "Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award" of China Geographic Information Industry Association, ranked second.
• 4) In 2019, he won the second prize of "Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award" of China Association of Geographic Information Industry, ranking fourth in "Research on Key Technology of Natural Resources Classification and Expression Based on Earth's 3D Space".
• 5) In 2018, he participated in "Digital Processing of Remote Sensing Images" National Excellence Online Course, which was awarded "National Excellence Online Open Course" by the Ministry of Education of China, and ranked the third.
• 6) In 2017, participated in the project of "Key Technology of Urban GIS for Urban Management", won the first prize of "Geographic Information Science and Technology Progress Award" of China Geographic Information Industry Association, ranked fourteenth.
   

Recent first (corresponding) author journal articles

• 1)    Research on real estate 3D modeling based on integration of physical entity and property entity，Frontiers in Earth Science，2023
• 2)    Extraction of ocean tidal information based on global equal-area grid and satellite altimeter data. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022
• 3)    Lane-Level Road Network Construction Based on Street-View Images，Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing，2022
• 4)    An Indoor Space Model of Building Considering Multi-Type Segmentation，International Journal of Geo-Information ，2022
• 5)    Exploring the distribution of city street greenery from eye-level: an application of Baidu Map panoramic images data. Geografisk tidsskrift, 2022
• 6)    Automatic Positioning of Street Objects Based on Self-Adaptive Constrained Line of Bearing from Street-View Images，International Journal of Geo-Information ，2022
• 7)    A three-dimensional data model for integrated real estate based on IFC standard extensions, Journal of Geoinformation Science, 2021 
• 8)    Simulation method for indoor airflow based on the Industry Foundation Classes model，Journal of Building Engineering，2021
• 9)    A Topology Preserving Gridding Method for Vector Features in Discrete Global Grid Systems，International Journal of Geo-Information ，2020
• 10)    A Method of Perspective Normalization for Video Images Based on Map Data，Annals of GIS
• 11)    Generation of navigation networks for corridor spaces based on indoor visibility map，International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2019
• 12)    A Delaunay Triangulation Algorithm Based on Dual‐Spatial Data Organization，Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science，2019
• 13)    Extracting Indoor Space Information in Complex Building Environments，International Journal of Geo-Information，2018
• 14)    An Interactive Indoor 3D Reconstruction Method Based on Conformal Geometry Algebra， Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras，2018
• 15)    Efficient encoding and decoding algorithm for triangular discrete global grid based on Hybrid Transformation Strategy， Computers, Environment and Urban Systems，2018
• 16)    A discrete global grid system for earth system modeling， International Journal of Geographical Information Science，2017
• 17)  Encoding model of spherical rhombic discrete lattice network with positive icosahedron and its mapping method, Journal of Surveying and Mapping, 2016
• 18)  Spherical rhombic discrete lattice network with spherical rhombic discrete lattice network, Journal of Surveying and Mapping, 2014
• 19)  A 3D modeling method for archaeological sites based on hand-drawn drawings, Journal of Geoinformatics, 2014
• 20)  Virtual Borehole-Controlled 3D Geological Body Model Construction Method, Journal of Geoinformatics, 2013
• 21)  Algorithm and Implementation of Virtual Borehole-Controlled Geological Profile Construction, Journal of Geoinformatics Science, 2013
• 22)  Research on 3D geological body modelling method for planar geological map, Journal of Geoinformatics Science, 2013

Published monographs

• 1) Geological Information System Development and Practice , Science Press, 2013, First
• 2) Geological Information Systems, Science Press, 2013, 2nd