Nattapon Jaroenchai, Ph.D.
Lecturer & Researcher | GeoAI, CyberGIS, Remote Sensing
Research Interests
CyberGIS and High-Performance Computing
Researching and developing advanced geospatial software ecosystems for planetary-scale data synthesis.
Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)
Integrating artificial intelligence with earth observation technologies to automate spatial problem-solving.
Spatial Analysis
Quantifying spatial relationships and dynamic geographic phenomena to support data-driven decision-making.
Education
Ph.D. in Geography
Master of Science in Geography and Geographic Information Science
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering
Selected Publications
Journals
Saxton, A., Luo, S., Bode, A., Kramer, W., Zhu, X., Dong, J., ... & Kooper, R. (2024, December). Accurate Polygonal Feature Extraction from Historical Geologic Maps using Prompted Segmentation. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2024, pp. SY24A-03). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AGUFMSY24A..03S/abstract
Saxton, A., Dong, J., Bode, A., Jaroenchai, N., Kooper, R., Zhu, X., … Luo, S. (2024, November 13). Accurate Feature Extraction from Historical Geologic Maps Using Open-Set Segmentation and Detection. Geosciences. MDPI AG. 10.3390/geosciences14110305
Jaroenchai, N., Wang, S., Stanislawski, L. V., Shavers, E., Jiang, Z., Sagan, V., & Usery, E. L. (2024, October). Transfer learning with convolutional neural networks for hydrological streamline delineation. Environmental Modelling & Software. Elsevier BV. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106165
Xu, Z., Wang, S., Stanislawski, L. V., Jiang, Z., Jaroenchai, N., Sainju, A. M., … Su, B. (2021, June). An attention U-Net model for detection of fine-scale hydrologic streamlines. Environmental Modelling & Software. Elsevier BV. 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.104992
Conferences
Stanislawski, L., Qin, R., Liu, J. K., Shavers, E., Wang, S., Jaroenchai, N., & Thiem, P. (2025, December 15). Multi-temporal surface water mapping with high-resolution elevation and image data through weakly supervised deep learning. Abstracts of the ICA. Copernicus GmbH. 10.5194/ica-abs-10-275-2025
Wang, S., Baig, F., Kang, Y., Li, E., Michels, A., Jaroenchai, N., … Tarboton, D. (2025, July 18). I-GUIDE Platform for Geospatial Data-intensive Convergence Research and Education. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration. ACM. 10.1145/3708035.3736108
Vandewalle, R., Michels, A., Li, Z., Jaroenchai, N., & Wang, S. (2024). Building Blocks for Geospatial Software Education Using the I-GUIDE Platform. I-GUIDE Forum 2024: Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability. Purdue University Library Publishing. 10.5703/1288284317803
Stanislawski, L. V., Shavers, E. J., Duffy, A. J., Thiem, P., Jaroenchai, N., Wang, S., … Buttenfield, B. P. (2022, August 6). Scaling-Up Deep Learning Predictions Of Hydrography From Ifsar Data In Alaska. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Copernicus GmbH. 10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w1-2022-449-2022
Professional Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
- Conducted research and collborated with USGS to improve the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) generation process
- Created website for I-GUIDE project
- Managed the Spatial AI Challeng 2024-2025
- Served as the local organizing chair in I-GUIDE Forum 2025
Product Associate
- Gathered software requirements from over ten business partners, prioritized and submitted the requirements to the development team in Singapore
- Initiated and managed a system integration process between Garena Thailand and Tesco Lotus to sell Garena electronics cash (shells) in Tesco Lotus
- Held four business partner accounts and facilitate the communication of both IT and business aspects resulting in revenue over 15,000$ per month
menu_book Teaching
Data Structure (SC 350 002)
ศึกษาหลักการจัดเก็บและจัดการข้อมูลอย่างเป็นระบบ Learn to design efficient algorithms and choose the right data structures to write faster, cleaner, and more scalable code.
groups Service
- Journal Reviewer: Environmental Modelling & Software