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Overview

Bailang Yu is affiliated with East China Normal University in China. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with substantial work in subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, transportation, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including the impact of light on environment and health, land use and ecosystem services, urban heat island mitigation, urban transport and accessibility, remote sensing in agriculture, cryospheric studies and observations, and urban green space and health.

Frequent publication venues for Bailang Yu include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, reflecting a broad and consistent network within their research community. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Zuoqi Chen
  • Bin Wu
  • Jianping Wu
  • Chengshu Yang
  • Yuyu Zhou

Selected recent publications by Bailang Yu illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "An extended time series (2000-2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration", 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "Exploring the relationship between 2D/3D landscape pattern and land surface temperature based on explainable eXtreme Gradient Boosting tree: A case study of Shanghai, China", 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Identifying and evaluating poverty using multisource remote sensing and point of interest (POI) data: A case study of Chongqing, China", 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Effects of urban forms on CO2 emissions in China from a multi-perspective analysis", 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "The potential of nighttime light remote sensing data to evaluate the development of digital economy: A case study of China at the city level", 2021, Computers Environment and Urban Systems

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data

    Kaifang Shi;Bailang Yu;Yixiu Huang;Yingjie Hu

  • An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration

    Zuoqi Chen;Bailang Yu;Chengshu Yang;Yuyu Zhou

  • Evaluation of NPP-VIIRS night-time light composite data for extracting built-up urban areas

    Kaifang Shi;Chang Huang;Bailang Yu;Bing Yin

  • Extracting and understanding urban areas of interest using geotagged photos

    Yingjie Hu;Song Gao;Krzysztof Janowicz;Bailang Yu

  • Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Min Zhao;Yuyu Zhou;Xuecao Li;Wenting Cao

  • Modeling spatiotemporal CO2 (carbon dioxide) emission dynamics in China from DMSP-OLS nighttime stable light data using panel data analysis

    Kaifang Shi;Kaifang Shi;Yun Chen;Bailang Yu;Tingbao Xu

  • Detecting spatiotemporal dynamics of global electric power consumption using DMSP-OLS nighttime stable light data

    Kaifang Shi;Kaifang Shi;Yun Chen;Bailang Yu;Tingbao Xu

  • Poverty Evaluation Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data at the County Level in China

    Bailang Yu;Kaifang Shi;Yingjie Hu;Chang Huang

  • Automated derivation of urban building density information using airborne LiDAR data and object-based method

    Bailang Yu;Hongxing Liu;Jianping Wu;Yingjie Hu

  • A Voxel-Based Method for Automated Identification and Morphological Parameters Estimation of Individual Street Trees from Mobile Laser Scanning Data

    Bin Wu;Bailang Yu;Wenhui Yue;Song Shu

  • A New Approach for Detecting Urban Centers and Their Spatial Structure With Nighttime Light Remote Sensing

    Zuoqi Chen;Bailang Yu;Wei Song;Hongxing Liu

  • Object-based spatial cluster analysis of urban landscape pattern using nighttime light satellite images: a case study of China

    Bailang Yu;Song Shu;Hongxing Liu;Wei Song

  • Exploring the relationship between 2D/3D landscape pattern and land surface temperature based on explainable eXtreme Gradient Boosting tree: A case study of Shanghai, China.

    Siyi Yu;Zuoqi Chen;Bailang Yu;Lei Wang

  • Spatiotemporal variations of CO2 emissions and their impact factors in China: A comparative analysis between the provincial and prefectural levels

    Kaifang Shi;Bailang Yu;Yuyu Zhou;Yun Chen

  • Estimation of Poverty Using Random Forest Regression with Multi-Source Data: A Case Study in Bangladesh

    Xizhi Zhao;Bailang Yu;Yan Liu;Zuoqi Chen

  • View-based greenery: A three-dimensional assessment of city buildings' green visibility using Floor Green View Index

    Siyi Yu;Bailang Yu;Wei Song;Bin Wu

  • Mapping annual urban dynamics (1985–2015) using time series of Landsat data

    Xuecao Li;Yuyu Zhou;Zhengyuan Zhu;Lu Liang

  • Estimating House Vacancy Rate in Metropolitan Areas Using NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data

    Zuoqi Chen;Bailang Yu;Yingjie Hu;Chang Huang

  • Urban Built-Up Area Extraction From Log- Transformed NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Composite Data

    Bailang Yu;Min Tang;Qiusheng Wu;Chengshu Yang

  • Normalization of time series DMSP-OLS nighttime light images for urban growth analysis with Pseudo Invariant Features

    Ye Wei;Hongxing Liu;Wei Song;Bailang Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianping Wu
Jianping Wu East China Normal University
Hongxing Liu
Hongxing Liu University of Alabama
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Kenneth M. Hinkel
Kenneth M. Hinkel Michigan Technological University
Krzysztof Janowicz
Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, Santa Barbara
Frédéric Frappart
Frédéric Frappart Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Xia Li
Xia Li East China Normal University
Xuecao Li
Xuecao Li China Agricultural University
Christopher Small
Christopher Small Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher D. Elvidge
Christopher D. Elvidge Colorado School of Mines

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