2026 Shunlin Liang: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	110	198	185	21	21	637	49116

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to remote sensing from satellite observations

Overview

Shunlin Liang is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work covers key topics including remote sensing in agriculture, urban heat island mitigation, climate variability and models, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, cryospheric studies and observations, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Frequently, Shunlin Liang collaborates with several researchers, notably Tao He, Dongdong Wang, Han Ma, Aolin Jia, and Jianglei Xu. Their frequent publication venues reflect a strong emphasis on remote sensing and geoscience, including:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Environment
Remote Sensing
SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent published papers include:

The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015, 2020, Earth System Science Data
Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982-2017, 2020, Earth System Science Data
A practical reanalysis data and thermal infrared remote sensing data merging (RTM) method for reconstruction of a 1-km all-weather land surface temperature, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
Development of the GLASS 250-m leaf area index product (version 6) from MODIS data using the bidirectional LSTM deep learning model, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Shunlin Liang was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to remote sensing from satellite observations.

Best Publications

First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS

Crystal B Schaaf;Feng Gao;Alan H Strahler;Wolfgang Lucht

2889
Citations
Narrowband to broadband conversions of land surface albedo I Algorithms

Shunlin Liang

1685
Citations
Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Shunlin Liang

1403
Citations
Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

1122
Citations
Time‐lag effects of global vegetation responses to climate change

Donghai Wu;Xiang Zhao;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Tao Zhou;Tao Zhou

1010
Citations
Use of General Regression Neural Networks for Generating the GLASS Leaf Area Index Product From Time-Series MODIS Surface Reflectance

Zhiqiang Xiao;Shunlin Liang;Jindi Wang;Ping Chen

774
Citations
The role of satellite remote sensing in climate change studies

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

624
Citations
A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

Shunlin Liang;Xiang Zhao;Suhong Liu;Wenping Yuan

571
Citations
Atmospheric correction of Landsat ETM+ land surface imagery. I. Methods

S. Liang;H. Fang;M. Chen

565
Citations
The Global Land Surface Satellite (GLASS) Product Suite

Shunlin Liang;Jie Cheng;Kun Jia;Bo Jiang

540
Citations
Assimilation of remote sensing into crop growth models: Current status and perspectives

Jianxi Huang;Jose L. Gómez-Dans;Hai Huang;Hongyuan Ma

474
Citations
Validating MODIS land surface reflectance and albedo products: methods and preliminary results

Shunlin Liang;Hongliang Fang;Mingzhen Chen;Chad J Shuey

470
Citations
The altitudinal dependence of recent rapid warming over the Tibetan Plateau

Jun Qin;Kun Yang;Shunlin Liang;Xiaofeng Guo

444
Citations
Long-Time-Series Global Land Surface Satellite Leaf Area Index Product Derived From MODIS and AVHRR Surface Reflectance

Zhiqiang Xiao;Shunlin Liang;Jindi Wang;Yang Xiang

439
Citations
Improving winter wheat yield estimation by assimilation of the leaf area index from Landsat TM and MODIS data into the WOFOST model

Jianxi Huang;Liyan Tian;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Hongyuan Ma

436
Citations
Clear sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007.

Kaicun Wang;Robert E. Dickinson;Shunlin Liang

406
Citations
Earth system science related imaging spectroscopy — an assessment

Michael E. Schaepman;Michael E. Schaepman;Susan L. Ustin;Antonio J. Plaza;Thomas H. Painter

395
Citations
Advanced remote sensing : terrestrial information extraction and applications

Shunlin Liang;Xiaowen Li;Jindi Wang

385
Citations
Review on Estimation of Land Surface Radiation and Energy Budgets From Ground Measurement, Remote Sensing and Model Simulations

Shunlin Liang;Kaicun Wang;Xiaotong Zhang;M Wild

383
Citations
Narrowband to broadband conversions of land surface albedo: II. Validation

Shunlin Liang;Chad J Shuey;Andrew L Russ;Hongliang Fang

357
Citations
Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015

Han Liu;Peng Gong;Jie Wang;Jie Wang;Nicholas Clinton

356
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaicun Wang Beijing Normal University

Hongliang Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Alan H. Strahler Boston University

Wenping Yuan Sun Yat-sen University

Yunyue Yu National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Xiaowen Li Tsinghua University

Shaomin Liu Beijing Normal University

John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park

Jun Qin Baylor College of Medicine

Jiquan Chen Michigan State University

External Links

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