Xu, Xin | GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

Xin Xu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, and he is part of the Center for Geospatial Information Science. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Automation from Nanjing Normal University, China, in 2014. His research focuses on spatial-temporal data analysis based on topology techniques. He is currently working on characterizing 3D forest structures using different lidar remote sensing platforms.

Awards

The Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant for S3PM-2017 conference
NSF travel grant for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 conference
NSF travel grant for S3PM-2017 conference
GIS Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, May 2022.

Research

Spatial data analysis and visualization

Research Topics

Geospatial-Information Science and Remote Sensing

Xu, Xin, Federico Iuricich, and Leila De Floriani. "A topology-based approach to individual tree segmentation from airborne LiDAR data." GeoInformatica (2023): 1-30.
Xu, Xin, Federico Iuricich, Kim Calders, John Armston, and Leila De Floriani. "Topology-based individual tree segmentation for automated processing of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds."
Xu, Xin. "An unsupervised building footprints delineation approach for large-scale LiDAR point clouds." In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp. 1-4. 2022.

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Department of Geographical Sciences

xinxu629 [at] umd.edu