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Overview

Man Sing Wong is affiliated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions spanning several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, and Building and Construction.

Their research themes cover a range of interrelated topics, including:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Recent notable publications by Man Sing Wong include:

  • "Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy-A Review," 2020, Water
  • "Environmental impacts of shifts in energy, emissions, and urban heat island during the COVID-19 lockdown across Pakistan," 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "The effect of urban morphology on the solar capacity of three-dimensional cities," 2020, Renewable Energy
  • "Identifying the space-time patterns of COVID-19 risk and their associations with different built environment features in Hong Kong," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Investigating the Relationship between the Built Environment and Relative Risk of COVID-19 in Hong Kong," 2020, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Rui Zhu
  • Sawaid Abbas
  • Coco Yin Tung Kwok
  • Majid Nazeer
  • Mei-Po Kwan

Their publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Urban Climate

Best Publications

  • Satellite remote sensing for detailed landslide inventories using change detection and image fusion

    Janet Elizabeth Nichol;Man Sing Wong

  • A simple method for designation of urban ventilation corridors and its application to urban heat island analysis

    Man Sing Wong;Janet E. Nichol;Pui Hang To;Jingzhi Wang

  • Urban heat island diagnosis using ASTER satellite images and 'in situ' air temperature

    Janet Elizabeth Nichol;Wing Yee Fung;Ka Se Lam;Man Sing Wong

  • Modeling urban environmental quality in a tropical city

    Janet Elizabeth Nichol;Man Sing Wong

  • Application of high-resolution satellite images to detailed landslide hazard assessment

    Janet Nichol;Man Sing Wong;Ahmed Shaker

  • Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A Review

    Fatma Balany;Anne W.M. Ng;Nitin Muttil;Shobha Muthukumaran

  • Comparison of machine learning algorithms for retrieval of water quality indicators in case-II waters : a case study of Hong Kong

    Sidrah Hafeez;Man Sing Wong;Hung Chak Ho;Majid Nazeer

  • Evaluation of machine learning techniques with multiple remote sensing datasets in estimating monthly concentrations of ground-level PM2.5.

    Yongming Xu;Hung Chak Ho;Man Sing Wong;Chengbin Deng

  • Aerosol single scattering albedo estimated across China from a combination of ground and satellite measurements

    Kwon Ho Lee;Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Man Sing Wong;Jinyuan Xin

  • Carbon footprint analyses of mainstream wastewater treatment technologies under different sludge treatment scenarios in China.

    Chunyan Chai;Dawei Zhang;Yanling Yu;Yujie Feng

  • A study of the " wall effect" caused by proliferation of high-rise buildings using GIS techniques

    Man Sing Wong;Janet Elizabeth Nichol;Edward Ng

  • Estimation of Hong Kong's solar energy potential using GIS and remote sensing technologies

    Man Sing Wong;Rui Zhu;Zhizhao Liu;Lin Lu

  • A multi-sensor study of water vapour from radiosonde, MODIS and AERONET: a case study of Hong Kong

    Zhizhao Liu;Man Sing Wong;Janet Elizabeth Nichol;P. W. Chan

  • Environmental impacts of shifts in energy, emissions, and urban heat island during the COVID-19 lockdown across Pakistan

    Ghaffar Ali;Sawaid Abbas;Faisal Mueen Qamer;Man Sing Wong

  • The effect of urban morphology on the solar capacity of three-dimensional cities

    Rui Zhu;Rui Zhu;Man Sing Wong;Linlin You;Paolo Santi

  • Wind weakening in a dense high-rise city due to over nearly five decades of urbanization

    Lei Peng;Jiaping Liu;Yi Wang;Pak Wai Chan

  • Trans-boundary aerosol transport during a winter haze episode in China revealed by ground-based Lidar and CALIPSO satellite

    Kai Qin;Lixin Wu;Man Sing Wong;Husi Letu

  • Spatial variability of frontal area index and its relationship with urban heat island intensity

    Man Sing Wong;JanetE. Nichol

  • Modeling the effective emissivity of the urban canopy using sky view factor

    Jinxin Yang;Man Sing Wong;Massimo Menenti;Janet Elizabeth Nichol

  • Identifying the space-time patterns of COVID-19 risk and their associations with different built environment features in Hong Kong.

    Zihan Kan;Mei Po Kwan;Man Sing Wong;Jianwei Huang

  • Detection and interpretation of landslides using satellite images

    Janet Elizabeth Nichol;Man Sing Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet E. Nichol
Janet E. Nichol University of Sussex
Pak Wai Chan
Pak Wai Chan Hong Kong Observatory
Mei-Po Kwan
Mei-Po Kwan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Wenzhong Shi
Wenzhong Shi Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
James R. Campbell
James R. Campbell United States Naval Research Laboratory
Xiaolin Zhu
Xiaolin Zhu Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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