Peer-reviewed publications:
Spatial Statistics; Transport Geography
Ma, X#., Zhang, Z#., Song, Y.. 2025. Geographically informed graph neural networks. Spatial Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2025.100920 (#: Their contributions to this work were equally significant)
Jia, N., Yang, H., Lan, X., Li, Y., Song, Y., Zhang, Z., Song, W., Zhao, R., Ma, T., Chen, R., 2025. Global soybean trade intensifies the impacts of dietary transition on human mobility. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112426
Jia, N., Li, Y., Jiang, Z., Su, R., Lan, X., Zhang, K., Song, W., Zhao, R., Xia, Z., Song, Y., Zhang, Z., Wang, M., Wang, R., Zhang, Z., Chen R., 2025. Climate change, social environment, health, and urban inequality: Developing a novel adaptive evaluation framework. Sustainable Cities and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106443
Wang, B., He, L., He, Z., Song, Y., Qu, R., Hu, J., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., 2025. Spatiotemporal landslide monitoring in complex environments using radiative transfer model and SBAS-InSAR technology. Land. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050956
Zhang, Z., Li, Z., Song, Y., 2024. On ignoring the heterogeneity in spatial autocorrelation: consequences and solutions. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2024.2391981
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Karunaratne, L., Wu, P., 2024. Robust interaction detector: A case of road life expectancy analysis. Spatial Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2024.100814
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., 2024. Spatial big data and analysis strategies supporting Geographic Information System for Transportation (GIS-T) in conceptual design, modelling, and decision-making: A review. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-2024-461-2024.
Wang, Z., Song, Y., Zhang, Z., Lin, G., Luo, P., Zhang, X., Chai, Z., 2024. Identifying Determinants of Spatiotemporal Disparities in Ecological Quality of Mongolian Plateau. Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16183385
Yang, L., Luo, P., Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Ren, K., Zhang, C., Awange, J., Atkinson, P., Meng, L., 2024. A spatio-temporal unmixing with heterogeneity model for the identification of remotely sensed MODIS aerosols: Exemplified by the case of Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.104068
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Luo, P., Wu, P., 2023. Geocomplexity explains spatial errors. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2023.2203212
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Archer, N., Wu, P., 2023. Spatial disparity of urban performance from a scaling perspective: a study of industrial features associated with economy, infrastructure, and innovation. GIScience and Remote Sensing, http://doi.10.1080/15481603.2023.2167567
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Luo, P., Wu, P., Liu, X., Wang, M., 2023. Elucidation of spatial disparities of factors that affect air pollutant concentrations in industrial regions at a continental level. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103221
Cheng, T., Zhao, Y., Song, Y., Ma, L., Zhang, Z., Luo, P., Gao, P., Zhang, M., Zhao, C., 2023. Towards resilience effectiveness: Assessing its patterns and determinants to identify optimal geographic zones. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139596
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Wu, P., 2022. Robust geographical detector. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102782
Zhang, Z., Song, Y., Luo, P., Wu, P., 2022. Earth observation for land cover and human-environment interactions. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W5-2022-211-2022
Conference presentation & Keynotes
"AI as a Research Assistant in Spatial Data Science: Daily Practice and Human Judgement", The Role of AI in HDR: Navigating Ethics, Applications, and Impact Symposium, Curtin University, 2025 [Keynote presentation]
"On the heterogeneity of spatial dependence: data generation process and modelling", Webinars on Spatiotemporal Innovation, Spatial Data Lab, Harvard University,2025
“Spatial big data and analysis strategies supporting Geographic Information System for Transportation (GIS-T) in conceptual design, modelling, and decision-making: A review”, ISPRS TC IV Symposium, Fremantle, Australia, 2024
“On the heterogeneity of spatial dependence: data generation process and modelling”, Curtin EMCR Research Symposium, Perth, Australia, 2024
“Spatial effects in daily data analytics: disparity and complexity”, City+2023, Perth, Australia, 2023 [Keynote presentation]
“Identifying Spatial Disparities of Power-law Scaling in Nation-wide Industrial Regions”, 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Nancy, France, 2022
“Earth observation for land cover and human-environment interactions”, 7th SDSC & 17th 3DGeoinfo Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2022
PhD thesis
Assessing sustainable development in industrial regions towards smart built environment management using Earth observation big data [URL: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92344 ] [Primary supervisor: Dr Yongze Song]