Dr Lilong Zou

Dr Lilong Zou

Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Computing and Engineering

From 2016 to 2018, Lilong Zou was an assistant professor at Tohoku University, Japan. From 2018 to 2019, he was a researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He is currently a Research Fellow with School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, London, UK.

His research interests include signal processing technology of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Interferometric and Polarimetric Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) and their applications and analysis methods for disaster mitigation and non-destructive testing, and data processing technology of micro-seismic monitoring.

  • Qualifications


    B.S. (Jilin University, China)
    M.S. (Jilin University, China)
    Ph.D. (Tohoku University, Japan)

  • Memberships

    IEEE Member
    IEICE Member
  • Research and publications

    Publications

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'An efficient and accurate GB-SAR imaging algorithm based on fractional Fourier transform,' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (accepted and to be appeared)

    Motoyuki Sato, Lilong Zou, Giovanni Nico, Kazutaka Kikuta, 'Displacement and vibration monitoring by GB-SAR,' IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (accepted and to be appeared)

    Li Yi, Lilong Zou, and Motoyuki Sato. 'Practical Approach for High-Resolution Airport Pavement Inspection with the Yakumo Multistatic Array Ground-Penetrating Radar System.' Sensors 18, no. 8 (2018): 2684.

    Li Yi, Lilong Zou, Kazunori Takahashi, Motoyuki Sato, 'High-Resolution Velocity Analysis Method Using the ℓ-1 Norm Regularized Least-Squares Method for Pavement Inspection,' IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol.99, pp:1-12, January 2018.

    Xuan Feng, Lilong Zou, Qi Lu, Cai Liu, Wenjing Liang, Zheng-Shu Zhou, 'Calibration with High-Order Terms of Polarimetric GPR,' IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 717-722, June 2012.

    Xuan Feng, Lilong Zou, Cai Liu, Qi Lu.'Forward modeling for full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar,' Chinese Journal of Geophysics, vol.54, no.2, pp: 349-357, 2011. (in Chinese)

    Patent

    Xuan Feng, Wenjing Liang, Lilong Zou. Array antennas of full-polarimetric ground penetrating radar, State Intellectual Property office of the People’s Republic of China, 2010. (in Chinese)

  • Conferences

    Conference Presentations

    M. Sato, L. Zou and K. Kikuta Landslide monitoring by GB-SAR at Tateno site, Minami-Aso Proceedings of the International Meeting on Eruptive History and Informatics 2017, No.2-06.

    Li Yi, Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'A Practical Approach for High-resolution Pavement Inspection with Multistatic Array GPR YAKUMO'. IEICE technical report, vol. 117, no. 222, pp: 49-54, 2017.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Non destructive Inspection of Pavement by MIMO GPR 'YAKUMO'. IEICE technical report, vol. 117, no. 222, pp: 55-60, 2017.

    Motoyuki Sato, Lilong Zou, K. Kikuta 'Monitoring of pavement at airports by means of electromagnetic wave' Workshop on Photonics Applied to Electromagnetic Measurements.

    Motoyuki Sato, Lilong Zou, 'Inspection of pavement by Multi-static GPR 'Yakumo'. ICTSSL2017-10, vol. 117, no. 67, pp.63-68, 2017.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Pavement Surface Deformation Monitoring by Radar Interferometry Technique'. ICTSSL2017-10, vol. 117, no. 67, pp. 45-50, 2017.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'An Advanced algorithm for surface deformation monitoring of an airport taxiway by GB-SAR'. IEICE technical report, vol.116, no.387, pp: 109-114, 2017.

    Motoyuki Sato, Lilong Zou, Giovanni Nico, 'Monitoring of Infrastructure by GB-SAR'. IEICE technical report, vol. 116, no. 526, AP2016-179, pp. 11-16.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, Non destructive Inspection of Airport Taxiways by Multi-Static Array GPR 'YAKUMO'. IEICE technical report, vol.116, no.309, pp: 71-76, 2016.

    Weike Feng, Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, '2D Imaging by Sparse Array Radar System,' IEICE technical report, vol.116, no.309, pp: 65-70, 2016.

    Bo YANG, Lilong Zou, Motoyuki SATO, 'Fundamental Experiment on Passive Bistatic Radar Imaging using TV broadcasting wave,' IEICE technical report, vol.116, no.75, pp:27-32, 2016.

    M. Sato, L. Yi, Y. Iitsuka, Lilong Zou, K. Takahashi, 'Optimization of Antenna Polarization of the Multistatic GPR System 'Yakumo',' International GPR Conference 2016.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Fundamental Study of GB-SAR Imaging by Compressive Sensing,' 2015 IEICE Society Conference, 2015, Sendai, Japan, Sep. 2015.

    Kazunori Takahashi, Lilong Zou, and Motoyuki Sato, 'A long-term monitoring of a landslide slope in Kurihara-city, Miyagi, by GB-SAR,' 2015 IEICE Society Conference, 2015, Sendai, Japan, Sep. 2015.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Fundamental Study of GB-SAR Imaging by Compressive Sensing,' 2015 URSI-Japan Radio Science Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2015.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Detection of Coherent Scatterers by Frequency Interleaved Sub-Images Entropy in GB-SAR,' 8th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, Florence,Italy, July 2015.

    Lilong Zou, Kazunori Takahashi Motoyuki Sato, 'Displacement measurement and monitoring with Ground-Based SAR; case study at Aratozawa,' Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Sendai, Japan, Nov. 2014, pp: 1022-1024.

    Lilong Zou, Kazunori Takahashi Motoyuki Sato, 'Displacement estimation and monitoring from ground-based SAR amplitude components,' Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Sendai, Japan, Nov. 2014, pp: 1327-1329.

    Lilong Zou, Motoyuki Sato, 'Displacement measurement and monitoring with GB-SAR; case study at Aratozawa,' in 21st Remote sensing forum, Japan, pp. 31-42, Feb. 2014.

    Hai Liu, Lilong Zou, Kazunori Takahashi, Motoyuki Sato, Jie Chen, 'Development of an Array GPR System for Large-scale Archaeological Investigations' 11th SEGJ International Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 18-21 November 2013.

    Lilong Zou, Kazinori Takahashi, Motoyuki Sato, 'Fundamental study of observation of landslide by GB-SAR observation; case study at Aratozawa,' IEICE Technical Report, 113(309), pp. 19-24, 2013.

    Lilong Zou, Xuan Feng. 'Developing of polarimetric GPR calibration technique,' Proceedings of the 10th SEGJ International Symposium, 2011.

    Lilong Zou, Xuan Feng. 'Developing of Polarimetric GPR Calibration Technique with High-order Terms,' IEICE Technical Report, 2011.

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