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Wu, Qiusheng

Wu, Qiusheng

October 19, 2023

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Specialties
Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing, LiDAR, Wetland Hydrology, Spatial Data Science, Cloud Computing
Email
qwu18@utk.edu
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Qiusheng Wu

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | GIST

Dr. Qiusheng Wu is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also serves as an Amazon Visiting Academic. Dr. Wu specializes in geospatial data science and open-source software development, with a research focus on utilizing big geospatial data and cloud computing to study environmental changes, particularly in surface water and wetland inundation dynamics. He is the creator of several widely used open-source Python packages, including geemap, leafmap, and segment-geospatial, which are designed for advanced geospatial analysis and visualization. Explore his open-source contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/opengeos.

Courses taught at UTK:

  • GEOG 111 – Our Digital Earth
  • GEOG 312 – First Steps in GIS Programming
  • GEOG 411 – Intermediate GIS
  • GEOG 414 – Spatial Data Management
  • GEOG 422 – Geographic Software Design
  • GEOG 501 – Colloquium in Geography
  • GEOG 510 – Geographic Software Design


Book:

Photo of Wu's book Earth Engine & Geemap, Geospatial Data Science with Python

Check out Dr. Wu’s book: Earth Engine and Geemap: Geospatial Data Science with Python! 11 chapters, 408 pages. Available for order from Locate Press: https://locatepress.com/book/gee. The book source code is freely available at: https://book.geemap.org.


YouTube Channel:

Check out his YouTube channel for open-source geospatial tutorials.

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Education

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

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