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Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation(ITC), University of Twente

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School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University

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Biography

Shaoqing Dai(戴劭勍) is a postdoctoral researcher from School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University. He finished his Ph.D. in the Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation(ITC), University of Twente. He earned a Master degree and a Bachelor degree from the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University respectively. He is a fellow of the International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Health (ISLE), a visiting scholar of AI 4D City Lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), a contributor to GeoDa Center, rgeoda, libgeoda Github organizations, and a volunteer of Sustainable Cities & Mobility.

Interests

  • Health Geography
  • Urban Visual Intelligence
  • Spatial Lifecourse Health
  • Spatial Statistics
  • GeoAI
  • Spatial-Temporal Big Data

Education

  • Ph.D in Geoinformatics, 2024

    University of Twente, the Netherlands

  • MS.c in Ecology, 2019

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • BS.c in Geographical Science (National Talents Training Base), 2016

    Fujian Normal University, China

Recent Key News

More News

  • Jul. 1, 2026: Shaoqing Dai has been invited to join the inaugural Editorial Board of npj Digital Public Health.

  • Mar. 2, 2026: As the principal investigator, Shaoqing Dai was granted one Open Fund project of the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System in 2025. The announcement

  • Feb. 14, 2026: Shaoqing Dai has been selected as a Youth Editorial Board Member of Journal of Subtropical Resources and Environment.

  • Jan. 07, 2026: Our published paper has been selected for inclusion in the textbook Medical Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Applications. This textbook, a core curriculum material for the Ministry of Education’s “101 Project” and a recommended text for preventive medicine programs, is chief-edited by Xifeng Wu, Guihua Zhuang, Yan Jin, Chaolong Wang, and Chen Mao, and has been published recently.

  • Dec. 10, 2025: Shaoqing Dai received the certificate of the Best Oral Presentation Award in the 3rd Urban Agglomeration Green Development Conference.

  • Nov. 15, 2025: Shaoqing Dai has been appointed as an Editorial Board Member of BMC Public Health, and has been serving as a Handling Editor for BMC Public Health since 2026, processing the peer review of related submissions.

Teaching Experience

  • Personalized cultivation week program, UG course, Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, School of Carbon Neutrality Future Techonology, Fujian Normal University, 2025
  • Health Geography, PG course, Lecturer, School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 2024-2025
  • Spatial Epidemiology Analysis Mehtods and Applications, Training course, Lecturer, China CDC National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, 2024
  • Health Geography, UG course, Lecturer, School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, 2024-2025

Projects

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All Urban Carbon Cycle Air Pollution Map Virtual Geographical Environment Spatial-Temporal GIS Theory Urban Blue and Green Space Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Urban Visual Intelligence

Urban Visual Intelligence

We develop street view imagery-based urban visual intelligence, from SVI coverage generation to GeoAI and LLM visual-semantic sensing, …

Air Pollution Map

We used multi-source data, machine learning, and spatial statistics to develop accurate air pollution maps and assess their health …

Spatial Lifecourse Health

Spatial Lifecourse Health was proposed by my supervisor, Prof. Peng Jia. This is the basic theory of My PhD project.

Urban Blue and Green Space

We study how the patterns of urban blue and green space shape the urban environment, from stormwater simulation and urban flooding to …

Urban Carbon Cycle

We used machine learning, spatial statistics, ecological process models, and remote sensing to construct maps of the urban carbon …

Spatial-Temporal GIS Theory

We explored the spatial-temporal GIS theory and its applications, from crime geography and urban element mapping to causal discovery …

Virtual Geographical Environment

I’m interested in virtual geographical environments(VGEs).

Featured Publications

April 2026 In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Bridging street view coverage disparities through geographic identity preserving generation from satellite view

We proposed GeoIdentity-Sat2Street, a geographic identity preserving satellite-to-street-view generation framework that expands street view coverage in data-scarce regions.

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January 2025 In Habitat International

Toward 3D hedonic price model for vertically developed cities using street view images and machine learning methods

we developed a 3D hedonic price model for vertically developed cities using street view images and machine learning methods.

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Recent Publications

Evaluating the Marginal Contribution of Remote Sensing for Forest Biomass Estimation When Inventory Data Exists

A critical assessment showing that when high-quality forest inventory data exist, adding optical remote sensing brings only marginal …
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Toward precision urban resilience: Integrating multimodal large language models with spatial analytics for fire risk governance

An MLLM-powered visual-semantic indicator system coupled with geographically weighted XGBoost for precise, spatially explicit urban …
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High-resolution mapping of demographic compositions based on remote sensing and social media data: a multimodal, multi-output modeling approach

A multimodal, multi-output framework that estimates complete sex and age structures on 100 m grid cells from census data, remote …
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Editorial: Machine learning for advanced remote sensing: from theory to applications and societal impact

Editorial to the Research Topic on machine learning for advanced remote sensing, connecting methodological advances with trustworthy, …
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Measuring causal strengths from spatial cross-sectional data with geographical cross mapping cardinality

We proposed the Geographical Cross Mapping Cardinality (GCMC) model to reliably quantify causal strengths from spatial cross-sectional …
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Sensing healthy city: from multimodal geographic data, GeoAI to causal inference

To introduce our published studies in sensing healthy city from multimodal geographic data, GeoAI to causal inference.
Jul 19, 2026 9:10 AM — 9:30 AM Wuhan, Hubei
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Sensing healthy city: from multimodal geographic data, GeoAI to causal inference

To introduce our published studies in sensing healthy city from multimodal geographic data, GeoAI to causal inference.
Jul 17, 2026 9:20 AM — 9:30 AM East China Normal University, Shanghai
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Obesogenic environment sensing based on multimodal data and GeoAI

To introduce our published research in sensing obesogenic environments based on multimodal data and GeoAI.
Apr 17, 2026 3:35 PM — 3:50 PM Fuzhou University, Fujian
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Sensing healthy city based on multimodal data and GeoAI

To introduce our published paper in sensing health city using multimodal data and GeoAI.
Dec 13, 2025 1:45 PM — 2:00 PM SCO Jianguo Hotel Qingdao, Shandong
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Toward health geography: from the COVID-19 pandemic to Health China

To introduce our studies in health geography.
Nov 30, 2025 8:00 PM — 9:30 PM Online
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Resources

Softwares &
Open book &
Websites &
Scripts &
Datasets

Softwares

GUI Software

D3L Tool of NASA Satellite: The program provides a graphical interface to download satellite imagery from NASA, such as MODIS products, MERIS and more.
Github Paper Notebook: The software for notebook of papers, I’m fulfilling the information and software.

R packages

Geographical Detector for R: The geographical detector software based on R, I’m fulfilling the information and software.
rgeoda: rgeoda is a R package for spatial data analysis based on libgeoda and GeoDa(contributor).

R Shiny app

COVID-19 Shiny app: A developed dashboard shiny app about COVID-19.
MetS score calculator shiny app: A shiny app to calculate MetS score.

Open book

Note of Applied Statistics with R (in Chinese)
Note of Applied Statistics with R Project on Github (in Chinese)

Websites

GISerDaiShaoqing’s Blog: My personal blog (in Chinese)
Shaoqing Dai’s CV(html version): Shaoqing Dai’s data-driven CV (English)
Shaoqing Dai’s CV(html version): Shaoqing Dai’s CV (in Chinese)
Awesome of COVID-19: This website was used for collecting all the resources of COVID-19 related studies and was powered by docsite.

Scripts

Code and data to support ‘Street view imagery for built environment auditing: a systematic review’
My Studies of Urban GIS on Github

Datasets

Urban Carbon Dioxide sources gridded maps and its detemination in Jinjiang city
3d model of Fujian Normal University

Scientific and Technological Achievements

Shaoqing Dai, Wufan Zhao,Xinying Zhang, Zhixin Lin, Yuanyuan Shi. ’Environment + dual carbon goals’ digital and intelligent platform development (Roadshow Signing Project). Strait (Jinjiang) Technology Innovation Center Co., Ltd., 3rd National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
Yin Ren, Shudi Zuo, Lizhong Hua, Shaoqing Dai. Scaling up of carbon sequestration for Eucalyptus plantations based on ETKF-3DVAR hybrid data assimilation. 90000890-2349, Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology.

Professional Services

Organizational Roles

DurationTime Role
Editors
2026-current Editor Board Member, npj Digital Public Health.
2026-current Youth Editorial Board Member, Journal of Subtropical Resources and Environment.
2025-current Editor Board Member, BMC Public Health.
2025-current Associate Editor, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2025-current Guest Editor, Land Special Issue, ”Urban Spatial Planning for Health and Well-Being”
2025-2026 Guest Editor, Frontiers in Remote Sensing Special Issue, ”Machine Learning for Advanced Remote Sensing: From Theory to Applications and Societal Impact”
2013-2017 Founder, Editor in Chief, Associate Editor, Assistant Editor in Chief, the Geographical Tribune of Youth.
Affiliations
2024-current Visiting Scholar, AI 4D City lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
2019-current Fellow, International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Health (ISLE).
2019-current Contributor, GeoDa Center, rgeoda, libgeoda Github Organizations.
Social Media Volunteer
2015-current Volunteer, Organization “Sustainable Cities & Mobility”.
2020-2023 Editor Board, Council Member, Editor in Chief of Wechat, GISphere.
2016-2017 Volunteer, Green Bike-Transit.
Science & Technology Service
2025-current Principal Investigator (PI), Pang Changle Expert Grassroots Research Workstation team, Mengzi Shuchan Investment and Development Co. Ltd, Yunnan.
2025 Fellow, The 138th Postdoctoral Science and Technology Service Corps, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
2018-2020 Expert, Aliyunqi Community.
Conference & Society Service
2025-current Member, The Geographical Society of China.
2024-current Member, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium.
2017-2019 Member, International Association of Landscape Ecology of China(IALE-China).
2025 Convener, 2nd National Conference of Information Geography, ”Human behaviors,health geography and spatial modeling” session
2025 Convener, 5th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health, ”Street view images, human mobility and environmental health” session.
2024 Convener, 2nd World Congress of Geography, ”Research on Global Health Wellbeing and Health Geography” session.
2024 Convener, 4th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health, ”Application of System Simulation Models in Health Domain” session.
Workshop Lecturer
2024-current Lecturer, UrbanParty.
2026 Lecturer, 6th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health Workshop
2025 Lecturer, 5th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health Workshop
2024 Lecturer, 4th International Symposium on Spatial Lifecourse Health Workshop
2024 Lecturer, Heywhale Community and GISphere, ’Python x GIS’ GeoAI Workshop
2024 Lecturer, Training course on ’Spatial Epidemiology Analysis Mehtods and Applications’ by China CDC, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases

Peer Reviewer for Selected Academic Journals & Conference

Peer-review Journal

GIScience, Remote Sensing & Urban Data

  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Information Geography
  • Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

Environment, Ecology & Sustainability

  • Resources, Conservation and Recycling
  • Applied Energy
  • Environmental Research
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Forest Ecology & Management
  • Carbon Balance and Management
  • Carbon Management
  • City and environment interactions
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Sustainability
  • Environmental Modeling & Assessment
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Urban Studies & Health

  • European Heart Journal
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Habitat International
  • Cities
  • BMC Public Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine
  • Children
  • Healthcare
  • Frontiers of Architectural Research
  • Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
  • Shanghai Urban Planning Review

Data Science & Multidisciplinary

  • Information Processing & Management
  • Scientific Data
  • Scientific Reports
  • Heliyon
  • Sensors
  • The Journal of Open Source Software
  • Data in Brief
  • Discover Global Society
  • Applied Economics Letters

Conference

  • ISPRS Conference
  • CPGIS Conference
  • Biology and Life Sciences Forum

Awards & Honors & Fundings

Award & Honors

Year Award & Honors
2025 Best Oral Presentation Award in 3rd Urban Agglomeration Green Development Conference, Urban Agglomeration Green Development Special Committee, Chinese Society for Urban Studies.
2025 The National 2nd Prize(supervisor), 9th Planning Decision Support Model Design Contest(Chengyuan Cup), Beijing Chengyuan Digital Technology Co. Ltd., World Urban Planning Education Network, Beijing Planning Institute Hongdu Planning and Architectural Design Research Institute Co. Ltd.
2025 Special Program for the Introduction of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
2022 Outstanding contributions to COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, Health commission of Tumot Left Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
2021 The National 2nd Prize, 5th Planning Decision Support Model Design Contest(Chengyuan Cup), Beijing Chengyuan Digital Technology Co. Ltd., World Urban Planning Education Network, Beijing Planning Institute Hongdu Planning and Architectural Design Research Institute Co. Ltd., Beijing City Lab, Baidu Map Huiyan, China Unicom Smart Footprint.
2019 China Scholarship Council(CSC), China Scholarship Council.
2019 The 2nd Grade Scholarship of Yonker Environmental Protection Scholarship, Yonker Environmental Protection Co. Ltd..
2019 The 1st Grade Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2019 The Scientific and Technological Innovation Award of Outstanding Graduate Students, Ecological Society of China.
2018 National Scholarship for M.Sc., Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
2018 The National 3rd Prize, 2nd Big Data Support Spatial Planning and Design Competition, Urban Big Data Special Committee, Chinese Society for Urban Studies.
2018 “Applied Energy” 2018 Summer School Certification, The Applied Energy Innovation Institute, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China Emission Accounts & Datasets(CEADs).
2018 Merit Students in the academic year 2017-2018, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The 2nd Grade Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The 1st Scholarship, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018 The National Winning Award, 2017 “Sharing Cup” College Student Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Innovation Contest, National Science & Technology Infrastructure Center.
2017 Excellent Volunteer, 15th User Conference of Esri China, Esri China Information Technology Co. Ltd..
2017 Merit Students in the academic year 2016-2017, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2015 The National Winning Award, 2015 Esri Cup National College Student Developed Contest in GIS·3D Modeling and Design, Chinese Society of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography, Esri China Information Technology Co. Ltd..
2015 Inovation Scholoarships in the academic year 2014-2015, Fujian Normal University.
2015 The National 3rd Prize, the Smart City Special Event Contest—the 14th Challenge Cup National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Contest, Chinese Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, All-China Students’ Federation.
2015 Scientific and Technological Innovation award and Nomination, the First Annual Fujian Normal University Student Selection, Fujian Normal University.
2015 School Wining Award, 9th Challenge Cup Fujian Normal University College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Contest, Fujian Normal University.
2014 Inovation Scholoarships in the academic year 2013-2014, Fujian Normal University.
2014 The National 3rd Prize, 2014 MathorCup Global Collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics.
2014 Excellent League Cadres in the academic year 2013-2014, Fujian Normal University.
2014 Excellent League Leader in the academic year 2013-2014, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University.
2013 Excellent League Leader in the academic year 2012-2013, School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University.

Fundings

DurationTime Fundings, Role
2026-2027 Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System(2025), PI
2026-2028 Open Funding for Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Physical Geographic Environment(2025PGE006), PI
2025-2027 Special Program for the Introduction of Overseas Postdoctoral Talents, PI
2024-2026 Research Project of Collaborative Chronic Disease Management by Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Investigator
2023-2026 National Key Research and DevelopmentPlan(2023YFC3604704), Investigator
2022-2025 National Natural Science Foundation of China(42271433), Investigator
2020-2021 WeSpace Academic Support Plan in 2020: ”Tsinghua-Tencent” Emerging Technologies Future Urban Space project, PI
2018-2019 Open Fund of the Big Data Institute of Digital Natural Disaster Monitoring in Fujian (NDMBD2018001), Investigator
2016-2020 National Key Research and Development Plan(2016YFC0502704), Investigator
2015-2018 National Natural Science Foundation of China(31470578), Investigator
2014-2015 The Technological Innovation Plan of University Students, Fujian Normal University(cxxl-2014137), PI

Skills

R

80%

GIS

80%

3D modeling

80%

Python

70%

Statistics

70%

RS & Earth Observation

70%

Popular Topics

Air Pollution Map Ecological Modeling Ecosystem Services EO & RS GeoAI Health Geography Landscape Ecology Obesity SDG Spatial Lifecourse Health Spatial Statistics Spatial-Temporal Big Data Spatial-Temporal GIS Theory Street View Images Urban Blue and Green Space Urban Carbon Cycle Urban Visual Intelligence Virtual Geographical Environment

Contact

School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, Hubei, China

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