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48
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10912
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5449
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1994

Overview

Kaiguang Zhao is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States and engages primarily in environmental science research. Their work encompasses a variety of fields related to environmental dynamics, with a focus on applying remote sensing and modeling techniques to ecological and climatic challenges.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study Kaiguang Zhao contributes to are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry

Their work covers several specialized research topics listed as:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models

Kaiguang Zhao has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Environmental Modelling & Software

Recent papers by Kaiguang Zhao demonstrate a breadth of research interests and include:

  • "Increasing global urban exposure to flooding: An analysis of long-term annual dynamics," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Quantifying the response of surface urban heat island to urbanization using the annual temperature cycle model," 2021, Geoscience Frontiers
  • "Crop yield prediction via explainable AI and interpretable machine learning: Dangers of black box models for evaluating climate change impacts on crop yield," 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Climate change impacts on crop yields: A review of empirical findings, statistical crop models, and machine learning methods," 2024, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Mapping fine-scale human disturbances in a working landscape with Landsat time series on Google Earth Engine," 2021, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Kaiguang Zhao collaborates regularly with a number of peers, including:

  • Yuyu Zhou
  • Tongxi Hu
  • Xuesong Zhang
  • Yang Li
  • Sami Khanal

Best Publications

  • Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction

    Robert B. Jackson;Avner Vengosh;Thomas H. Darrah;Nathaniel R. Warner

  • Ground Filtering Algorithms for Airborne LiDAR Data: A Review of Critical Issues

    Xuelian Meng;Nathan Currit;Kaiguang Zhao

  • Geochemical evidence for possible natural migration of Marcellus Formation brine to shallow aquifers in Pennsylvania

    Nathaniel R. Warner;Robert B. Jackson;Thomas H. Darrah;Stephen G. Osborn

  • Lidar remote sensing of forest biomass : A scale-invariant estimation approach using airborne lasers

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu;Ross Nelson

  • Detecting change-point, trend, and seasonality in satellite time series data to track abrupt changes and nonlinear dynamics: A Bayesian ensemble algorithm

    Kaiguang Zhao;Kaiguang Zhao;Michael A. Wulder;Tongxi Hu;Ryan Bright

  • A voxel-based lidar method for estimating crown base height for deciduous and pine trees

    Sorin C. Popescu;Kaiguang Zhao

  • Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

    Ryan M. Bright;Edouard Léopold Davin;Thomas O'Halloran;Julia Pongratz

  • A cluster-based method to map urban area from DMSP/OLS nightlights

    Yuyu Zhou;Steven J. Smith;Christopher Elvidge;Kaiguang Zhao

  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: Methane leaks across Boston

    Nathan G. Phillips;Robert C. Ackley;Eric R. Crosson;Adrian Down

  • A global map of urban extent from nightlights

    Yuyu Zhou;Steven J. Smith;Kaiguang Zhao;Marc L. Imhoff

  • Lidar-based mapping of leaf area index and its use for validating GLOBCARBON satellite LAI product in a temperate forest of the southern USA

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu

  • Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks Across Washington, DC

    Robert B. Jackson;Adrian Down;Nathan G. Phillips;Robert C. Ackley

  • Utility of multitemporal lidar for forest and carbon monitoring: Tree growth, biomass dynamics, and carbon flux

    Kaiguang Zhao;Juan C. Suarez;Mariano Garcia;Tongxi Hu

  • Satellite lidar vs. small footprint airborne lidar: Comparing the accuracy of aboveground biomass estimates and forest structure metrics at footprint level

    Sorin C. Popescu;Kaiguang Zhao;Amy L Neuenschwander;Chinsu Lin

  • Analysis of driver injury severity in rural single-vehicle crashes

    Yuanchang Xie;Kaiguang Zhao;Nathan Huynh

  • Evaluation of global optimization algorithms for parameter calibration of a computationally intensive hydrologic model

    Xuesong Zhang;Raghavan Srinivasan;Kaiguang Zhao;Mike Van Liew

  • Quantifying surface albedo and other direct biogeophysical climate forcings of forestry activities.

    Ryan M. Bright;Ryan M. Bright;Kaiguang Zhao;Robert B. Jackson;Francesco Cherubini

  • Characterizing forest canopy structure with lidar composite metrics and machine learning

    Kaiguang Zhao;Sorin Popescu;Xuelian Meng;Yong Pang

  • Biophysical forcings of land-use changes from potential forestry activities in North America

    Kaiguang Zhao;Robert B. Jackson

  • Integrating LiDAR data and multi-temporal aerial imagery to map wetland inundation dynamics using Google Earth Engine.

    Qiusheng Wu;Charles R. Lane;Xuecao Li;Kaiguang Zhao

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of plant biochemistry using Bayesian model averaging with variable and band selection

    Kaiguang Zhao;Denis Valle;Sorin Popescu;Xuesong Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuesong Zhang
Xuesong Zhang Agricultural Research Service
Sorin C. Popescu
Sorin C. Popescu Texas A&M University
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Yuyu Zhou
Yuyu Zhou Iowa State University
Jiancheng Shi
Jiancheng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Riaño
David Riaño Spanish National Research Council
Allison M. Thomson
Allison M. Thomson University of Maryland, College Park
Ghassem R. Asrar
Ghassem R. Asrar Universities Space Research Association
Qinghua Guo
Qinghua Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roberto C. Izaurralde
Roberto C. Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park

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