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Yifang Ban
Yifang Ban
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Professor
Ph.D. University of Waterloo, Canada, 1996
08-790 8648
yifang(a)infra.kth.se
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Biosketch
Dr. Yifang Ban is the Professor of Geoinformatics and the Director of the Geoinformatics Division at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1996, and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Nanjing University in China in 1984 and 1987 respectively. Dr. Ban earned a Certificate with Honours at the International Space University Summer Session held in Barcelona in 1994. She received various scholarships and awards in China and Canada.
Before joining KTH in 2004, Dr. Ban was a tenured Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She was an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University during 1998-2000 and a Senior Research Engineer at KTH during 1996-1997. Dr. Ban was a GIS Analyst at PDM Information Technology Inc. (1991-92) and a Remote Sensing Consultant at Watts, Griffis and Mcquat Ltd. (1995-96) in Toronto. Before moved to Toronto in May, 1990, she was a Research Associate at Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Undergraduate & M.Sc. Courses
AG1321 Remote Sensing Technology
AG2413 Digital Image Processing & Applications
AG2415 WebGIS
AG2421 A GIS Project
AG2414 Spatial Analysis
Ph.D. Courses
1E5510 Knowledge-Based Remote Sensing
1E5580 Spatial Analysis
Research Interests
• Multisensor Data Fusion, SAR Image Analysis
• Remote Sensing of Urban, Landuse/Land-cover, & Vegetation
• Digital Change Detection
• Spatial Analysis & Modelling
• 3D Visualization for Sustainable Urban Planning
• Environmental Impact Assessment
Selected Publications
Ban, Y. and K.I. Ahmed. 2007. ENVISAT ASAR for Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection in the Rural-Urban Fringe of the Greater Toronto Area. 5th International Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications, Bari, Italy, Sept. 24-28.
Ban, Y. and H. Hu. 2007. RADARSAT Fine-Beam SAR Data for Land-Cover Mapping and Change Detection in the Rural-Urban Fringe of the Greater Toronto Area. Proceedings, Urban Remote Sensing 2007, Apr. 11-13, Paris, France.
Lin, X., B. Yu and Y. Ban. 2007. On Indexing Mechanism in Geographical Information Retrieval Systems. Proceedings, 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. May 8-11, Aalborg, Denmark.
Ban, Y. 2006. ENVISAT ASAR for Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection. Scientific Report to the Swedish National Space Board. 65p.
Ban. Y. and Q. Wu. 2005. RADARSAT fine-beam SAR and GIS data for urban Landuse and land-cover mapping, Proceedings, 8th AGILE Conference on GIScience, Estoril, Portugal, May 26-28.
Ban, Y. 2003. Multitemporal ERS-1 SAR and Landsat TM data for agricultural crop classification: comparison and synergy, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 518-526.
Ban, Y. 2002. Fusion of JERS-1, RADARSAT SAR Data and Digital Elevation Model for Land Cover Mapping in the Boreal Environment, JERS-1 SAR for Global Boreal Forest Mapping/Northern Europe (GBFM/NE) Workshop, Feb. 7-8, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ban, Y. and P.J. Howarth. 1999. Multitemporal ERS-1 SAR data for crop classification: a sequential-masking approach. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing¸ Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 438-447.
Ban, Y and P.J. Howarth. 1998. Orbital effects on ERS-1 SAR temporal backscatter profiles of agricultural crops. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 19, No. 17, 3465-3470.
Ban, Y., P.M. Treitz, P.J. Howarth, B. Brisco and R.J. Brown. 1995. Improving the accuracy of synthetic aperture radar for agricultural crop classification. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Special Issue, SAR on Vegetation and Landuse Studies , Vol.21, No. 2, pp. 158-164.
Ban, Y. and Q. Chen. 1989. Remote sensing for urban ecological environment analysis, Nanjing as an example. Journal of Nanjing University (in Chinese).
Ban, Y., J. Wang, C. Dai and D. Hu. 1989. The key techniques for generating 1:50,000 Landsat TM image maps. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 4 (in Chinese).
Hu, D., J. Wang, X. He and Y. Ban, 1989. Digital multi-layer classification methods in land use surveying and mapping: research on land use classification in Nanpi County, Hebei Province. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 4 (in Chinese).
Dai, C., D. Hu, Y. Ban and J. Zhang, 1988. Theoretical basis and practical results of using TM imagery for forest-fire damage analysis. Developments in Remote Sensing, Vol. 4 (in Chinese).
Chen, Q. and Y. Ban, 1986. Mapping river basin geomorphology using Landsat TM imagery, Atlas of grassland resources in Chifeng Area, Inner Mongolia, China. Chinese Science and Technology Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
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