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Xuan Zhu

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"Theory and techniques of geographical information science (GIS); GIS applications in environmental management, land use planning, business and service planning; decision support systems for regional sustainable development; environmental decision analysis and modelling; land use analysis and modelling; remote sensing of the environment; GIS in Schools."

Education

PhD (1995) in Geographical Information Systems, the University of Edinburgh, UK
MSc (1986) in Cartography and Remote Sensing, Nanjing University, P.R. China
BSc (1983) in Cartography, Nanjing University, P.R. China

Expertise

Teaching

Research and Development Experience

1987 - 1990

Development of the Loess Plateau Information System for the Sanchuan River Basin in China, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Involved in the development of software for map data processing and manipulation, and the land suitability model for the Sanchuan River Basin, Shanxi Province in China.
1991 - 1995 Development of a knowledge-based spatial decision support system, ILUDSS, for rural land use planning on the island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland, UK.
1996 - 1997 Development of a wave energy information system for Ireland, collaborating with the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland
1997 Research and report on the feasibility of creating an information system to facilitate greater compliance and conservation within the CFP (Common Fisheries Policy), funded by the European Commission Directorate-General XIV. A collaborative research with Paradigm Technology Limited Dublin, Peregrine Systems Limited Dublin and University of Amsterdam. Involved in the development of a framework for integrating GIS, an expert system and a hypertext search engine.
1997 - 2000 Research and development of decision support systems (DSS) for regional resource use planning, in CHRRUPP (the Central Highlands Regional Resource Use Planning Project) funded by Land & Water Resources R&D Corporation (LWRRDC). Designed and developed JavaAHP (a web-based decision analysis tool for natural resource management), MOCA (a multi-objective decision support tool for project evaluation and prioritisation in regional resource use planning), WebMap (a web-based map browsing and query tool) and VegMan (a web-based information system for regional vegetation management).
2000 - 2001 Design of decision support tools for sustainable resource use in sugar production areas in the Northern Queensland of Australia, which is part of a project funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Sugar Production. Involved in the strategic planning and design of the NRM Tools (a toolkit for natural resource management), development and implementation of a Cane Land Allocation Model by integrating GIS and multi-criteria modelling, and development of a land use planning tool by integrating GIS and genetic algorithms.
2000 - 2001 Involved in the development of the framework for integrated ecological and economic modelling, which is a sub-project of a research project on ecologically sustainable development of land, water and marine resources in the Ord-Bonaparte region of Western Australia, funded by LWRRDC, CSIRO, the State of Western Australia and other government agencies and R&D corporations.
2002 - 2003 The evaluation of accessibility by public transport in Singapore using GIS
2002 - 2004 A study on current status and future possibilities of GIS supported education in schools in Singapore, funded by the Academic Research Fund of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2003 - present Knowledge Integration and Exchange in Coastal Zone Management Decision Making, a project of Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, Australia (Coastal CRC ). Being involved in the development of a multi-criteria decision analysis tool.

Publications

Journal articles

  1. Zhu, X. and S. Liu, 2004, Analysis of the Impact of the MRT system on accessibility in Singapore using an integrated GIS tool. Journal of Transport Geography , Vol.12, No.2, pp.89-101.
  2. Liu, S. and X. Zhu, 2004, Accessibility Analyst: An integrated GIS tool for accessibility analysis in urban transportation planning. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol.31, No.1, pp.105 – 124.
  3. Liu, S. and X. Zhu, 2004, An integrated GIS approach to accessibility analysis. Transactions in GIS, Vol.8, No.1, pp.45-62.
  4. Zhu, X., 2001, Developing Web-based mapping applications through distributed object technology. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol.28, No.4, pp.249-258.
  5. Zhu, X., J. McCosker, A. Dale and R. Bischof, 2001, Web-based decision support for regional vegetation management. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol.25, No.6, pp.605-627.
  6. Zhu, X. and A.P. Dale, 2001, JavaAHP: A Web-based decision analysis tool for natural resource and environmental management. Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol.16, No.3, pp.251-262.
  7. Zhu, X. and A.P. Dale, 2000, Identifying opportunities for decision support systems in support of regional resource use planning: an approach through soft systems methodology. Environmental Management, Vol. 26, No.4, pp.371-384.
  8. Zhu, X., R. G. Healey and R. J. Aspinall, 1998, A knowledge-based systems approach to the design of spatial decision support systems for environmental management. Environmental Management, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 35-48.
  9. Zhu, X., 1997, An integrated environment for developing knowledge-based spatial decision support systems. Transactions in GIS, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.285-300.
  10. Zhu, X., R. J. Aspinall and R. G. Healey, 1996, ILUDSS: A knowledge-based spatial decision support system for strategic land use planning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture , Vol.15, No.4, pp.279-301.
  11. Zhu, X., 1988, Computer-aided map overlay analysis and its applications to the studies of natural resources. Journal of Natural Resources, Science Press, China, Vol.3, No.2, pp.174-185.
  12. Zhu, X., 1987, An approach to multi-element analysis by automatic map overlay in geographical information systems. Journal of Nanjing University-Geography, pp.184-197.

Book Chapters

  1. Dale, A., Bellamy, J., Bischof, R., Zhu, X., Laredo, L. and Pollock, L., 2000, Building a better system of regional planning for sustainability. Chapter 6 in P. Hale, A. Petrie, D. Moloney and P. Sattler (Eds.), Management for Sustainable Ecosystems (pp. 34-45). Brisbane, Australia: Centre for Conservation Biology, the University of Queensland.
  2. Zhu, X., 1997, An architecture for knowledge-based spatial decision support systems. In: Kraak, M.J. and Molenaar, M. (Editors), Advances in GIS Research II - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, August 12-16, 1996, Delft, the Netherlands, Taylor & Francis, London, pp.65-76
  3. Zhu, X., L. Zhang and X. Yu, 1993, Land suitability evaluation for Sanchuan river basin, In: Y. Sun et al (eds.), Research on Loess Plateau Information Systems II, Surveying and Mapping Press, China, pp.202-209.
  4. Zhu, X., 1990, Binary trees and their applications to cartographic data processing, in: Y. Sun et al (eds.), Research on Loess Plateau Information Systems, Surveying and Mapping Press, China, pp.107-113.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Zhu, X. and S. Liu, 2003, Multi-modal measurements of accessibility in a desktop GIS environment. Proceedings of Spatial Sciences 2003 (on CD) , 22-27 September 2003, Canberra, Australia .
  2. Greiner, R. and X. Zhu, 2001, Systems framework for integrated regional-scale R&D projects. F. Ghassemi, M. McAleer, L. Oxley and M. Scoccimarro (eds.), Proceedings of MODSIM 2001 – International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Vol.3, 10-13 December 2001, Canberra, Australia, pp.1225-1230.
  3. Zhu, X., D. Walker and C. Mayocchi, 2001, Integrating multi-criteria modelling and GIS for sugarcane land allocation. F. Ghassemi, M. McAleer, L. Oxley and M. Scoccimarro (eds.), Proceedings of MODSIM 2001 – International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Vol.3, 10-13 December 2001, Canberra, Australia, pp.1103-1108.
  4. Dale, A., S. Cowell, J. Bellamy, X. Zhu and R. Bischof, 2000, Placing decision support tools in context: where do they fit in a planning systems approach to natural resource management? The proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management (MODSS’99) , 1-6 August 1999, Brisbane, Australia .
  5. Bischof, R.J., X. Zhu, A. Dale and L.A. Laredo, 2000, Regional planning information systems – more than information supply. The proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management (MODSS’99) , 1-6 August, 1999, Brisbane, Australia.
  6. Zhu, X., 2000, MOCA: A decision support tool for project evaluation and prioritisation in regional resource use planning. The proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management (MODSS’99) , 1-6 August 1999, Brisbane, Australia.

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