| Expert Name | Mr. Youguan Kou |
| Title | Director of Project, Senior Engineer |
| Division | |
| Institution | China Institute of Land Survey & Planning |
| City | Beijing |
| Country | China |
| Telephone | 86 010 62177722-6022 |
| Email | clspi(at)public.bta.net.cn |
| Work Experience | 1963-1980 (1965-1978) Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology, Cryopedology and Desert Research, Academia Sinica, Chief of Research Group.
1) To investigate the solar radiation and heat balance at the earth's surface of west China
2) To carry on geographic scientific investigation
3) To work at Shapotou Desert Research Station.
1980-1990: Institute of Agricultural Natural Resource Survey & Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Director of Information Laboratory, Assistant researcher
1) To build the Information System of National Agricultural Resources for China's government
2) To work on remote sensing application for agriculture
3) To carrrry out a national survey for land use of China utilizing Landsat Image
4) To investigate the agricultural information.
1988-1989: University of California, Davis, USA, senior visiting scholar. Earth Observing System (Eos) experiment, NASA program.
1989-1990: Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ARC/INFO, GIS |
| Qualifications | 1958-1963: Agricultural Meteorology, Beijing Agricultural University.
1987-1988: English, Beijing (Sichuan) Institute of Foreign Language.
1988-1989: Remote Sensing (Eos), University of California, Davis, USA.
1989: Geographic Information System (GIS), ESRI, ARC/INFO Cop., USA.
1990: Information System, University of Kansas, USA, Senior Visiting Scholar in USA. |
| Number of Publications | 49 |
| Awards | 1. Visiting researcher in China's Center of Resource Satellite Application.
2. A member of Jiu San Society.
3. A member of Western Returned Students' Association. |
| Other Activities | 1. To investigate application system for China's Resources Satellite.
2. To construct ecology environmental information system for Zhengzou-Tongguan of New Asia-Europe Continent Bridge.
3. A standing member of a council for China Society for Agricultural Information.
4. An expert of World Bank Project for GIS for middle-small city.
5. An officer of coordinate group for Resource Satellite Application. |
| Publications | 1. Youguan Kou et al, 1981. On the Radiation and Heat Balance Over Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Proceedings of Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. P. 1553-1562, Science Press, Beijing, Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc. New York.
2. Youguan Kou et al., 1981. Variation of Precipitation Correlating Elevations of Mt. Tomur and its Supplying Effect on Glaciers. A Monthly Journal of Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 71-75.
3. Youguan Kou et al., 1988. Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Agriculture Press.
4. Robert W. McColl & Youguan Kou, 1990, Feeding China's Millions. Geographical Review, Vol. 80, No. 4, p. 434-443. USA.
5. Youguan Kou et al. 1997. On National Monitoring System of Overall Cultivated Land Amount, China Land Science, Vol. 11, No. 44, p. 16-18. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
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