Zhenhong Li

Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow, Business Technology Transfer Course in London Business School, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2004.09-2005.06

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2008.09-2010.08

Current research interests

My principal research interests include the use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) for monitoring changes in the Earth’s surface for geophysical and engineering applications such as earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and city subsidence. I specialize in development of advanced space geodesy techniques for precise deformation mapping.

- InSAR atmospheric correction models

- Advanced InSAR time series techniques

- High-rate GPS data processing

- Earthquake: fault geometry determination with geodetic measurements

- Earthquake: slip distribution constrained by geodetic measurements

- Continental deformation

- Ground subsidence in River Deltas

- Structural deformation of dams and buildings

Professional Affiliations

(1) Chair of the IAG sub-commission 4.4: Applications of Satellite and Airborne Imaging Systems (2011-present)

(2) Council Member of the UK Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc, 2010-present); Chairman of the RSPSoc Special Interest Group (SIG) Committee (2011-present); Fellow of RSPSoc (FRSPSoc, elected in March 2010).

(3) Member of the UK NERC Space Geodesy Facilities Steering Committee (2010-2014)

(4) Life individual member of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE)

(5) Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

(6) Member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS)

Journal reviews

(1) Survey Review – Editorial Board Member

(2) Earthquake Science – Editorial Board Member

(3) Nature Geoscience

(4) Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (JGR - Solid Earth)

(5) Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (JGR - Atmospheres)

(6) Geophysical Research Letters (GRL)

(7) Geophysical Journal International (GJI)

(8) Radio Science

(9) Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA)

(10) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)

(11) IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)

(12) International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS)

(13) Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE)

(14) Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)

(15) Annales Geophysicae

(16) Atmospheric Research

(17) Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (JTECH)

(18) Journal of Geodesy (JoG)

(19) Computers & Geosciences

(20) Sensors

(21) Tectonophysics

(22) International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

(23) Journal of Oceanography

(24) The Geographical Journal

(25) Kuwait Journal of Science & Engineering

(26) International Journal of Digital Earth

(27) Artificial Satellites

(28) Journal of Electronics (China)

(29) Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University (in Chinese)

Selected publications

Tomás, R., Z. Li, P. Liu, A. Singleton, T. Hoey, and X. Cheng (2011), Radar Interferometry for characterizing the Huangtupo landslide in the Three Gorges region, China, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Science, under review.
Wen, Y., Z. Li, C. Xu, I. Ryder, and R. Bürgmann (2011), Postseismic motion after the 2001 MW 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake in Tibet observed by InSAR time series, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, under revision.
Hammond, W. C., G. Blewitt, Z. Li, H.-P. Plag, and C. W. Kreemer, 2012, Contemporary uplift of the Sierra Nevada, western United States from GPS and InSAR measurements, Geology, in press.
Li, P., C. Shi, Z. Li, J.-P. Muller, J. Drummond, X. Li, T. Li, Y. Li, and J. Liu, 2012, Evaluation of ASTER GDEM Using GPS Benchmarks and SRTM in China, International Journal of Remote Sensing, in press.
Elliott, J. R., E. K. Nissen, P. C. England, J. A. Jackson, S. Lamb, Z. Li, M. Oehlers, and B. Parsons, 2012, Slip in the 2010–2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 117, B03401, doi:10.1029/2011JB008868.
Liu, P., Z. Li, T. Hoey, C. Kincal, J. Zhang, J.-P. Muller, and Q. Zeng, 2011, Using advanced InSAR time series techniques to monitor landslide movements in Badong of the Three Gorges region, China, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, online.
Li, Z., P. Pasquali, A. Cantone, A. Singleton, G. Funning, and D. Forrest, 2012. MERIS atmospheric water vapor correction model for Wide Swath Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (PDF), 9(2), 257-261.
Li, Z., J. R. Elliott, W. Feng, J. A. Jackson, B. Parsons, and R. J. Walters, 2011. The 2010 Mw 6.8 Yushu (Qinghai, China) earthquake: Constraints provided by InSAR and body wave seismology, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (PDF; Supplementary Material), 116(B10), B10302.
Li, Z., W. Qu, K. Young, and Q. Zhang, 2011. Earthquake source parameters of the 2009 Mw 7.8 Fiordland (New Zealand) earthquake from L-band Interferometric SAR observations, Earthquake Science (PDF), 24(2), 199-206.
Liu, Y., C. Xu, Z. Li, Y. Wen, and D. Forrest (2011), Interseismic slip rate of the Garze-Yushu fault belt in the Tibetan Plateau from C-band InSAR observations between 2003 and 2010, Advances in Space Research (PDF), online.
Pi, X., A. Freeman, B. Chapman, P. Rosen, and Z. Li, 2011. Imaging Ionospheric Inhomogeneities Using Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar, Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics (PDF), 116, A04303.
Zhang, Q., W. Qu, Q. Wang, J. Peng, J. Drummond, Z. Li, and Q. Lin, 2011, Analysis of present tectonic stress and regional ground fissure formation mechanism of the Weihe Basin, Survey Review, in press.
Elliott, J.R., R.J.Walters, England, P.C., Jackson, J.A., Li, Z. & Parsons, B., 2010. Extension in Tibet: Recent Normal Faulting measured by InSAR & BodyWave Seismology, Geophysical Journal International, online.
Xu, C., Wang, J., Li, Z. & Drummond, J., 2010. Applying the Coulomb failure function with an optimally oriented plane to the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake triggering, Tectonophysics (PDF), 491(1-4), 119-126.
Li, Z., Fielding, E.J. & Cross, P., 2009. Integration of InSAR time series analysis and water vapour correction for mapping postseismic deformation after the 2003 Bam, Iran Earthquake, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (PDF) (Movie), 47, 3220-3230.
Li, Z., Fielding, E.J., Cross, P. & Preusker, R., 2009. Advanced InSAR atmospheric correction: MERIS/MODIS combination and stacked water vapour models, International Journal of Remote Sensing (PDF), 30, 3343-3363.
Li, Z., Liu, Y., Zhou, X., Cross, P., and Feng, W., 2009. Using small baseline Interferometric SAR to map nonlinear ground motion: A case study in northern Tibet, Journal of Applied Geodesy (PDF), 3, 163-170.
Konca, A.O., Avouac, J.-P., Sladen, A., Meltzner, A.J., Sieh, K., Fang, P., Li, Z., Galetzka, J., Genrich, J., Chlieh, M., Natawidjaja, D.H., Bock, Y., Fielding, E.J., Ji, C. & Helmberger, D.V., 2008. Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence (PDF), Nature, 456, 631-635.
Li, Z., 2008. Reduction of atmospheric water vapour effects on ENVISAT ASAR interferograms using MERIS near IR measurements (European Science Foundation Award for an excellent paper by a young author) (PDF). in The XXI Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Beijing, China, 3-11 July 2008.
Li, Z., Feng, W., Xu, Z., Cross, P. & Zhang, J., 2008. The 1998 Mw 5.7 Zhangbei-Shangyi earthquake revisited: a buried thrust fault revealed with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PDF), Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), 9, Q04026.
Li, Z., E.J. Fielding, P. Cross, and J.-P. Muller, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar atmospheric correction: MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar integration (PDF), Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L06816, 2006.
Li, Z., E.J. Fielding, P. Cross, and J.-P. Muller, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar atmospheric correction: GPS topography-dependent turbulence model (PDF), Journal of Geophysical Research, 111 (B2), B02404, 2006.
Li, Z., J.-P. Muller, P. Cross, P. Albert, J. Fischer, and R. Bennartz, Assessment of the potential of MERIS near-infrared water vapour products to correct ASAR interferometric measurements (PDF), International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27 (1-2), 349-365, 2006.
Li, Z., J.-P. Muller, P. Cross, and E.J. Fielding, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) atmospheric correction: GPS, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and InSAR integration (PDF), Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 110, No. B3, B03410, 2005.
Li, Z., Correction of atmospheric water vapour effects on repeat-pass SAR interferometry using GPS, MODIS and MERIS data (PDF), PhD thesis, University College London, London, 2005.
Li, Z., Production of Regional 1 km × 1 km Water Vapor Fields through the Integration of GPS and MODIS Data (PDF, Winner of Student Paper Prize and Best Paper Presentation), in ION GNSS 2004, Long Beach, California, 21-24 Sep, 2004.
Li, Z., J.-P. Muller, and P. Cross, Comparison of precipitable water vapor derived from radiosonde, GPS, and Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer measurements (PDF), Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. D20, 4651, 2003.

Dr Zhenhong Li

Senior Lecturer in Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing

Programme Coordinator of MSc in Geospatial and Mapping Science (G&MS)

School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

University of Glasgow

East Quadrangle

University Avenue

Glasgow G12 8QQ

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)141 330 2289

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Email: Zhenhong.Li@glasgow.ac.uk

Web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/zhenhongli

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