Xiyong Hou
Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
Biography
Dr. HOU has his expertise in remote sensing of coastal changes (mainly focus on land use and land cover change, shoreline change), spatial analysis and spatial modeling, ecosystem assessment and vulnerability assessment in coastal zone. His research group has developed multiple temporal shoreline data of mainland China (1940s, 1960s, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2014) and revealed the dynamic characters of mainland shoreline since the early 1940s in China. Time series land use and land cover data in coastal China (2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015) have been developed by his research group also. And, taking the coastal China as an example, the spatialization approach of GDP and population put forward by his research group exhibits advantages of significantly improving modeling accuracies especially in areas with extremely high (or low) values.