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.

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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

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