Professor, Geoinformatics,  HFT Stuttgart, Germany

Senior Software Engineer & Product Owner, Virtual City Systems GmbH, Munich, Germany

Dr.-Ing., Geoinformatics, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

M.Sc., Geodesy and Geoinformation System, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

B.Eng., Geodesy and Geoinformation System, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Kutzner, Tatjana; Smyth, Carl; Nagel, Claus; Coors, Volker; Vinasco-Alvarez, Diego; Ishimaru, Nobuhiro; Yao, Zhihang; Heazel, Charles; Kolbe, Thomas H: OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Version 3.0 Part 2: GML Encoding Standard – International Standard, OGC Document No. 21-006r2. Open Geospatial Consortium, 2023

Chaturvedi, Kanishk; Yao, Zhihang; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Integrated Management and Visualization of Static and Dynamic Properties of Semantic 3D City Models. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities (ISPRS Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences), ISPRS , 2019

Nguyen, Son H.; Yao, Zhihang; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Spatio-Semantic Comparison of Large 3D City Models in CityGML Using a Graph Database. gis.Science (3/2018), 2018, 85-100

Yao, Zhihang; Nagel, Claus; Kunde, Felix; Hudra, György; Willkomm, Philipp; Donaubauer, Andreas; Adolphi, Thomas; Kolbe, Thomas H.: 3DCityDB - a 3D geodatabase solution for the management, analysis, and visualization of semantic 3D city models based on CityGML. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards 3 (5), 2018, 1-26.

Yao, Zhihang; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Dynamically Extending Spatial Databases to support CityGML Application Domain Extensions using Graph Transformations. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V., 2017, 316-331.

Yao, Zhihang; Chaturvedi, Kanishk; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Browser-basierte Visualisierung großer 3D-Stadtmodelle durch Erweiterung des Cesium Web Globe. Geoinformationssysteme 2016 - Beiträge zur 3. Münchner GI-Runde, Wichmann Verlag, 2016, 77-89.

Yao, Zhihang; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Cloud-basierter Webclient für kollaboratives Arbeiten auf semantischen 3D-Stadtmodellen. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation e.V., 2014.

Yao, Zhihang; Sindram, Maximilian; Kaden, Robert; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Cloud-basierter 3D-Webclient zur kollaborativen Planung energetischer Maßnahmen am Beispiel von Berlin und London. In: Kolbe, Thomas H.; Bill, Ralf; Donaubauer, Andreas (Hrsg.): Geoinformationssysteme 2014. Wichmann, 2014.