主要研究领域为地理信息科学，包括空间知识表达与挖掘、空间数据智能理解、时空统计与环境应用

1、基于关系语义的空间场景信息理解，国家自然科学基金面上项目，参与，2015.01-2018.12.

2、多尺度空间关系建模与异常检测方法研究，国家自然科学基金面上项目，主持，2012.01-2015.12

3、混合类型数据空间关联统计分析方法及其应用，教育部留学回国人员启动基金，主持，2013.01-2015.12.

4、高分城市生态环境遥感监测示范关键技术研究，国家高分辨率对地观测系统重大专项，主持，2011.01-2012.12.

5、高分辨率矢量与影像数据多尺度分析方法研究，教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划，主持，2011.01-2013.12.

6、尺度敏感的矢量数据跨尺度查询与匹配分析，国家863专题项目，主持，2009.1-2010.12.

7、北京市科技新星计划，北京市科学技术委员会，主持，2009/12-2012/12.

8、影像目标不确定空间关系及其尺度效应研究，国家自然科学基金青年基金，主持，2009.1-2011.12.

9、基于空间关系的遥感图像匹配，中国博士后科学基金项目，主持，2004.

杜世宏著.多尺度空间关系理论与实践.北京：科学出版社，2014.

杜世宏、王桥、秦其明著.空间关系模糊描述与组合推理.北京：科学出版社，2007.

杜世宏、李培军中文导读翻译.遥感与GIS集成：理论、方法与应用（美Weng Qihao著），北京：科学出版社，2011.

Song, J., Du, S.*, Feng, X. The relationships between landscape compositions and land surface temperature: Quantifying their resolution sensitivity with spatial regression models. Landscape and urban planning, 2014, 123: 145–157.

Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Guo, L. Spatially varying relationships between land-cover change and driving factors at multiple sampling scales. Journal of Environmental Management, 2014, 137: 101–110.

Guo, L., Du, S.*, Haining, R., Zhang, L. Global and local indicators of spatial association between points and polygons: a study of land use change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2013, 21(1): 384–396.

Guo, Z., Du, S*. Exploring GIS knowledge to improve building extraction and change detection from VHR imagery in complex urban areas. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 2015, (in press)

Zhang, X., Du, S.*, Wang, Y.-C. Semantic classification of heterogeneous urban scenes using intra-scene feature similarity and inter-scene semantic dependency. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015, (in press)

Du, S.*, Zhang, F., Zhang, X. Semantic classification of urban buildings combining VHR image and GIS data: a random forest approach. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2015, 105: 107-119.

Zhang, F., Du, S.*, Guo, Z. Extracting municipal solid waste dumps based on high resolution images. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2013, 33(8): 2024-2030.

Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C. Integrative representation and inference of qualitative locations about points, lines and polygons. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2015, (in press)

Wang, W., Du, S*. Polygonal clustering analysis using multilevel graph-partition. Transactions in GIS, 2014, (in press)

Du, S*. Analyzing topological changes for structural shape simplification. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2014, 25(4): 316–332.

Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a topology-based model. Transactions in GIS, 2014, 18(4): 604–631.

Du, S.*, Feng, C.-C., Wang, Q. Multi-scale qualitative location: a direction-based model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2013, 41: 151–166.

Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Guo, L. Modeling scale dependencies of topological relations between lines and regions induced by reduction of attributes. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(11): 1649–1686.

Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q. Scale-explicit model for checking directional consistency in multi-resolution spatial data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, 24(3): 465–485.

Du, S.*, Guo, L., Qin, Q. Modeling and querying approximate direction relations. ISPRS Journal Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2010, 65(4): 328–340.

Guo, L., Du, S*. Deriving topological relations between regions from direction relations. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2009, 20(6): 368–384.

Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Efficiently computing and deriving topological relation matrices between complex regions with broad boundaries. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2008, 63(6): 593–609.

Du, S.*, Guo, L., Wang, Q. A model for describing and deriving direction relations between overlapping and contained regions. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(14): 2928–2949.

Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Evaluating structural and topological consistency of complex regions with broad boundaries in multi-resolution spatial databases. Information Sciences, 2008, 178(1): 52–68.

Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Reasoning about topological relations between regions with broad boundaries. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2008, 47(2): 219–232.

Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Ma, H. Description of combined spatial relations between broad boundary regions based on rough set. In: E. Corchado et al. (Eds.): Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4224, pp. 729–737, 2006.

Du, S.*, Qin, Q., Wang, Q., Li, B. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations I: A Unified Fuzzy 9-Intersection Model. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y.S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1261–1273, 2005.

Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Qin, Q., Yang, Y. Fuzzy Description of Topological Relations II: Computation Methods and Examples. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., and Ong, Y. S. (Eds.): Advances in Natural Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3612, 1274–1279, 2005.

Du, S.*, Wang, Q., Qin, Q. Definitions of natural-language spatial relations: combining topology and directions. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2006, 9(1): 58–67.

Du, S., A framework of multi-scale qualitative locations, 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2012), Columbus, OH, USA.

Du, S., Direction-based qualitative locations, Twelfth International Conference on GeoComputation, 2013, Wuhan, China.

Du, S., Modelling spatial association between temples and land-use change, the 18th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK, 2010), London, UK.

公司第十四届青年教师教学基本功比赛理科组二等奖，2014

公司第十四届青年教师教学基本功比赛理科组优秀教案奖，2014

教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划，2010年

北京市科技新星计划A类，2009年

公司正大奖教金优秀奖，2009年

国家测绘科技进步奖二等奖，空间关系模糊描述与模糊空间关联规则挖掘，2008年（第2获奖人）

中国地理信息系统协会2004年学术年会青年优秀论文一等奖，2004

中国地理信息系统协会2003年学术年会青年优秀论文三等奖，2003

2014-至今，中国现场统计研究会空间统计学会理事

2014-至今，国际期刊《International Journal of Image and Data Fusion》特邀编委

2012-至今，中国地理信息系统协会理论与方法专业委员会委员

2007-至今，中文核心期刊《地理与地理信息科学》编委