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Dehua Mao is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and primarily conducts research in the field of Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Environmental Changes in China
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Dehua Mao has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • National wetland mapping in China: A new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images (2020) in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Rapid, robust, and automated mapping of tidal flats in China using time series Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution (2023) in Science Bulletin
  • Enhanced mangrove vegetation index based on hyperspectral images for mapping mangrove (2022) in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982-2018 (2022) in Global Change Biology

The scientist has frequently published work in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Among frequent collaborators, Dehua Mao has co-authored multiple works with Zongming Wang, Mingming Jia, Hengxing Xiang, Kaishan Song, and Xiaoyan Li.

Best Publications

  • National wetland mapping in China: A new product resulting from object-based and hierarchical classification of Landsat 8 OLI images

    Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Baojia Du;Lin Li

  • China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

    Dehua Mao;Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Jianguo Wu;Jianguo Wu;Bingfang Wu

  • Integrating AVHRR and MODIS data to monitor NDVI changes and their relationships with climatic parameters in Northeast China

    Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Ling Luo;Chunying Ren

  • Mapping global distribution of mangrove forests at 10-m resolution.

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  • Diverse policies leading to contrasting impacts on land cover and ecosystem services in Northeast China

    Dehua Mao;Xingyuan He;Zongming Wang;Yanlin Tian

  • Monitoring loss and recovery of mangrove forests during 42 years: The achievements of mangrove conservation in China

    Mingming Jia;Zongming Wang;Yuanzhi Zhang;Yuanzhi Zhang;Dehua Mao

  • Rapid, robust, and automated mapping of tidal flats in China using time series Sentinel-2 images and Google Earth Engine

    Mingming Jia;Zongming Wang;Dehua Mao;Chunying Ren

  • Enhanced mangrove vegetation index based on hyperspectral images for mapping mangrove

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  • Conversions between natural wetlands and farmland in China: A multiscale geospatial analysis.

    Dehua Mao;Ling Luo;Zongming Wang;Maxwell C. Wilson

  • Rapid expansion of coastal aquaculture ponds in China from Landsat observations during 1984–2016

    Chunying Ren;Chunying Ren;Zongming Wang;Yuanzhi Zhang;Yuanzhi Zhang;Bai Zhang

  • A New Vegetation Index to Detect Periodically Submerged Mangrove Forest Using Single-Tide Sentinel-2 Imagery

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  • Rapid Invasion of Spartina alterniflora in the Coastal Zone of Mainland China: New Observations from Landsat OLI Images

    Mingyue Liu;Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Lin Li

  • Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018

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  • Land degradation and restoration in the arid and semiarid zones of China: Quantified evidence and implications from satellites

    Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Bingfang Wu;Yuan Zeng

  • Quantifying changes in multiple ecosystem services during 1992–2012 in the Sanjiang Plain of China

    Zongming Wang;Dehua Mao;Lin Li;Mingming Jia

  • Identifying spatial similarities and mismatches between supply and demand of ecosystem services for sustainable Northeast China

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  • Interannual changes of coastal aquaculture ponds in China at 10-m spatial resolution during 2016–2021

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  • Rapid Invasion of Spartina Alterniflora in the Coastal Zone of Mainland China: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Human Prevention

    Dehua Mao;Mingyue Liu;Mingyue Liu;Zongming Wang;Lin Li

  • China's Wetlands: conservation plans and policy impacts.

    Zongming Wang;Jianguo Wu;Marguerite Madden;Dehua Mao

  • Invasion of Spartina alterniflora in the coastal zone of mainland China: Control achievements from 2015 to 2020 towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

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  • Soil organic carbon in the Sanjiang Plain of China: storage, distribution and controlling factors

    D. H. Mao;Z. M. Wang;L. Li;Z. H. Miao

  • Mapping China's mangroves based on an object-oriented classification of Landsat imagery

    Mingming Jia;Zongming Wang;Lin Li;Kaishan Song

  • What did China's National Wetland Conservation Program Achieve?Observations of changes in land cover and ecosystem services in the Sanjiang Plain.

    Hengxing Xiang;Zongming Wang;Dehua Mao;Jian Zhang

  • Dual threat of tidal flat loss and invasive Spartina alterniflora endanger important shorebird habitat in coastal mainland China.

    Micha V. Jackson;Richard A. Fuller;Xiaojing Gan;Jing Li

  • Tracking long-term floodplain wetland changes: A case study in the China side of the Amur River Basin

    Mingming Jia;Dehua Mao;Zongming Wang;Chunying Ren

  • Spatial-temporal changes of China’s mangrove forests over the past 50 years: An analysis towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    Mingming Jia;Zongming Wang;Dehua Mao;Chunlin Huang

  • Climate Change Affected Vegetation Dynamics in the Northern Xinjiang of China: Evaluation by SPEI and NDVI

    Nana Luo;Dehua Mao;Bolong Wen;Xingtu Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Zongming Wang
Zongming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Li
Lin Li Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Kaishan Song
Kaishan Song Liaocheng University
Jianguo Wu
Jianguo Wu Arizona State University
Bingfang Wu
Bingfang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changchun Song
Changchun Song Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bin Chen
Bin Chen Beijing Normal University
Hong Yang
Hong Yang University of Reading
Julian R. Thompson
Julian R. Thompson University College London
Richard A. Fuller
Richard A. Fuller University of Queensland

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