Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
School of Design and the Built Environment
Curtin University
Perth, 6102, WA, Australia
Email: yongze.song@curtin.edu.au
Dr. Yongze Song is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Doctoral Supervisor at Curtin University, Australia. He is a Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Fellow, United Kingdom, DAAD AInet Fellow, Germany, and a Publications Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG).
He has expertise in developing geospatial methods and implementing Earth data for sustainable infrastructure. He developed more than 16 new geospatial methods and 8 R software packages with over 110,000 downloads for understanding geographical and spatial data. He published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 6 highly-cited papers. He is a recipient of more than ten awards at international and national levels, such as the Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars, the Global Top 10 Young Scientist Award, and the Australian National Location Data First Prize.
He is an Editorial Board Member of over 10 international peer-reviewed journals, including GIScience & Remote Sensing, iScience, International Journal of Digital Earth, Remote Sensing, Geo-spatial Information Science, Annals of GIS, etc. He serves as a Guest Editor for journals of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Science of Remote Sensing, etc. He serves as a Chair or Program Committee Member for international conferences held in Australia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Norway, China, France, the United States, Canada, Iran, Vanuatu, and Greece. He serves 40 peer-reviewed journals as a reviewer. He was invited to present more than 60 research seminars at universities (e.g., Harvard University, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, etc.) and industries globally.
Research Interests
Sustainable development, spatial statistics, geospatial theories, sustainable infrastructure, megaproject management
Developed New Geospatial Theories and Methods
Part I. Spatial prediction models
- Geographically Optimal Similarity (GOS). Mathematical Geosciences.
- Generalized Heterogeneity Model (GHM). International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Second-Dimension Spatial Association (SDA). International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
- Segment-based Regression Kriging (SRK). IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Dynamic Trade-Off Model (DTOM). IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Part II. Spatial factor exploration models
- Geocomplexity explains spatial errors. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detector (OPGD). GIScience & Remote Sensing.
- Interactive Detector for Spatial Associations (IDSA). International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Geographically Optimal Zones-based Heterogeneity (GOZH). ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
- Wavelet Geographically Weighted Regression (WGWR). Scientific Reports.
- Robust Geographical Detector (RGD). International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
Part III. Other geospatial theories and models
- Spatial Trade-Off Relation (STOR) for spatial quantity-quality relationship modelling. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
- MFSD model for spatial decision making. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
- Spatial Heterogeneity-based Segmentation (SHS) for the homogeneous segmentation of line data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- D2SFCA model for the spatiotemporal accessibility analysis. GIScience & Remote Sensing.
- Spatial Big Data Method for redefining cities. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
Developed Open-Source Geospatial Software (100,000+ downloads)
Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detectors (OPGD) for spatial factor exploration.
Geographically Optimal Similarity (GOS) for spatial prediction.
R package “geosimilarity” | publication
Interactive Detector for Spatial Association (IDSA) for spatial factor exploration.
R package “IDSA” | publication
Energy Decomposition Analysis (EDA) for analysing carbon emission factors.
Wavelet Spatial (WS) model for wavelet-based spatial prediction
Leadership and Services
Leadership in International Academic Societies
- Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), United Kingdom
- DAAD AInet Fellow, Germany
- Committee Member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)
- Member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), WG IV/2
Leadership in the University
- Faculty Graduate Studies Committee (FGSC) Member, 2023-
- University Reviewer for Peer Review of Educational Practice (PREP), 2022-
- School Research Committee Member, 2023-
- Chair and Reviewer of the Milestone Oral Presentation of HDR students, 2022-
- Assistance for the ERA (Education Research Abstracts) development process for school, 2022
- Faculty Research Committee Member, 2021-2022
Editorial Experience
Associate Editor
- All Earth, Taylor & Francis. IF 2.750
Editorial Board Member
- GIScience & Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis. IF 6.238
- Geoscientific Model Development, European Geosciences Union. IF 6.892
- International Journal of Digital Earth, Taylor & Francis. IF 4.606
- Remote Sensing, MDPI. IF 5.349
- Geo-spatial Information Science, Taylor & Francis. IF 4.278
- Journal of Spatial Science, Taylor & Francis. IF 1.840
- Scientific Reports, Nature. IF 4.996
- Annals of GIS, Taylor & Francis.
- Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Elsevier.
Guest Editor
- iScience: Special Issue “GeoAI Shaping Earth and Cities: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges“
- Science of Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Wildfire Remote Sensing“
- Annals of GIS: Special Issue “Geospatial Big Data: Theory, Methods, and Applications“
- Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing for Mapping Global Land Surface Parameters“
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: Special Issue “Recent Advances in Geocomputation and GeoAI for Mapping“
- Sustainable Earth: Article Collection “Earth Observation for Mapping Sustainability”
- Remote Sensing: Special Issue “Remote Sensing on Land Surface Albedo”
Research Team
Awards
- Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars, 2023
- Special Thanks Award: The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
- Global Young Scientist Award (Top 10), 2021
- Global Peer Review Award: Top reviewers in Geosciences (Top 1%) and Top reviewers in Cross-field (Top 1%), Publons, 2020
- Chancellor’s Award for Exceptionally High Standard in the PhD Thesis, Curtin University, 2019
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (Top 0.1% Globally), 2019
- National Honourable Mention: Exploring the Oceans Award, GovHack, Australia, 2018
- National Honourable Mention: STEM Award, GovHack, Australia, 2017
- Australian National First Prize: Location Data First Prize, GovHack, Australia, 2016
Chair or Committee Member for International Conferences
Conferences in over 10 countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Norway, China, France, the United States, Canada, Iran, Vanuatu, and Greece.
- Conference Chair. City+2023@Perth International Conference, 8-10 September 2023, Perth, Australia
- Chair of Session “Spatial Association”, IAMG 2023 (22nd Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 5-12, 2023, Trondheim, Norway
- Chair of Topics Webinar EO&GEO Series: GIS in the Management of Sustainable and Smart Cities, journals of Remote Sensing, Drones, ISPRS IJGI, and Land, 9 March 2023
- Logistics Chair. The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 5-8, December 2022, Perth, Australia
- Chair of Session “Ethical Artificial Intelligence”, The 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 5-8, December 2022, Perth, Australia
- Chair of Session “Spatial Association”, IAMG 2022 (21st Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 29-Sep. 3, 2022, Nancy, France
- Chair of Session “Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modeling: Scale and Spatial Associations”, 2022 AAG Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2022, New York City, United States
- Keynote Speaker. The Fifth International Workshop on Environment and Geoscience (IWEG2022), 16-18 July 2022, China
- Program Committee Member. GIScience 2023: The 12 International Conference on Geographic Information Science. 12 – 15th September, 2023. Leeds, UK.
- Program Committee Member. The 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2023), The ISPRS 2023 Geospatial Week, 2-7, September 2023, Cario, Egypt
- Program Committee Member. IAMG 2023 (22nd Annual Conference), the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Aug. 5-12, 2023, Trondheim, Norway
- Program Committee Member. AGILE 2023 (the 26rd Conference), the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), 13-16 June 2023, Delft, Netherlands
- Program Committee Member. 7th Smart Data and Smart Cities Conference & 17th 3DGeoinfo Conference, 19 – 21 October 2022, Sydney, Australia
- Program Committee Member. Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and Modelling, 2022 AAG Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2022, New York City, United States
- Program Committee Member. 7th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE’22), 5-7 June, 2022, Niagara Falls, Canada
- Program Committee Member. Geospatial Conference 2022, ISPRS International Joint Conferences, 15-18 Oct, 2022, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Special Issue Coordinator. World Building Congress (WBC2022), and The 9th International Conference on Innovative Production and Construction (IPC2022), Joint Conference, 27-30 June 2022, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Program Committee Member. AGILE 2021 (the 24rd Conference), the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE), 8-11 June, 2021, Crete, Greece
- Special Issue Coordinator. Pacific Islands GIS & RS Conference 2021 (PGRSC-2021), The Pacific GIS & Remote Sensing Council, 22-23 November, 2021, Port Vila, Vanuatu
Reviewer for Books (Publishers):
- John Wiley & Sons. https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Reviewer for Refereed Journals, A – Z:
- Annals of GIS
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- AIMS Mathematics
- Applied Sciences
- Asian Geographer
- Austrian Journal of Statistics
- Big Earth Data
- Buildings
- Built Environment Project and Asset Management
- Complexity
- Computers and Geosciences
- Energies
- Environmental Earth Sciences
- Environmental Impact Assessment Review
- Environmental Research Communications
- Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
- Environmental Science & Technology
- GIScience & Remote Sensing
- Heliyon
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of Digital Earth
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- International Journal of Green Energy
- International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization
- Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
- Nature Communications
- PLOS One
- R Journal
- Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing of Environment
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
- Resources, Conservation & Recycling
- Science of The Total Environment
- Sensors
- Sustainability
- Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
- Sustainable Cities and Society
- Transactions in GIS