Dr. Yong Ge is a Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Jiangxi Normal University, China. Dr. Ge received her PhD in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from the Institute for Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2001. Her research focuses on the quantitative analysis of geographical elements and geostatistics/spatial statistics, and their applications. Dr. Ge has published more than 200 academic papers in high impact journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, and AAAG. She has received many high impact competitive awards and funds for her work, including the National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize and recognition as part of Winner of the National Science Fund For Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2017), the Outstanding Scientist Award of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering (2017) and the "Top Ten Research Progresses in Chinese Geographical Science in 2022".
EDUCATION
2001 Ph.D. in Cartography and GIS, Institute of Geographic Science & Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
1998 M.Eng. in Geomatics, Wuhan University, China
1995 B.Eng. in Geomatics, Wuhan University, China
WORK
2024.06 – present Vice president of Jiangxi Normal University, China
2023.06 – present Director, Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of Education (Jiangxi Normal University), China
2016.01 –2024.10 Vice Director, LREIS, IGSNRR, CAS, China
2014.07 – present Director, Department of Cartography, IGSNRR, CAS, China
2011.12 – present Professor, IGSNRR, CAS, China
2004.01 – 2011.11 Associate Professor, IGSNRR, CAS, China
2001.07– 2004.01 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Geographic Science & Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
SELECTED PAPERS
Wenbin Zhang, Yong Ge*, Shengjie Lai and Peter M Atkinson (2024). Scaling geospatial data from the perspective of complexity: Exploring the scaling behaviour of the entropogram, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2377227.
Yong Ge*, Shan Hu, Yongze Song, Hua Zheng, Yansui Liu, Xinyue Ye, Ting Ma, Mengxiao Liu, Chenghu Zhou*, Sustainable poverty reduction models for the coordinated development of the social economy and environment in China. Science Bulletin. doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.015
Wen-Bin Zhang, Yong Ge*, Hexiang Bai, Yan Jin and Alfred Stein, Peter M Atkinson* (2023). Spatial association from the perspective of mutual information. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(8), 1960-1976.
Hexiang Bai*, Hui Wang, Deyu Li and Yong Ge*(2023). Information consistency-based measures for spatial stratified heterogeneity. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(10), 2512-2524.
Yong Ge*, Ting Ma, Tao Pei, Huixian Weng, Xin Li, Xining Zhang (2022). Progress of big geodata. Science Bulletin. 67, 1739–1742.
Yong Ge*, Mengxiao Liu, Shan Hu, Daoping Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Sarchil Qader, Eimear Cleary, AndrewTatem, and Shengjie Lai * (2022). Who and which regions are at high risk of returning to poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic? Humanities &Social Sciences Communications. 9, 183.
Yong Ge*, Wenbin Zhang, Xilin Wu, Corrine W Ruktanonchai, Haiyan Liu, Jianghao Wang, Yongze Song, Mengxiao Liu, Wei Yan, Eimear Cleary, Sarchil H Qader, Fatumah Atuhaire, Nick W Ruktanonchai, Andrew J Tatem, Shengjie Lai * (2022). Untangling the changing impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination on European COVID-19 trajectories. Nature Communications. 13(1), 3106.
Yong Ge*, Xining Zhang, Peter M. Atkinson, Alfred Stein, Lianfa Li (2022). Geoscience-aware deep learning: a new paradigm for remote sensing. Science of Remote Sensing. 5 (2022) 100047.
Yong Ge*, Yan Jin, Alfred Stein, Yuehong Chen, Jianghao Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Qiuming Cheng, Hexiang Bai, Mengxiao Liu, Peter M. Atkinson. Principles and methods of scaling geospatial Earth science data. Earth-Science Reviews. 197(2019)102897.
Yong Ge*, Yuehong Chen, Alfred Stein, Sanping Li and Jianlong Hu(2016). Enhanced Sub-pixel Mapping with Spatial Distribution Patterns of Geographical Objects. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(4): 2356-2370.
CONTACT INFORMATION
State Key Laboratory of Resources & Environmental Information System
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100101, P.R. China
Phone: +86-10-64888053
E-mail: gey@lreis.ac.cn;
Fax: +86-10-64889630
Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research
Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University,
Nanchang 330022, China
Phone: +86-791-88120537
Email：gy@jxnu.edu.cn
