2026 Hui Lin: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	56	4121	4006	550	547	334	10966
Environmental Sciences	59	3099	2965	316	312	338	12484

Overview

Hui Lin is affiliated with Jiangxi Normal University in China and specializes in environmental science with a focus on remote sensing and ecosystem studies. Their research covers a range of subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably remote sensing in agriculture, land use and ecosystem services, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, forest ecology and management, cryospheric studies and observations, and landslides and related hazards.

They have contributed to multiple publications across several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

Remote Sensing
Ecological Indicators
Remote Sensing of Environment
International Journal of Digital Earth
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Some of their recent papers are:

"Evaluation and analysis of ecosystem service value based on land use/cover change in Dongting Lake wetland" (2022, Ecological Indicators)
"Mapping wetland using the object-based stacked generalization method based on multi-temporal optical and SAR data" (2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation)
"Analyzing the spatiotemporal pattern and driving factors of wetland vegetation changes using 2000-2019 time-series Landsat data" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
"Mapping the vegetation distribution and dynamics of a wetland using adaptive-stacking and Google Earth Engine based on multi-source remote sensing data" (2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation)
"Incorporating synthetic aperture radar and optical images to investigate the annual dynamics of anthropogenic impervious surface at large scale" (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)

Hui Lin collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Jiangping Long, Meng Zhang, Peifeng Ma, Zilin Ye, and Min Huang. These collaborations have resulted in a significant number of joint publications.

Best Publications

Measuring human perceptions of a large-scale urban region using machine learning

Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Bolei Zhou;Liu Liu;Yu Liu

708
Citations
Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation maxima during 1960-2005 in the Yangtze River basin and possible association with large-scale circulation

Qiang Zhang;Qiang Zhang;Qiang Zhang;Chong-Yu Xu;Chong-Yu Xu;Zengxin Zhang;Yongqin David Chen

422
Citations
Sustainable land use optimization using Boundary-based Fast Genetic Algorithm

Kai Cao;Kai Cao;Kai Cao;Bo Huang;Shaowen Wang;Hui Lin

325
Citations
Reflections and speculations on the progress in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): a geographic perspective

Guonian Lü;Michael Batty;Josef Strobl;Hui Lin

278
Citations
Virtual Geographic Environments (VGEs): A New Generation of Geographic Analysis Tool

Hui Lin;Min Chen;Guonian Lu;Qing Zhu

254
Citations
Improving the impervious surface estimation with combined use of optical and SAR remote sensing images

Yuanzhi Zhang;Yuanzhi Zhang;Hongsheng Zhang;Hui Lin

254
Citations
A review of urban physical environment sensing using street view imagery in public health studies

Yuhao Kang;Fan Zhang;Song Gao;Hui Lin

250
Citations
Urban morphology detection and computation for urban climate research

Yong Xu;Chao Ren;Peifeng Ma;Justin Ho

245
Citations
Agent-based simulation of building evacuation

Lu Tan;Mingyuan Hu;Hui Lin

236
Citations
Shanghai subway tunnels and highways monitoring through Cosmo-SkyMed Persistent Scatterers

Daniele Perissin;Zhiying Wang;Hui Lin

222
Citations
Speciated OVOC and VOC emission inventories and their implications for reactivity-based ozone control strategy in the Pearl River Delta region, China.

Jiamin Ou;Junyu Zheng;Rongrong Li;Xiaobo Huang

202
Citations
Virtual Geographic Environment – A Workspace for Computer-aided Geographic Experiments

Hui Lin;Min Chen;Guonian Lu

190
Citations
Land use projections in China under global socioeconomic and emission scenarios: Utilizing a scenario-based land-use change assessment framework

Na Dong;Lan You;Wenjia Cai;Gang Li

184
Citations
Virtual Geographic Environments

Min Chen;Min Chen;Hui Lin;Guonian Lu

164
Citations
Mapping Paddy Rice Using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Landsat 8 Datasets in the Dongting Lake Area, China

Meng Zhang;Hui Lin;Guangxing Wang;Hua Sun

156
Citations
Interaction between permafrost and infrastructure along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway detected via jointly analysis of C- and L-band small baseline SAR interferometry

Fulong Chen;Hui Lin;Zhen Li;Quan Chen

147
Citations
Monitoring Sugarcane Growth Using ENVISAT ASAR Data

Hui Lin;Jinsong Chen;Zhiyuan Pei;Songling Zhang

146
Citations
Representing place locales using scene elements

Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Ding Zhang;Yu Liu;Hui Lin

145
Citations
Application of ENVISAT ASAR Data in Mapping Rice Crop Growth in Southern China

Jinsong Chen;Hui Lin;Zhiyuan Pei

143
Citations
Textural–Spectral Feature-Based Species Classification of Mangroves in Mai Po Nature Reserve from Worldview-3 Imagery

Ting Wang;Hongsheng Zhang;Hui Lin;Chaoyang Fang

143
Citations
Formalizing fuzzy objects from uncertain classification results

Tao Cheng;Martien Molenaar;Hui Lin

130
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Chen South China University of Technology

Mingsheng Liao Wuhan University

Guangxing Wang Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Ting Wang Washington University in St. Louis

Gang Li Chinese University of Hong Kong

Quanan Zheng University of Maryland, College Park

Olaf Kolditz TU Dresden

Wei Ji Renmin University of China

Jianya Gong Wuhan University

A-Xing Zhu University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

Personal website of Hui Lin Google Scholar page

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