Fang Qiu

Ph.D. - Geographic Information Sciences
University of South Carolina - 2000

M.S. - Geographical Information Systems
Chinese Academy of Sciences - 1993

B.S. - Geography with GIS emphasis
China Normal University - 1990

Hao Chen⁺, Fang Qiu*, Shuang Tian, Haitao Lyu, Defei Yang, Mobeen Akhtar, Eve Bohnett, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Douglas Stow, and Li An, in presss, Multi-Perspective Wildlife Monitoring Using Drones and Camera Traps By Integrating Deep Learning and Spatial Analysis. Remote Sensing, 18(19), 3375 2026 - Publications

Hao Chen⁺, Fang Qiu*, Umme Kulsum, Caiyun Zhang, Eve Bohnett, Haitao Lyu, Shuang Tian, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Douglas Stow, Rebecca Lewison, and Li An, 2026, Deep Learning-Based Monitoring and Spatiotemporal Analysis of Wildlife and Human Activities Using Camera Trap Imagery. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 72:122 2026 - Publications

Tian, S⁺., and F. Qiu*, 2026, Reconstructing Historical Housing Data Using Kriging Interpolation and Zonal Statistics. Scientific Data.  2026 - Publication

Bohnett, E., Lamichanne, B.R., Chaudhary, S., Pokhrel, K., Coulter, L., Dormann, G., Flores, A., Lewison, R., Qiu, F., Stow, D., & An, L. 2026, Understanding the efficacy and efficiency of thermal infrared UAV for wildlife monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 198:118.  2026 - Publication

Bohnett, E.; Lamichanne, B.R.; Chaudhary, S.; Pokhrel, K.; Dormann, G.; Flores, A.; Lewison, R.; Qiu, F.; Stow, D.; An, L. 2025, Thermal Infrared UAV Applications for Spatially Explicit Wildlife Occupancy Modeling. Land, 14 (7),1461.  2025 - Publication

Tian, S⁺., and F. Qiu*, 2025. UAV-Derived Building Heights and Floor Counts for the University of Texas at Dallas (July 2025 Dataset). Data in Brief, 63 (December 2025): 112263.  2025 - Publication

Haitao Lyu⁺, Fang Qiu*, Li An, Douglas Stow, Rebecca Lewison, Eve Bohnett, 2024. Deer survey from drone thermal imagery using enhanced faster R-CNN based on ResNets and FPN, Ecological Informatics, Volume 79, 102383.  2024 - publications

Haitao Lyu⁺, Fang Qiu*, Li An, Douglas Stow, Rebecca Lewison, Eve Bohnett, 2024. Advancing Wild Deer Monitoring Through UAV Thermal Imaging and Modified Faster RCNN: A Case Study in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. Sensing and Imaging 25:50.  2024 - Publication

Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2014–Present]
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Department Head
University of Texas at Dallas [2013–2023]
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Associate Professor with tenure
University of Texas at Dallas [2006–2014]
School of Economic, Policy and Policy Sciences

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2000–2006]
School of Social Sciences

Research Assistant and Instructor
University of South Carolina [1996–2000]

Director and Certified Instructor
Chinese Academy of Sciences [1994–1996]

Research Associate
Chinese Academy Sciences [1993–1994]

Eye in the Sky Details Urban Tree Landscape

For decades, arborists and urban planners alike have struggled with how best to evaluate and maintain Dallas’ urban forests. A vital source of greenery, environmental protection and quality of life, these forests were previously cataloged by volunteers on foot with handheld GPS devices. At best, the results were a rough, inaccurate patchwork portrayal of the variety and number of trees in a given area.
A new technique pioneered by Dr. Fang Qiu, associate professor in geospatial information sciences in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, has produced a comprehensive survey of some of the Dallas forest — and he did it leaf by leaf. The effort marks the first time any metropolitan area has surveyed trees with the Qiu’s novel, two-step approach.

Qiu was commissioned by Steve Houser, who chairs the Dallas Urban Forest Advisory Committee.

UTD Professor Wins NASA Grant to Develop Geospatial Earth Science Database

RICHARDSON, Texas (Jan. 10, 2005) — Dr. Fang Qiu, an assistant professor of geographic information sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), has been awarded a $70,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to help create a system that will track scientific information about the Earth for use in higher education.

The grant was funded under NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) Higher Education Alliance, and Qiu will serve as co-investigator of the initiative, alongside researchers from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., the City University of New York and Northern Illinois University.

CNH-L: People, Place, and Payments in Complex Human-Environment Systems

$1,450,000 - National Science Foundation [2018/09–2023/02]