Min Sun

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I am a PhD student in the Earth Systems and GeoInformation Sciences Program in Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University (GMU) from Fall 2008. I obtained my M.S. degree from GMU and B.S. degree from Nanjing Normal University in China.

My major research interests include spatial data quality, WebGIS, GIS modeling, data visualization, mapping and applications in population, public health, environmental science and transportation. My PhD thesis topic is about controlling and displaying data quality in demographical data mapping system.

As a graduate research assistant, I have served a lot of projects in the field of mapping data quality, spatial web portal for environmental and climatic data searching, processing, analysis, and rendering.

Contacts

Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science, George Mason University

  • Address: 4400 University Dr, Research I Building, Room 255B, Fairfax, VA, 22030
  • Email: msun@gmu.edu
  • Phone: 571-488-2195
  • Homepage: mason.gmu.edu/~msun

Research Interests

  • Spatial data and service quality
  • GIS modeling, Spatial analysis
  • Scientific data visualization, Web mapping, Web GIS
  • Population, Public health, Environmental science, Transportation

Research Skills

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
Programming Languages: Java, Java script, PHP, VB.NET, VBA, C, C++, Statistical R, Python, ArcObejct
Research Software: SPSS, ArcGIS Desktop and Server, MySQL, Eclipse, ERDAS, ENVI, Microsoft Visual Studio, NetLogo, DreamWeaver, Drupal, Liferay
Application Software: Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/FrontPage/Visio, Photoshop

Professional Experiences

Honors and Awards

Publications, Presentations and Books

  • Publications
  • Presentations
  • Book Chapters

Projects

Project Name My Responsbility
Climate@Home (sponsored by NASA) Developed distributed web mapping and analytical function for climate model outputs with Google Earth
SilvaCarbon (sponsored by USGS) Developed online data and file sharing and visulization system with Google Map
Spatial Web Portal (sponsored by NASA) Developed geographical data/service search and visulization with Bing Map
ArcGIS Extension for Mapping the American Community Survey (ACS) Data with Uncertainty (sponsored by Census Bureau) Degined mapping method and implemented as an ArcGIS extension
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Professional Services

2012 Session Organizer Map mashup for public participation GIS: Methods and applications

Professional Memberships

2009- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2010- American Geography Union (AGU)

Grants

2010 - ESIP student funding (Geospatial Cloud Processing), $3000

GGS772 Homeworks

HW3 Calculator JS
HW4
HW5 Map Viewer