Ting Liu, Ph.D
Geography and Environmental Studies
Associate Professor, GIS Coordinator, Geography Advisor
Office:
Room BBH 344H
Phone:
(773) 442-5645
Email:
t-liu1@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
Spring 2025 Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (in-person or via Zoom) Wednesday: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (Zoom) Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (Zoom) Available outside these hours by appointment.
Country:
United States
GES 372: GIS Across Disciplines
GES 302K: Regional Geography: East Asia
GES 313: Land Use and Land Cover Change
GES 351: Spatial Statistics
GES 383: Internship in G&ES
GES 387: Interactive Cartography
GES 388: Field Camp
GES 390: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
GES 392: Geospatial Analysis
GES 393: GIS Modeling And Programming
GES 395: GIS Internship
GES 416: GIS for Natural Systems Management
GES 417: Urban Information Systems
GES 442: Geographic Problems in Quantitative Measurements
Research Interests
Urban Remote Sensing, GIS, and Spatial Analysis
Education
Ph.D., Geography, Florida State University
M.S., Geographic Information Science, Florida State University
B.S., Urban and Rural Planning, Resource Management, Peking University, Beijing, China
Selected Publications
Schirmer, A.E., Gallemore, C., Liu, T. et al. 2019. Mapping behaviorally relevant light pollution levels to improve urban habitat planning. Scientific Reports 9, 11925
Liu, T. and Yang, X, 2019. Monitoring urban growth and land changes in Beijing, China's capital city by remote sensing: progress and challenges. In: X. Yang and S. Jiang (Eds.), Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Liu, T. and Yang, X. 2015. Land change modeling: status and challenges. In: J. Li and X. Yang (Eds), Monitoring and Modeling of Global Changes: A Geomatics Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer.
Liu, T. and Yang, X. 2015. Monitoring land changes in an urban area using satellite imagery, GIS and landscape metrics. Applied Geography, 56:42-54
Liu, T. and Yang, X. 2013. Mapping vegetation in an urban area with stratified classification and multiple end member spectral mixture analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment, 130:251-264
Liu, T. and Yang, X. 2012. Geospatial modeling of urban landscape changes through an agent-based approach. Proceedings of the 2012 AutoCarto International Symposium on Automated Cartography, Columbus, Ohio, September 16-18, 2012
Zhao, T., Brown, D., Fang, H., Theobald, D., Liu, T., and Zhang, T. 2012. Vegetation productivity consequences of human settlement growth in the eastern United States. Landscape Ecology, 27(8):1149-1165