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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to active and passive microwave remote sensing

Overview

Jiancheng Shi is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use

Jiancheng Shi has published extensively, with frequent venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • National Remote Sensing Bulletin

Throughout their career, Jiancheng Shi has collaborated regularly with several researchers, notably Jie Cheng, Shengyue Dong, Tianjie Zhao, Weihan Liu, and Husi Letu.

Some recent papers published by Jiancheng Shi include:

  • "Soil moisture experiment in the Luan River supporting new satellite mission opportunities," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A New Benchmark for Surface Radiation Products over the East Asia-Pacific Region Retrieved from the Himawari-8/AHI Next-Generation Geostationary Satellite," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Assessment of 24 soil moisture datasets using a new in situ network in the Shandian River Basin of China," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A combined Terra and Aqua MODIS land surface temperature and meteorological station data product for China from 2003 to 2017," 2020, Earth system science data

The scientist has been recognized with notable distinctions, including being named a SPIE Fellow in 2015 and an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to active and passive microwave remote sensing.

Best Publications

  • The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

    Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

  • Emission of rough surfaces calculated by the integral equation method with comparison to three-dimensional moment method simulations

    K.S. Chen;Tzong-Dar Wu;Leung Tsang;Qin Li

  • Estimation of bare surface soil moisture and surface roughness parameter using L-band SAR image data

    Jiancheng Shi;J. Wang;A.Y. Hsu;P.E. O'Neill

  • The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies

    Jun Yang;Peng Gong;Peng Gong;Peng Gong;Rong Fu;Minghua Zhang

  • Improving land surface temperature modeling for dry land of China

    Yingying Chen;Kun Yang;Jie He;Jun Qin

  • The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology.

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew Rodell;Douglas E. Alsdorf;Diego G. Miralles

  • A practical split-window algorithm for retrieving land-surface temperature from MODIS data

    K. Mao;Z. Qin;J. Shi;P. Gong

  • Estimation of snow water equivalence using SIR-C/X-SAR. I. Inferring snow density and subsurface properties

    J. Shi;J. Dozier

  • The hydrosphere State (hydros) Satellite mission: an Earth system pathfinder for global mapping of soil moisture and land freeze/thaw

    D. Entekhabi;E.G. Njoku;P. Houser;M. Spencer

  • Inferring snow wetness using C-band data from SIR-C's polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

    Jiancheng Shi;J. Dozier

  • A transition model for the reflection coefficient in surface scattering

    Tzong-Dar Wu;K.S. Chen;Jiancheng Shi;A.K. Fung

  • Microwave vegetation indices for short vegetation covers from satellite passive microwave sensor AMSR-E

    Jiancheng Shi;Jiancheng Shi;T. Jackson;J. Tao;J. Du

  • A parameterized multifrequency-polarization surface emission model

    Jiancheng Shi;Lingmei Jiang;Lixin Zhang;Kun-Shan Chen

  • High-resolution retrieval of cloud microphysical properties and surface solar radiation using Himawari-8/AHI next-generation geostationary satellite

    Husi Letu;Husi Letu;Kun Yang;Takashi Y. Nakajima;Hiroshi Ishimoto

  • Tests of the SMAP Combined Radar and Radiometer Algorithm Using Airborne Field Campaign Observations and Simulated Data

    Narendra Narayan Das;Dara Entekhabi;Eni G. Njoku;Jiancheng J. C. Shi

  • Snow mapping in alpine regions with synthetic aperture radar

    Jiancheng Shi;J. Dozier;H. Rott

  • A parameterized surface reflectivity model and estimation of bare-surface soil moisture with L-band radiometer

    Jiancheng Shi;K.S. Chen;Qin Li;T.J. Jackson

  • Soil moisture experiment in the Luan River supporting new satellite mission opportunities

    Tianjie Zhao;Jiancheng Shi;Liqing Lv;Hongxin Xu

  • The effect of topography on SAR calibration

    J.J. van Zyl;B.D. Chapman;P. Dubois;J. Shi

  • Assessment of 24 soil moisture datasets using a new in situ network in the Shandian River Basin of China

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  • Physically Based Estimation of Bare-Surface Soil Moisture With the Passive Radiometers

    Jiancheng Shi;Lingmei Jiang;Lixin Zhang;K.S. Chen

  • Estimation of snow water equivalence using SIR-C/X-SAR

    Jiancheng Shi

Frequent Co-Authors

Peggy E. O'Neill
Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Jeff Dozier
Jeff Dozier University of California, Santa Barbara
Juha Lemmetyinen
Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Leung Tsang
Leung Tsang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Huadong Guo
Huadong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
J.J. van Zyl
J.J. van Zyl Jet Propulsion Lab

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