CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Linlin GE

Affiliation: School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems

The University of New South Wales

Sydney N.S.W. 2052, AUSTRALIA

Tel: +61-2-938 54177

Fax: +61-2-9313 7493

Email: l.ge@unsw.edu.au

Present Position: Associate Professor

http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/LinlinGe

Academic Qualifications & Awards:

• B.Eng. (Hons.1), Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping, 1985
• M.Sc., Institute of Seismology, 1988
• Ph.D., University of New South Wales, 2001
• President’s Special Award, Kochi Women’s University, Japan, 2003
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2002-2004.
• Best Tutor Prize, School of Geomatic Engineering, UNSW, 2001.
• Best Student Paper Award, the U.S. Institute of Navigation, 1999.
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), Commonwealth of Australia, 1998-2000.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Science & Technology Agency, Japan, 1997-1998.
• Second Class Scientific and Technological Progress Award, Institute of Seismology, P.R. China, 1995.
• Outstanding Young Researcher Award, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China, 1994.
• Best Paper Award, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China, 1992.
• Best Paper Award, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China, 1991.
• Best Paper Award, Science & Technology Committee, Hubei Province, P.R. China, 1990.
• University Medal, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping, P.R. China, 1985.

Brief Biography:

• 2008 - Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia.
• 2004 - 2007  Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia.
• 2004 - Project Leader and Senior Research Fellow, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia.
• 2007 -           Guest Professor, Wuhan University.
• 2007 -           Guest Professor, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  
• 2006 -           Guest Professor, The State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS).
  
• 2005 - Research Fellow, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• 2002 - 2003  ARC Research Fellow, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
• 2000 - 2001  Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
• 1998 - 2000  Teaching and Research Assistant, the SNAP server administrator, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia.
• 1997 - 1998  Postdoctoral Fellow, Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan.
• 1994 - 1997  Associate Professor and supervisor for Master's degree candidates, Leader of the Computer-based Instrumentation Group, Institute of Seismology, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China.

• 1991 - 1994  Research Associate, Institute of Seismology, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China.
• 1988 - 1991  Research Assistant, Institute of Seismology, China Seismological Bureau, P.R. China.

Professional & Scientific Duties:

Member of Professional Societies:

• 2005- New South Wales Representative on the National Committee of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Commission of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI, Australia)
• 2005- Member and Treasurer of the New South Wales Regional Committee of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI, Australia)
• 2004- Foundation Member, SSI (the Spatial Sciences Institute, Australia)
• 2003- Co-chair, Sub-Commission 4.4 “Applications of Satellite and Airborne Imaging Systems” of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
• 2002- Member, IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
• 2002- Life Member, AGU (the American Geophysical Union)
• 2002- Member, IEEE Communications Society
• 2001- Member, the Calibration and Validation Group for the ENVISAT Radar Satellite, the European Space Agency.
• 2001- Member and regional Director (Australia and New Zealand), the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS)
• 1999 - 2003 Member, Special Study Group (SSG) 2.183 on "Radar Interferometry Technology" within the IAG Section II "Advanced Space Technology".
• 1999- Member, U.S. Institute of Navigation.
• 1997- Member, InSAR Research Association, Japan.
• 1997- Member, Seismological Society of Japan.
• 1988- Member, Seismological Society of China.
• 1988- Member, Chinese Association for Disaster Prevention.
• 1988- Member, Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping.

Member of Editorial Board:

• International Journal of Applied Geodesy
• Journal of Geodesy and Geodynamics
• Journal of Remote Sensing

Reviewer – journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• Journal of Geodesy
• International Journal of Remote Sensing
• GPS Solutions
• Earth, Planets and Space
• Journal of Geodesy and Geodynamics
• Survey Review
• Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Reviewer – Conference Proceedings:

• 2005 Dynamic Planet Conference in Cairns, Australia
• 2005 Spatial Science Conference in Melbourne, Australia
• 2003 IUGG General Assembly in Japan

Member of Conference Planning Committee:

• The Australian Bid Committee for IAG (International Association of Geodesy) 2005 Conference
• Advanced International Workshop on InSAR for Measuring Topography and Deformation of the Earth Surface, December 16-17, 2002, Hong Kong.

Research Student Supervision:

Supervision of research graduate students (total since 2001): 4 candidates for PhD (presently under direct supervision).

Research Grants:

Recent research projects:

• Canadian Space Agency SOAR - Science and Operational Applications Research (2007-2008) “Ground movement monitoring in Australia using Radarsat-2”
• Hebei Provincial Agency of Land and Resources (2006-2008) “Experimental Project on Monitoring Illegal Underground Mining Activities with Satellite Radar Interferometry”
• Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) (2006-2007) “Effects of Surface Topography on Mining Subsidence Damage to River Channels”
• Hong Kong Research Grants Council grant (2006) “A Study on the GIS-Based near Real-Time Radar Interferometry for Monitoring the Surface Subsidence of a Mining Area”
• UNSW Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) (2006) “An Infrastructure for Investigating the Systems and Networking Challenges in Realizing Sensor Network Applications”
• Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) grant (2005-2006) “Airborne Laser Scanner and Radar Interferometry for Digital Topographic Modelling in Coastal Environments of NSW: Wollongong LGA”;
• UNSW Faculty Research Grant (2005) “POLInSAR: Polarimetric SAR Interferometry”
• Australian Defense Force Academy (ADFA) and Faculty of Engineering UNSW Collaborative Research Initiative (2005) “Quantitative Land Cover Change Monitoring Using Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Data”
• European Space Agency, CAT-1 (2005-2007) " InSAR derived crustal deformation of Mani(Tibet) earthquake and the triggering relation with Ms8.1 Kunlun (Tibet) earthquake"
• Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRC-SI) grant (2004-2007) “Digital elevation model generation and differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)”;
• ARC-Linkage grant (2004-2007) “Real-time atmospheric modelling for centimetre-level positioning based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) continuously operating reference station networks”;
• UNSW – RIBG grant (2004) “Equipment (Software and Hardware) Support for New Research Direction: Radar Remote Sensing”;
• European Space Agency, CAT-1 (2004-2006) "Study on Crustal Deformation and Mechanism of Strong Earthquake Swarm in Jiashi Area of Xinjiang Province, China Using GPS and InSAR Technology";
• ARC-Linkage International grant (2003-2004) “An Integrated Ground Deformation Monitoring System Based on the Integration of InSAR, GPS and GIS Technologies”
• UNSW-FRG grant (2003-2004) “Automated Intelligent Building Monitoring with Multi-Sensor GPS, Accelerometer, and FBG Systems”;
• UNSW-FRG grant (2003) “Generation of High Accuracy and High Resolution Digital Elevation Models Using Multi-modal Satellite Radar Interferometry”;
• Geoscience Australia grant (2003) “Generation of a Differential Radar Interferogram of the Burakin Area, Western Australia, Using Satellite Radar Data”;
• ARC Discovery grant (2002-2004) "Integrated GPS and Interferometric SAR Techniques for Ground Subsidence Monitoring”;
• Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) grant (2002-2003) “Monitoring Ground Subsidence Due To Underground Mining Using Integrated Space Geodetic Techniques”;
• European Space Agency grant (2001-2004) “Integrated interferometric SAR and GPS techniques for ground subsidence monitoring”;
• ARC Small grant (1999) “Terrain Monitoring by Differential SAR and GPS”.

Research Interests:

• Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR).
• Kinematic interpretation of CORS data (the so-called “GPS seismometers”).
• Analysis of single-frequency GPS observations with the aid of dual-frequency GPS data.
• Structural health monitoring using GPS and optical fibre sensors.
• GPS meteorology.

Teaching Interests:

• Surveying for Mining Engineers
• Surveying for Civil Engineers
• Electronic Surveying Instrumentation: Principles and Practice
• Principles of Remote Sensing
• Microwave Remote Sensing
• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)

Consultancies:

Contract research projects to industry and government agencies: GPS-InSAR investigations for ground displacement monitoring; Continuous GPS data analysis; Structural health monitoring systems.

Publications:

Several publications and conference papers in the areas of radar interferometry, satellite geodesy and GPS (view full list at http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/LinlinGe/Publication or http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/snap/about/publications_author.htm).