Wanxiao Sun

Wanxiao Sun received the B.S. degree in computer-assisted cartography from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, the M.S. degree in remote sensing and GIS from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing and GIS from University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, in 1999. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Her present research interests focus on image classification and feature extraction algorithms applied to remotely sensed data, information fusion of multiresolution data, the integration of remote sensing and GIS techniques in environmental monitoring, management and planning, and 3-D visualization and simulation.