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Northwest Missouri State University


Yi-Hwa Wu

Yi-Hwa Wu

Email

Office

1075 Garrett-Strong

Phone

660.562.1869
660.562.1055 (fax)

Joined Northwest in 2004

Associate Professor


Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Geography; University of Utah, 2003
  • M.S., Graduate Institute of Building and Planning; National Taiwan University, 1993
  • B.S., Department of Geography; National Taiwan University, 1991

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Customized GIS
  • Senior Seminar Geography
  • Application of Remotely Sensed Data (online course)
  • Principles of GIS (online course)
  • Digital Cartography and GeoVisualization (online course)
  • Advanced GIS
  • Issues in Cartographic Design (online course)
  • GIScience Research Seminar (online course)
  • Special Topic: Geoprocessing with Python (online course, developed and taught)
  • GIS Theory and Research (online course, developed and taught)
  • Raster GIS and Modeling (online course)
  • GIS Customization (online course)
  • Trends in GIS (online course)

Academic Interests

  • Geographic Information Science
  • Transportation
  • Time Geography
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Spatial Modeling
  • Geocomputation
  • GIS Customization
  • Visualization
  • Remote Sensing

Scholarly Activity

  • 2010 Wu, Y.-H. and Hung, M.-H., Non-Connective Linear Cartograms for Mapping Traffic Conditions, Cartographic Perspectives, Vol.65, pp.33-50.
  • 2010 Hung, M.-C. & Duckworth, R.P. & Wu, Y.-H. & Patton, J., 2010, GIS Database Design for APEX Model, Proceedings of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2010 Annual Conference, April 26-30, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA
  • 2010 Hung, M.-C. & Patton, J. & Wu, Y.-H. & Hoffman, D. & Wolfe, J., Nitrates in Groundwater, A Forty Year Northwest Missouri Assessment, Presented at the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) 2010 Annual Conference, Jul. 18-21, 2010, St. Louis, MO, USA.
  • 2010 DiBiase, D. & Wu, Y.-H. & Hung, M.-C. & Harvey, F. & Wilson, J. & Anderson, S. & Fisher, T. & Drews, P. & Solem, M. & Flewelling, D. & Marshall, W., Community of Professional Graduate Programs in GIS&T Panel Session, Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2010 Annual Meeting, Apr. 14-18, 2010, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • 2010 Wu, Y.H., Duckworth, R.P., Hung, M.-C., and Patton, J.J., Graphic User Interface Design to Integrate GIS and APEX Model, Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 106th Annual Meeting, April 14-18, Washington, D.C., USA.
  • 2009 Hung, M.-C., Wu, Y.-H. & Patton, J.J., 2009, Adaption of Commercial Digital Cameras to Capture Close-Range Multispectral Images, Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 105th Annual Meeting, Mar. 22-27, 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • 2009 Wu, Y.-H., Hung, M.-C., and Chu, T.-H., 2009, High spatial resolution aerial photos to assess subpixel classification accuracy of Formosat-2 image, Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 105th Annual Meeting, Mar. 22-27, 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • 2009 Wu, Y.-H. and Hung, M.-C., 2009, Changes of urban land cover composition through space and time form Remote Sensing, Presented at 12th Biennial State of Missouri GIS Conference, Feb. 16-18, 2009, Osage Beach, MO, USA
  • 2009 Wu, Y.-H. and Hung, M.-C., 2009, Modeling dynamic traffic conditions with GIS, Presented at 12th Biennial State of Missouri GIS Conference, Feb. 16-18, 2009, Osage Beach, MO, USA
  • 2009 Hung, M.-C. and Wu, Y.-H. 2009, Commercial digital cameras and near infrared images, Presented at 12th Biennial State of Missouri GIS Conference, Feb. 16-18, 2009, Osage Beach, MO, USA

Student Group Advisement

  • Faculty Advisor GTU