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  1. A spatially hybrid hydrological modeling approach using subbasin-specific model structures

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, May 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  2. The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who built them, and people who didn’t

    Article • BioScience, March 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN, Prof. Iseult Lynch

  3. Predicting the spatial distribution of vegetation alliances with ecological knowledge under sample-limited conditions

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, January 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  4. Remote sensing applications in geomorphology: Innovations, insights and perspectives

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, November 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  5. How to solve small sample size problems in time-series soil organic carbon mapping: New insights from the Third Law of Geography

    Article • Geoderma, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  6. Position paper: Domain knowledge-driven intelligentization of watershed modeling and scenario analysis for precise watershed management

    Article • Information Geography, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  7. Intelligent determination of proper spatial extents for input data during geographical model workflow building

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  8. Digital soil mapping based on the similarity of geographic environment over spatial neighborhoods

    Article • International Journal of Digital Earth, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  9. A multivariate spatial structure indicator based on geographic similarity

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  10. Digital Terrain Models and Terrain Metrics

    Article • Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, January 2025, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  11. Spatial distribution pattern analysis using variograms over geographic and feature space

    Article • Geo-spatial Information Science, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  12. Prospects on mangrove knowledge services in the smart era: From plant atlas to knowledge graphs

    Article • Science in China Series D Earth Sciences, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  13. Applicability of the longitudinal profile–based cirque classification—A test with large cirque datasets in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  14. Using Automated Machine Learning for Spatial Prediction—The Heshan Soil Subgroups Case Study

    Article • Land, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  15. iSoLIM : a similarity-based spatial prediction software for the big data era

    Article • Annals of GIS, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  16. A case-based reasoning strategy of integrating case-level and covariate-level reasoning to automatically select covariates for spatial prediction

    Article • Annals of GIS, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  17. Large-area soil mapping based on environmental similarity with adaptive consideration of spatial distance to samples

    Article • Geoderma, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  18. From scenario to roadmap: Design and evaluation of a web-based participatory watershed planning system for optimizing multistage implementation plans of management practices under stepwise investment

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  19. Optimizing the Implementation Plan of Watershed Best Management Practices With Time‐Varying Effectiveness Under Stepwise Investment

    Article • Water Resources Research, June 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  20. Identification of watershed priority management areas based on landscape positions: An implementation using SWAT+

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  21. High-Resolution Mapping of Soil Organic Matter at the Field Scale Using UAV Hyperspectral Images with a Small Calibration Dataset

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  22. Decision surface optimization in mapping exotic mangrove species (Sonneratia apetala) across latitudinal coastal areas of China

    Article • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  23. Digital soil mapping with adaptive consideration of the applicability of environmental covariates over large areas

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  24. Do model choice and sample ratios separately or simultaneously influence soil organic matter prediction?

    Article • International Soil and Water Conservation Research, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  25. An Improved Submerged Mangrove Recognition Index-Based Method for Mapping Mangrove Forests by Removing the Disturbance of Tidal Dynamics and S. alterniflora

    Article • Remote Sensing, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  26. Identifying large-area mangrove distribution based on remote sensing: A binary classification approach considering subclasses of non-mangroves

    Article • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  27. Towards Domain-Knowledge-Based Intelligent Geographical Modeling

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  28. A load-balancing strategy for data domain decomposition in parallel programming libraries of raster-based geocomputation

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  29. Hybridization of cokriging and gaussian process regression modelling techniques in mapping soil sulphur

    Article • CATENA, November 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  30. Automatic Crater Detection by Training Random Forest Classifiers with Legacy Crater Map and Spatial Structural Information Derived from Digital Terrain Analysis

    Article • Annals of the American Association of Geographers, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  31. A hybrid vector-raster approach to drainage network construction in agricultural watersheds with rice terraces and ponds

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  32. Formalizing Parameter Constraints to Support Intelligent Geoprocessing: A SHACL-Based Method

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  33. GIScience and remote sensing in natural resource and environmental research: Status quo and future perspectives

    Article • Geography and Sustainability, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  34. Service Ecosystem: A Lens of Smart Digital Society

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  35. Comparison on two case‐based reasoning strategies of automatically selecting terrain covariates for digital soil mapping

    Article • Transactions in GIS, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  36. Soil property mapping by combining spatial distance information into the Soil Land Inference Model (SoLIM)

    Article • Pedosphere, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  37. The Key Reason of False Positive Misclassification for Accurate Large-Area Mangrove Classifications

    Article • Remote Sensing, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  38. A detailed mangrove map of China for 2019 derived from Sentinel‐1 and ‐2 images and Google Earth images

    Article • Geoscience Data Journal, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  39. 10-m-resolution mangrove maps of China derived from multi-source and multi-temporal satellite observations

    Article • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  40. GDAL/OGR and Geospatial Data IO Libraries

    Article • Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, October 2020, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  41. A case-based method of selecting covariates for digital soil mapping

    Article • Journal of Integrative Agriculture, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  42. Spatial optimization of watershed best management practice scenarios based on boundary-adaptive configuration units

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  43. Evaluation of submerged mangrove recognition index using multi-tidal remote sensing data

    Article • Ecological Indicators, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  44. Next generation of GIS: must be easy

    Article • Annals of GIS, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  45. Using the most similar case method to automatically select environmental covariates for predictive mapping

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  46. Obtaining Urban Waterlogging Depths from Video Images Using Synthetic Image Data

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  47. Digital Soil Mapping over Large Areas with Invalid Environmental Covariate Data

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  48. Mapping large-area tidal flats without the dependence on tidal elevations: A case study of Southern China

    Article • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  49. An Automatic Method for Drainage Basin Spatial Range Delineation Using DEMs

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  50. A modular and parallelized watershed modeling framework

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  51. In-situ recommendation of alternative soil samples during field sampling based on environmental similarity

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  52. A knowledge-based method for the automatic determination of hydrological model structures

    Article • Journal of Hydroinformatics, September 2019, IWA Publishing

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  53. From Manual to Intelligent: A Review of Input Data Preparation Methods for Geographic Modeling

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  54. Automatic crater detection by mining existing crater map

    Article • Abstracts of the ICA, July 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  55. Review on algorithms of dealing with depressions in grid DEM

    Article • Annals of GIS, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Yijie Wang, Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  56. Predicting soil organic carbon content in croplands using crop rotation and Fourier transform decomposed variables

    Article • Geoderma, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  57. Dynamic Recommendation of Substitute Locations for Inaccessible Soil Samples during Field Sampling Campaign

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  58. Content-Sensitive Multilevel Point Cluster Construction for ALS Point Cloud Classification

    Article • Remote Sensing, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  59. Effects of Different Spatial Configuration Units for the Spatial Optimization of Watershed Best Management Practice Scenarios

    Article • Water, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  60. Updating conventional soil maps by mining soil–environment relationships from individual soil polygons

    Article • Journal of Integrative Agriculture, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  61. 3-D Deep Feature Construction for Mobile Laser Scanning Point Cloud Registration

    Article • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  62. Extraction of Urban Waterlogging Depth from Video Images Using Transfer Learning

    Article • Water, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  63. Spatial prediction based on Third Law of Geography

    Article • Annals of GIS, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  64. Modelling species habitat suitability from presence-only data using kernel density estimation

    Article • Ecological Indicators, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  65. Mapping Mangrove Forests Based on Multi-Tidal High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

    Article • Remote Sensing, August 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  66. A comparative study of an expert knowledge-based model and two data-driven models for landslide susceptibility mapping

    Article • CATENA, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  67. Automatic approach to deriving fuzzy slope positions

    Article • Geomorphology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  68. How about a consideration on MFD-md, a local-terrain-adaptive MFD?

    Article • February 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  69. Identification of representative samples from existing samples for digital soil mapping

    Article • Geoderma, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  70. Complexity analysis of manufacturing service ecosystem: a mapping-based computational experiment approach

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  71. Machine-Learning Variables at Different Scales vs. Knowledge-based Variables for Mapping Multiple Soil Properties

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2018, Soil Science Society of America

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  72. Spatial optimization of watershed best management practices based on slope position units

    Article • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, January 2018, Soil and Water Conservation Society

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  73. Validity of historical volunteered geographic information: Evaluating citizen data for mapping historical geographic phenomena

    Article • Transactions in GIS, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  74. An approach to extracting surface supply relationships between glaciers and lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • International Journal of Digital Earth, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  75. An efficient method for applying a differential equation to deriving the spatial distribution of specific catchment area from gridded digital elevation models

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  76. Mapping soil organic matter concentration at different scales using a mixed geographically weighted regression method

    Article • Geoderma, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  77. Case-based knowledge formalization and reasoning method for digital terrain analysis – application to extracting drainage networks

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, August 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  78. Spatial Analysis and Simulation

    Article • July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  79. A two-level parallelization method for distributed hydrological models

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  80. An heuristic uncertainty directed field sampling design for digital soil mapping

    Article • Geoderma, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  81. CyberSoLIM: A cyber platform for digital soil mapping

    Article • Geoderma, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  82. Computational Experiment-based Evaluation on Context-aware O2O Service Recommendation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  83. Cuda/GPU

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  84. A citizen data-based approach to predictive mapping of spatial variation of natural phenomena

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  85. Predictive soil mapping with limited sample data

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  86. Encyclopedia of GIS

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  87. An expert knowledge-based approach to landslide susceptibility mapping using GIS and fuzzy logic

    Article • Geomorphology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  88. A strategy for raster-based geocomputation under different parallel computing platforms

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  89. A layered approach to parallel computing for spatially distributed hydrological modeling

    Article • Environmental Modelling & Software, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  90. How to Apply the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Properly to Parallel Geospatial Raster I/O?

    Article • Transactions in GIS, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  91. Estimation of theoretical maximum speedup ratio for parallel computing of grid-based distributed hydrological models

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  92. Uncertainty due to DEM error in landslide susceptibility mapping

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  93. Artificial surfaces simulating complex terrain types for evaluating grid-based flow direction algorithms

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  94. An integrative hierarchical stepwise sampling strategy for spatial sampling and its application in digital soil mapping

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  95. Mapping wildlife habitat suitability using kernel density estimation

    Article • Acta Ecologica Sinica, January 2013, Acta Ecologica Sinica

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  96. Parallelizing flow-accumulation calculations on graphics processing units—From iterative DEM preprocessing algorithm to recursive multiple-flow-direction algorithm

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  97. Which type of slope gradient should be used to determine flow-partition proportion in multiple-flow-direction algorithms – tangent or sine?

    Article • May 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  98. Sensitivity of digital soil maps based on FCM to the fuzzy exponent and the number of clusters

    Article • Geoderma, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  99. Mapping soil organic matter in small low-relief catchments using fuzzy slope position information

    Article • Geoderma, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  100. Effects of spatial aggregation of soil spatial information on watershed hydrological modelling

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  101. Mapping soil organic matter using the topographic wetness index: A comparative study based on different flow-direction algorithms and kriging methods

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  102. Windowed nearest neighbour method for mining spatio-temporal clusters in the presence of noise

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  103. Construction of membership functions for predictive soil mapping under fuzzy logic

    Article • Geoderma, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  104. Differentiation of Soil Conditions over Low Relief Areas Using Feedback Dynamic Patterns

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2010, Soil Science Society of America

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  105. An approach to computing topographic wetness index based on maximum downslope gradient

    Article • Precision Agriculture, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  106. Detecting feature from spatial point processes using Collective Nearest Neighbor

    Article • Computers Environment and Urban Systems, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  107. Primary discussion on the relationship between spatial distributions of fuzzy slope positions and soil types

    Article • October 2009, SPIE

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  108. Quantification of spatial gradation of slope positions

    Article • Geomorphology, September 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  109. Spatial statistical properties and scale transform analyses on the topographic index derived from DEMs in China

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  110. Visual data mining of raster data: a volume-rendering-based hierarchical approach

    Article • December 2008, SPIE

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  111. Automatic mapping of snow cover depletion curves using optical remote sensing data under conditions of frequent cloud cover and temporary snow

    Article • Hydrological Processes, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  112. Knowledge Discovery from Area–Class Resource Maps: Capturing Prototype Effects

    Article • Cartography and Geographic Information Science, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  113. Delineation of support domain of feature in the presence of noise

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  114. An adaptive approach to selecting a flow‐partition exponent for a multiple‐flow‐direction algorithm

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  115. An Experiment Using a Circular Neighborhood to Calculate Slope Gradient from a DEM

    Article • Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, February 2007, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  116. IDENTIFICATION OF SEISMIC ACTIVITIES THROUGH VISUALIZATION AND SCALE-SPACE FILTERING

    Article • July 2006, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  117. A new approach to the nearest‐neighbour method to discover cluster features in overlaid spatial point processes

    Article • International Journal of Geographical Information Science, February 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  118. Glacier change over the past four decades in the middle Chinese Tien Shan

    Article • Journal of Glaciology, January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  119. A fine resolution mangrove map of China for 2019 derived from 10-m-resolution satellite observations and Google Earth images

    Article • Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN

  120. Purposive Sampling for Digital Soil Mapping for Areas with Limited Data

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Cheng-Zhi QIN