Liqiu Meng / 孟立秋

The Person

  • Birthplace
    Province Jiangsu, China

  • Nationality
    Swedish

  • Position
    Professor

  • Address
    Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich

  • Telephone
    +49-89-28922826

  • Email
    meng@bv.tum.de

  • Homepage
    http://www.lfk.bgu.tum.de

Education

  • 1978.09 - 1982.07
    Institute of Surveying and Mapping, People's Liberation Army (China) / Cartography / B.Sc., Thesis: Computer-assisted selection of settlements on official topographic maps

  • 1982.08 - 1985.02
    Institute of Surveying and Mapping, People's Liberation Army (China) / Cartography / M.Sc., Thesis: Quantitative measures of visual loading on topographic maps

  • 1988.04 - 1993.02
    University of Hanover (Germany) / Geodetic engineering / Dr.-Ing., Thesis: Recognition of map texts with an expert system

  • 1996.06 - 1998.05
    Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) / Geomatics / Professorship qualification, Thesis: Automatic generalization of geodata

Working experiences

  • 1985.03 - 1988.03
    Teaching assistant / Institute of Surveying and Mapping, People's Liberation Army (China)

  • 1993.02 - 1994.06
    Research assistant / University of Hanover (Germany)

  • 1994.07 - 1996.09
    Senior lecturer / University of Gävle (Sweden)

  • 1996.10 - 1998.09
    GIS senior consultant / SWECO Co. (Sweden)

  • 1998.10 -
    C4-Professor, Chair of Cartography / Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Research interests

  • Pattern recognition
  • Remote sensing and geospatial data mining
  • Geo-data integration
  • Visual analytics
  • Multimodal navigation algorithm