Professional Services
Dr. Li is an individual member of the following professional societies/associations:
- Member of Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS)
- Member of Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS-SCT)
- Lifetime member, International Society of Digital Earth
- Lifetime member, The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS)
Chair, WG IV/7 of Technical Commission IV, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2022-2026)
Deputy Chair, Academic Network, United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) (2021-2024)
Director, Executive Committee, Canadian Remote Sensing Society (2022-2024)
Council Member (Treasurer), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2016-2022)
President, Technical Commission II, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2012-2016)
Director, Executive Committee, Canadian Remote Sensing Society (2018-2020)
Lead, SB-02-C1: Global Land Cover Datasets and Service, Group on Earth Observations (2012-2015)
Canadian National Delegate, Commission 3, International Federation of Surveyors (2007-2020)
Council Member, Canadian Institute of Geomatics (2009-2016)
Chair, Canadian National Committee for ISPRS (2009-2016)
Examiner, Item C5 Geospatial Information Systems, the Canadian Board of Examiners for Professional Surveyors (2009- present)
Chair, WG IV/5 of Technical Commission IV, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012)
Special Examiner, SII-5 Land Information Systems, the Joint Board of Examiners of the Association Canada of Lands Surveyors (2004-2009)
Co-Chair/Chair, WG IV/5 of Technical Commission IV, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2004- 2008)
Chair, Scientific Committee, ISPRS XXV Congress, Toronto, Canada, July 4-11, 2026
Member, Program Committee, 22nd International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Mexico City, México, September 8-9, 2025
Member, Oraganizing Committee and Scietific Committee, ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium, Fremantle, Australia, October 22-25, 2024
Conference Co-Chair, 31st International Conference on Geoinformatics, Toronto, Canada, August 14-16, 2024
Member, Program Committee, 21st International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, June 17-18, 2024
Member, Program Committee, 20th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Quebec, Canada, June 12-13, 2023
Conference Co-Chair, Geo-Informatics Supported Disaster Risk Reduction and Smarter Urban Management, Beijing, China, November 1-4, 2022
Plenary and Thematic Session Chairs, ISPRS Congress 2022, Nice, France, June 6-11, 2022
Plenary and Thematic Session Chairs, ISPRS Congress 2021, Digital Edition, July 5-9, 2021
Organizer and moderator, ESRI GIS Seminar on Modelling, Analysis and Visualization of Transportation, 12 May 2021 (online).
Member, Scientific Committee, Climate Change and Disaster Management (incl. GI4DM), 30 November to 4 December 2020, Sydney, Australia (online).
Member, Program Committee, 18th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 13-14 November 2020, Wuhan, China.
Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for 3D Big Spatial Data Processing - AI3D2020, 14-17 September 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia (online).
Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for 3D Big Spatial Data Processing (AI3D 2019), 9-10 December 2019, San Diego, California, USA.
Member, Workshop Committee, ISPRS and GEO workshop on Geospatial-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda (GI4SDGs), 19-20 November 2019, Changsha, China.
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Geomatics in the Big Data Era, 15-17 November 2019, Guilin, China.
Member, Scientific Committee, 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (UPINLBS 2019), 13-14 November 2019, Beijing, China.
Member, Scientific Committee, International Workshop on Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping and Geospatial Big Data, 13-14 June 2019, Enschede, Netherlands.
Member, International Scientific Committee, ISPRS Geospatial Week, 10-14 June 2019, Enschede, Netherlands.
Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2019), 3-5 May 2019, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Member, Program Committee, 17th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 16-17 May 2019, Kyoto, Japan.
Member, Program Committee, 16th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 21-22 May 2018, A Coruña, Spain.
Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2018), 17-19 March 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Member, International Scientific Committee, ISPRS Geospatial Week, 18-22 September 2017, Wuhan, China.
Member, Steering Committee, The 5th International Workshop on Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services, 19-20 September 2017, Wuhan, China.
Plenary Session Chair, ISPRS Workshop on Collaborative and Dynamic Land Cover Information Services Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals, 16 September 2017, Jinan, China.
Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2017), 27-28 April, 2017, Porto, Porgugal.
Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Geomatic and Geospatial Technology, 3-5 October 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 2016 International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Big Data, 25-27 July 2016, Fairfax, USA.
Member, International Scientific Committee, XXIII ISPRS Congress, 12-19 July 2016, Prague, Czech.
Member of Expert Review Board, ISPRS Open Data Scientific Initiative Competition and Urban Informatics Workshop, 12 December 2015, Shenzhen, China.
Chair, Scientific Committee, ISPRS International Workshop on Mobility and Land Cover Change Mapping, 5-6 December 2015, Changsha, China.
Chair, Export Seminar on Land Cover Information Service Standards, 13 November 2015, Beijing, China.
Member, Steering Committee, 1st International Workshop on Spatiotemporal Computing, 13-15 July 2015, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Member, Steering Committee, 4th ISPRS Workshop on Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services, 1-3 July 2015, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
Session Chair, International Workshop on Supporting Future Earth with Geo-information, 9-10 June 2015, Beijing, China.
Member, International Scientific Committee, ISPRS/GEO/ICA Workshop on Trust in Spatial Data and Validation of Global Land Cover Products, 5-7 June 2015, Shanghai, China.
Member, Scientifc Advisory Board, 2015 Geocomputation, 20-23 May 2015, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 21-22 May 2015, Grenoble, France.
Member, Scientific Program Committee, 9th International 3DGeoInfo Conference, 11-13 November 2014, Dubai, UAE.
Conference Chair, Joint International Conference on Geospatial Theory, Processing, Modelling and Applications, 6-8 October 2014, Toronto, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, OGC Academic Summit 2014, 15-16 September 2014, University of Calgary, Canada.
Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 29-20 May 2014, Seoul, South Korea.
Member, Scientific Committee, ISPRS Technical Commission VI Mid-Term Symposium, 19-21 May 2014, Wuhan, China.
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, ISPRS Technical Commission IV Mid-Term Symposium, 14-16 May 2014, Suzhou, China.
Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining, 21-24 April 2014, Bali, Indonesia.
Member, Scientific Committee, ISPRS/ IGU/ICA Joint Workshop on Borderlands Modelling and Understanding for Global Sustainability, 5-6 December, 2013, Beijing, China.
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, ISPRS Conference on "Serving Society with Geoinformatics" (ISPRS2013-SSG), 11-17 Nov 2013, Antalya, Turkey.
Member, Scientific Committee, Global Spatial Grids and Cloud-based Services and 3rd International Workshop on Web Mapping, Geoprocessing Services and Applications, 11-12 Nov 2013, Xuzhou, China.
Member, International Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, 28-31 October 2013, Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg.
Member, Academic Track Committee, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, 17-21 Sept 2013, Nottingham, UK.
Conference Co-Chair, CIG and EOGC Joint Conference, 5-7 June 2013, Toronto, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, GeoComputation'2013, 23-25 May 2013, Wuhan University, China.
Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd International Workshop on High Resolution Global Land Cover Mapping, 27-28 April 2013, Beijing, China.
Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 4-5 April, 2013, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Member, Scientific Committee, 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM 2012), 13-14 December 2012, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Member, Scientific Committee, First Latin American Congress of Free and Open Source GIS, 19-20 November 2012, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Member, International Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, Oct 28-31, 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Member, Academic Committee, FOSS4G 2012, 10-15 September 2012, Beijing, China.
Member, Scientific Committee, 7th International 3D GeoInfo Conference 2012, May 16-17, 2012, Quebec, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining, April 15-18, 2012, Busan, South Korea.
Member, Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 12-13 April, 2012, Naples, Italy.
Member, International Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, 21-24 November 2011, San-Francisco, USA.
Member, Scientific Committee, ISPRS Workshop on Geospatial Data Infrastructure: from data acquisition and updating to smarter services, 20-21 October 2011, Guilin, China.
Member, Academic Track Committee, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, 12-16 Sept 2011, Denver, USA.
Co-Chair, 2nd ISPRS Workshop on Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services, 10-12 August 2011, Burnaby, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining, 22-25 April 2011, Hong Kong, China.
Member, Program Committee, 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 3-4 March 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, 26-29 October 2010, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Academic Chair, Scientific Committee, Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, 6-9 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
Co-Chair, 1st ISPRS Workshop on Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services, 26-27 August 2010, Como, Italy
Member, Papers/Presentations Committee, Canadian Geomatics Conference 2010, 15-18 June 2010, Calgary, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, 9th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 7-8 December 2009, Maynooth, Ireland.
Member, Program Committee, 2009 International Workshop on GIS for Transportation, 4-6 December 2009, Wuhan, China.
Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, 27-30 October 2009, Lyon, France.
Member, International Program Committee, the Academic Track of GeoWeb 2009, 27-31 July 2009, Vancouver, Canada.
Chair, Technical Sessions, XXI ISPRS Congress, 3-11 July 2008, Beijing, China.
Member, Program Committee, 8th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 11-12 December 2008, Shanghai, China.
Member, Scientific Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality, 28-29 August 2008, Quebec City, Canada.
Member, Scientific Committee, Joint ISCRAM-CHINA and GI4DM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management, 4-6 August 2008, Harbin, China.
Member, Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 28-29 November 2007, Cardiff, UK.
Member, Scientific & Technical Program Committee, IPY GeoNorth 2007 - the 1st International Circumpolar Conference on Geospatial Sciences and Applications, 20-24 August 2007, Yellowknife, Canada.
Session Chairs, Joint CIG/ISPRS Conference on Geomatics for Disaster and Risk Management (the 100th CIG Annual Conference and the 3rd International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management), 23-25 May 2007, Toronto, Canada.
Member, Program Committee, 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 4-5 December 2006, Hong Kong, China.
Session Chairs, ISPRS TC IV International Symposium on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development, 25-30 September 2006, Goa, India.
Member, Scientific Committee, 1st International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality, 29-30 May 2006, Banff, Canada.
Conference Co-Chair, 13th International Conference on Geoinformatics, 17–19 August 2005, Toronto, Canada.
Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee 99th CIG Annual Conference, 23-25 May 2005, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Session Chair, International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology, 29-31 March 2004, Kunming, China.
Local Organizer, CPGIS GIS Global Day Seminar in Toronto, 24 October 2003.